ic contact (mask or menace)

[hackitude]

"Hey! You've reached Skye. Leave a message. I mean, if you want to. Or uh, don't. Whatever."

Comments

[hackitude]

Dude. Just use Times New Roman. Or Helvetica, if you have a Mac. They're very sensible fonts, I promise. No flowers.

[infomodder]

Why does it matter? It's not wingdings. It's readable. It's basic. If they come to my class the last thing they should be worried about is font. This isn't a college course in geography.

We all have Macs.

[hackitude]

... You're right. Of course, silly me. You just... keep on keeping on, Mr. G. You use that Comic Sans. You use it good.

Also obligatory "ewwwww macs" comment.

[infomodder]

I don't have to use it here. Do you want me to make you a Comic Sans-riddled powerpoint presentation on something? Variations on stain coloration and what it means?

I don't own a computer. I just use the ones we have at work.

[hackitude]

Awwwww. You would do that? For me?

God you are so out of date though. You're like a fossil.

[infomodder]

I'm sure I could find enough pictures of various types of liquids and bodily fluids staining clothing to make a presentation. If that's what you'd like, yes.

[no skye no pick something else pick dogs or fish something cute to avert from the comic sansbomination]

I don't have a TV, either.

I only have my phone because I need it for work.

There's a difference between a hermit, you could say, and a fossil.

[hackitude]

I'll let you choose the topic. Surprise me.

I don't know. Is it possible you can be both?

[infomodder]

[Dogs. It'll be dogs that are good in the water.]

I'll see what I can come up with.

Is it possible I can just be someone who doesn't use regular technology because I don't like it without it making me old? Can't that just be part of me being me? If I felt the same way and was 18, what then?

[hackitude]

Looking forward to it.

... I guess. But where's the fun in that? What would I tease you about then?

[infomodder]

["I'll cook up something special" is not what a guy accused of cannibalism says to someone who knows as much.]

I'll have to spend extra time on it.

Plaid? Stupid fishing hats? I don't get teased back home. I don't talk to many people. It's all really strange for me, having to interact with people in ways that don't relate to other people having died.

[hackitude]

Uh. ... That sounds kind of sad, Mr. G.

[infomodder]

Does it? The job's not always great, but I'm content to be away from people as much as I can.

I get the feeling you haven't spent a full 24 hours away from the Internet in some form or another in a long time. That about right?

[hackitude]

I like the internet. They get me.

I like people in real life too, I just... never really got a chance to make friends in school. ... I moved around a lot. So... the internet became my friendship group instead. Internet friends don't care if you move.

[infomodder]

[...not what he was expecting.]

Me either. By the time everyone got tired of making Teddy Graham/Graham Cracker jokes, it was off to another school to start the whole thing over again. Didn't have the Internet then. Wouldn't be able to keep up, no point in trying to make friends. I'd be at another school in a year or two. No email, no im, whatever. No cell phones, either. You ever watch an "old" movie where the cell phones are like bricks? Don't look like anything on the market now? We didn't even have that.

There was more plaid back then, too. Seems it's gone out of style.

[hackitude]

Wow, excuse you. Have you met me? I live for plaid.

... But man, that sounds like a total suck-fest. And not in the good way. I don't know what I would've done without the internet growing up. I was messed up enough as a teenager as it was.

[infomodder]

I'll have to recreate my collection here and we can compare.

I don't know anyone who wasn't messed up as a teenager. Rich, poor, two parents, one parent, no parents, everyone had their problems. Actually ended up feeling bad for some of the richer kids when I got older. No one asked me to do drugs with them because I didn't have money, not because I wasn't sociable. These kids who've got huge allowances are getting hit up left and right because they DID have the money. No one cared about them, they just wanted profit. Hell, I'd love to have some money, but I'd hate to deal with that. Seemed to come part and parcel with it.

Being a teenager is a suck-fest for everyone. If I ever met anyone who said they had a happy, perfect life ages 13-19 I wouldn't think they were human.

[hackitude]

[There's a pause on Skye's end while she mulls that one over for a few.]

... Sad. But true.

[infomodder]

[Of course now that they're here maybe there is a species of something out there that does, in fact, look upon their teenage years (eons?) with great fondness.]

Seems we started at sad truths and ended right back at them.

Just thought I should actually holler like I said I would.

[How does anyone say goodbye in a situation like this though.

And also not sound 7500 years old.]

[hackitude]

... Yeah. ... Thanks.

... You're an okay dude, Mr. G.

[infomodder]

[Wait, he thought he was cool. Now he's okay? Shit. He messed this one up.

...by going to jail for killing and cannibalism. Actually, that messed just about everything up.]

You're welcome.

If you need anything you know where to find me. Or, if you don't, you can probably just hack something somewhere and figure it out. So you know, if you need to, you can just ask. Don't have to sniff me out. I'll answer.

[hackitude]

He says like I haven't already looked up where he lives like days ago.

[infomodder]

All you had to do was ask! I'm disadvantaged here without the FBI database. I buy everything with cash, so I don't have to worry about you tracking my purchases. I have that going for me.

[hackitude]

I bet it's all like, fishing gear, dog food and classical music anyway.

[infomodder]

[RUDE. Implying his classic rock is classical, he gets that. He's not that old!]

And food for myself. That's about it.

[hackitude]

Yeah? Are you a good cook?