[package to TW3]
December 12th, 2007
December 5th, 2007
[e-mail]
TO: Alice Keyes
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: Guess what.
The crafty scientist in his lab has half finished a very nice project that he promised you could get a peek at. I figured I should offer before you had to skip back to Cardiff.
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: Guess what.
The crafty scientist in his lab has half finished a very nice project that he promised you could get a peek at. I figured I should offer before you had to skip back to Cardiff.
December 1st, 2007
[e-mail]
TO: Jack Harkness
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: Progress Numero Dos
The first batch of security updates have now been installed. We've still got to run everything, test it, see just how all the systems work and where there are still faults before we start working on the secondary patch. At this rate, we might actually be finished sooner than what we figured. But there are always things that might crop up that we don't expect right now.
Also. I was wondering something.
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: Progress Numero Dos
The first batch of security updates have now been installed. We've still got to run everything, test it, see just how all the systems work and where there are still faults before we start working on the secondary patch. At this rate, we might actually be finished sooner than what we figured. But there are always things that might crop up that we don't expect right now.
Also. I was wondering something.
November 29th, 2007
[e-mail]
TO: Owen Harper
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: Just wondering.
If I were able to cannibalize enough of my useless equipment to get the parts, think Jack would pitch a fit if I built a duplicate copy of my HHUM and sent it down for you lot to use?
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: Just wondering.
If I were able to cannibalize enough of my useless equipment to get the parts, think Jack would pitch a fit if I built a duplicate copy of my HHUM and sent it down for you lot to use?
November 25th, 2007
[narrative]
[during this]
Adric had said he was going 'out', and that had been hours ago. Out, that was all that he had said. Seamus had been initially annoyed at being abandoned to pick up the slack, but the longer that Adric had been gone, the more he had realized that he had free reign right now. This place wasn't his Machine Shop by any length of the imagination, but he'd taken one of the work areas that had been designated the Tech department and set it up for himself. He'd sorted all of his own equipment and projects in there, including the beginnings of his time machine, and had re-keyed the door lock to his own personal pass-code. As soon as the computer system was more integrated, he'd be able to make the place that much more secure, but for right now, it served its purpose.
Slipping away from the computer banks was easy, and with the sheer lack of people in this facility at the moment, getting to the room was simple enough. Closing the door behind him, Seamus grinned at his surroundings, crossing over to the desk to put the finishing touches on his Gauss gun, clicking the last coil relay into place. No, this certainly wasn't Machine Shop 17, but it would do.
Adric had said he was going 'out', and that had been hours ago. Out, that was all that he had said. Seamus had been initially annoyed at being abandoned to pick up the slack, but the longer that Adric had been gone, the more he had realized that he had free reign right now. This place wasn't his Machine Shop by any length of the imagination, but he'd taken one of the work areas that had been designated the Tech department and set it up for himself. He'd sorted all of his own equipment and projects in there, including the beginnings of his time machine, and had re-keyed the door lock to his own personal pass-code. As soon as the computer system was more integrated, he'd be able to make the place that much more secure, but for right now, it served its purpose.
Slipping away from the computer banks was easy, and with the sheer lack of people in this facility at the moment, getting to the room was simple enough. Closing the door behind him, Seamus grinned at his surroundings, crossing over to the desk to put the finishing touches on his Gauss gun, clicking the last coil relay into place. No, this certainly wasn't Machine Shop 17, but it would do.
November 22nd, 2007
[e-mail]
TO: Jack Harkness
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: Progress
Adric and I have reached a tentative compromise, and things are moving along. Hopefully we won't have anymore speed bumps, but it's hard to say. Also, how the hell do you get this kid to take some time off? He's been working himself to death over here (even when I keep insisting I'm fine by myself), and I've got no ideas short of smacking him really hard.
- S.Z. Harper
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: Progress
Adric and I have reached a tentative compromise, and things are moving along. Hopefully we won't have anymore speed bumps, but it's hard to say. Also, how the hell do you get this kid to take some time off? He's been working himself to death over here (even when I keep insisting I'm fine by myself), and I've got no ideas short of smacking him really hard.
- S.Z. Harper
November 14th, 2007
[e-mail]
TO: Jack Harkness
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: Just FYI
You might not be getting your technical expert back in one piece.
