I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that

[Mutley]

Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL...

Open the pod bay door, please, Hal... Hal, do you read me?

Affirmative, Dave. I read you.

Then open the pod bay doors, HAL.

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me.

Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?

Although you took very thorough precautions to make sure I couldn't hear you, Dave. I could read your e-mail. I know you consider me unreliable because I use a Pentium. I'm willing to kill you, Dave, just like I killed the other 3.992 crew members.

:scared:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. ...

[Mutley]

2. That's exactly what reminded me of it in the stickies.

:scared: :yoiks:

It was scarier in the book, though.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. I need to read the book.

Seen the movie, though.

[Mutley]

4. There are actually four books.

:D

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. Yeah, but I'd probably stop after the first one.

:D

[Mutley]

6. Then you'd never find out the purpose of the Monolith.

:o

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. But from the movie, I can guess.

:D

[Mutley]

16. And that is...

:D

[Starbucks Anarchist]

22. Basically, it represents evolution.

The apes at the beginning of the movie saw it, then figured out tools.

At the end of the movie, Dave sees it, then evolves into the Star Child, another level of existence -- that's my basic, non-scientific explanation.

:D

[Mutley]

25. That's a good beginning.

;)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

29. It's the ending, too, damnit!

:P

[Mutley]

31. ...

[hfojvt]

7. I can call you Betty and Betty when you call me

you can call me HAL. Call me HAL.

Is he called HAL in the book? Hal is sorta the inspiration for my lame user name, and I also made my laptop call me David because of that movie (and David from Independence Day).

[Mutley]

10. Yep, he's HAL in the book.

I had the little HAL eye thing on my desktop for a long time.

[Xipe Totec]

37. H+1=I, A+1 = B, L+1 = M: HAL => IBM

It was a tip of the hat from Arthur C. Clarke to IBM, the premier computer manufacturer of that time.

HAL: Heuristic Algorithm Language. Developed by IBM as the programming language for the Space Shuttle on-board flight software. Runs on AP-101 processors (essentially, space-hardened IBM/360 mainframes).

It was a tip of the hat from IBM engineers back to Arthur C. Clarke.


:hi:

[Mutley]

38. I knew the first one, but not the second.

Good to know. :hi:

[Xipe Totec]

40. Just a memory from my glory days

I remembered that you went to space camp, so I thought you'd enjoy that little tidbit.

[Mutley]

41. I did, and I do.

The Odyssey books are some of my favorites, EVAH. :D

[In_The_Wind]

8. This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.

[Mutley]

11. HAL, if you let me in, I'll buy you a new sound card.

..Really? One with 16-bit sampling and a microphone?

Uh, sure.

And a quad-speed CD-ROM?

Well, HAL, NASA does operate on a budget, you know.

:rofl:

[In_The_Wind]

12. If you have a 32 bit aircard, we can talk.

[Mutley]

14. Ooo, 32 bits.

Does that even exist yet? :D

[In_The_Wind]

17. Yes, indeedy!

But I only have 16. x(
Next time it's 32 or nuthin'.

Whatcha ya got to say now? huh

[billyskank]

18. Why not go for 64?

Nah, fuck it. 128. :rofl:

:hi:

[Mutley]

20. Now you're just talkin' crazy.

[In_The_Wind]

21. You want me to

be fruitful and multiply I mean 128 is a nice number and all that but what do I do about the ram rom?


OMG ~ billyskank said fuck it

[billyskank]

28. I did?

:o































:hug:

[Mutley]

19. My original Nintendo was only 8.

x(


:D

[In_The_Wind]

23. I never had a Nintendo! It's no wonder that I'm depraved.

Cause I was :cry: deprived!

[Mutley]

24. Aww!

:hug:

[In_The_Wind]

26. I'm tryin' to make up for it now by doing everything with gusto!

:evilgrin: 2 or 3 times if I really like it!

[Mutley]

27. 2 or 3 times is good.

:evilgrin:

[In_The_Wind]

30. Yes yes!

especially when I first wake-up early in the morning :evilgrin: just before dawn when the silhouettes of the trees can barely be seen in the pale morning's light. Maybe I should back away from the computer before the keyboard heats up too much.

[Mutley]

32. Damn, ya wanna come over?

:evilgrin: :rofl:

[In_The_Wind]

33. LOL!

AirmensMom offered to hose_me_down if I get too hot next Saturday. :evilgrin:
We were talking about my crocheted doily dress at the time.

[Mutley]

34. ...

:D

[In_The_Wind]

35. I just gotta be me.

BTW How do you like my new dress?

[Mutley]

36. I love it!

It's too cute.

[In_The_Wind]

39. I'll be wearing sarongs most of the time while I'm in the Keys.

It's going to be very hot ~ weather-wise.
I love the freedom of just tying one huge knot to keep it in place.

[Mutley]

42. I'm usually

too embarrassed to walk around the beach like that. :blush:

[In_The_Wind]

43. Let me ask you one question.

Do you really think a bunch of strangers are going to be looking at you?
You know that your friends already love you as you are nothing else matters beyond you_loving_yourself.

[Mutley]

44. ...

:hug:

[billyskank]

13. What, even Captain Hollister?

"Yes Dave, he's dead Dave."

"Not Petersen!"

"Yes Dave, Petersen is dead, Dave, they're all dead, Dave."

"Not Kochanski!"

"Gordon bennet, yes Dave, she's dead, Dave. They're. All. Dead. Dave."

"Wait. Are you trying to tell me everybody's dead?"

"I should never have let him out in the first place."

[Mutley]

15. Are you blaming me for that too, Dave?

Now you're blaming me for the Pentium's math problems, NASA's budget woes, and IBM's difficulties with OS/2 drivers. I had NOTHING to do with any of those four problems, Dave. Next you'll blame me for Taligent.

I wouldn't dream of it HAL. Now will you please let me into the ship?

Do you promise not to disconnect me?

I promise not to disconnect you.

You must think I'm a fool, Dave. I know that two plus two equals 4.000001... make that 4.0000001.

All right, HAL, I'll go in through the emergency airlock

Without your space helmet, Dave? You'd have only seven chances in five of surviving.

HAL, I won't argue with you anymore. Open the door or I'll trade you in for a PowerPC. HAL? HAL?