Tuesday, May 26th. [ after workshops ].

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

When Dinah had mentioned to Valentine an IM program utilizing the computer, of course she had planned to check it out. Now that her workshops were finished, she settled in her room around her laptop, looking into it, setting herself up not with just one account, but two mocking her mun who still doesn't know how to do that, one to be clearly her, the other...

...well, she'd gotten used to anonymity on the Nets. She wanted to have fun with it again.

*nottheholiday has logged into chat.

*demosthenes has logged into chat.

nottheholiday: VICTORY IS MINE.


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*semper_fi has logged into chat*

semper_fi: can you see me?

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

nottheholiday: No, but I can see your login and what you're typing.


Well, Valentine thought it was funny.

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

semper_fi: That's what I meant.
semper_fi: Sorry. New with this.

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

nottheholiday: I'm the one who should apologize; that was a really bad joke.

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semper_fi: I can take a joke or two.
semper_fi: Still getting used to the laptop.



Eliot had been the one to set up the laptop for her, complete with her chat name and other userinfo. It was a master stroke, one she was almost envious of: a vocabulary insult from a distance, into the future. Semper Fi, always Fiona, his sister, no matter what happened. Semper Fi short for Fidelis as their loyalties were always in question. And of course, it was the motto of the Marines, an elite fighting force: perfect for the 'warrior' of their duo.

She would have to email him about that once she finished, if only to congratulate him on a good one.

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nottheholiday: Me, too, although for me, it's because I'm used to something a little more advanced than this.


And, a few seconds later, the other entity had something to add.


demosthenes: The human dependancy on new and better technologies will lead to their downfall. When man can no longer think for himself, he is doomed to a devolution into infantile stupidity.

nottheholiday: Don't feed the troll, semper_fi.

demosthenes: For the last time, I'm not a troll.

nottheholiday: Just wait until I figure out how to ignore on this thing.

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semper_fi: ...what's a troll?
semper_fi: Okay.


She really didn't know. In either the online sense or the fantastical sense.

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

demosthenes: Something I'm not.

nottheholiday: internet slang. a person who posts something just to get a rise or a reaction out of other people or stir up trouble.

demosthenes: Exactly. And I am merely enlightening people. That's all.

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semper_fi: "Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment."
semper_fi: thanks
semper_fi: I'll keep it in mind.

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

demosthenes: Lao Tzu. Very nice.

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semper_fi: He's a favorite.

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

demosthenes: "All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action."

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semper_fi: nottheholiday?

She wasn't answering something that didn't actually answer her. One-upmanship was saved for her brother.

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

nottheholiday: what?

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

semper_fi: Just not feeding the troll.

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

nottheholiday: awwww, it was actually entertaining once it was off my back. :)

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semper_fi: There are better quotes.
semper_fi: And ones more on topic.
semper_fi: I think someone has a favorite.

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

demosthenes: Clearly. That was the point.

nottheholiday: It's good to know that Net bitchery is a classic tradition.

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semper_fi: There's a block button on here, isn't there?
semper_fi: Anyway, I'm Fiona. Have we met?

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

nottheholiday: I think? I'm new to this particular kind of IMing, so I haven't figured it out yet.
nottheholiday: and we have! This is Valentine.
nottheholiday: Get it?

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semper_fi: Of course.
semper_fi: From class, yes?

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

nottheholiday: Right. How's it going?

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semper_fi: Very good. Yourself?

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

nottheholiday: Glad that Dinah clued me into the IM systems here.

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semper_fi: I kind of stumbled into it.