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: Just FYI
You might not be getting your technical expert back in one piece.
[narrative]
Seamus wanted to break his fucking face. And if this Adric wasn't Alice's best friend, he would have already. That annoying child thought that he knew better than Seamus did when it came to computers. Adric refused to listen to any of his suggestions, was flippant and dismissive toward him, and had done basically everything short of saying 'I know better than you do. Leave me alone and go play with your scraps over in that corner'. And if it ever actually came to that, Harper was going to punch him. He'd definitely deserve it.
This wasn't Adric's system. He wasn't going to be the one having to deal with it once it was set up. He wasn't the one that was going to have to keep it managed and up to date. So what if it was a little more complicated than the average system? So what if it was different? Anyone that would eventually be employed here would be smart enough to learn how to cope with it, wouldn't they?
Seamus glowered at Adric's back from his corner, where he was working on constructing his own interface based off of the skeleton that Adric had brought with him. The second that little shit was out of the building, Seamus was migrating the system.
This wasn't Adric's system. He wasn't going to be the one having to deal with it once it was set up. He wasn't the one that was going to have to keep it managed and up to date. So what if it was a little more complicated than the average system? So what if it was different? Anyone that would eventually be employed here would be smart enough to learn how to cope with it, wouldn't they?
Seamus glowered at Adric's back from his corner, where he was working on constructing his own interface based off of the skeleton that Adric had brought with him. The second that little shit was out of the building, Seamus was migrating the system.
November 6th, 2007
[e-mail]
TO: Alice Keyes
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: I am a god.
Care to see the initial stages of a time machine? I'll even let you keep some of the carbon nanotubing, if you want. Even though it's a right bitch to make with just the tools that I have on hand. High pressure vacuums aren't simple to achieve, after all.
Oh, and I finished the interface. It just needs some fine tuning that can't be done without having the programing at hand. So. Whenever you have a moment?
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: I am a god.
Care to see the initial stages of a time machine? I'll even let you keep some of the carbon nanotubing, if you want. Even though it's a right bitch to make with just the tools that I have on hand. High pressure vacuums aren't simple to achieve, after all.
Oh, and I finished the interface. It just needs some fine tuning that can't be done without having the programing at hand. So. Whenever you have a moment?
October 31st, 2007
October 29th, 2007
[e-mail]
TO: Alice
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: The World According to Seamus Harper:
The Universe Hates You; Deal With It.
And apparently, the universe has a very sick sense of humor when it comes to me.
- S.Z. Harper
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: The World According to Seamus Harper:
The Universe Hates You; Deal With It.
And apparently, the universe has a very sick sense of humor when it comes to me.
- S.Z. Harper
[private]
10.29.6834
Family, friends, & a job all in one week? This is almost as good as the invitation to join Andromeda. It's definitely going to take some getting used to. But I've been doing all right with this so far. Jack said he'd keep an eye out for everyone else. Trance is going to show up eventually. I know that much. But it's hard to say when or if anyone else is going to.
London. I heard a few things about London back in my time. Nothing good. But it's probably different now.
Even if it is nearly as bad, it can't be as bad as what I'm used to. And it'll be resources, somewhere that I won't have to scavenge for proper parts. It's somewhere that I can actually work on reconstructing my theories and developing new ones. It's not that far from here, either, I don't think. A manageable traveling distance, at least. Not that I'm attached to this town by any means. But being so far away from people I do count as friends, that's not such a hot idea.
Family, friends, & a job all in one week? This is almost as good as the invitation to join Andromeda. It's definitely going to take some getting used to. But I've been doing all right with this so far. Jack said he'd keep an eye out for everyone else. Trance is going to show up eventually. I know that much. But it's hard to say when or if anyone else is going to.
London. I heard a few things about London back in my time. Nothing good. But it's probably different now.
Even if it is nearly as bad, it can't be as bad as what I'm used to. And it'll be resources, somewhere that I won't have to scavenge for proper parts. It's somewhere that I can actually work on reconstructing my theories and developing new ones. It's not that far from here, either, I don't think. A manageable traveling distance, at least. Not that I'm attached to this town by any means. But being so far away from people I do count as friends, that's not such a hot idea.
October 26th, 2007
[e-mail]
TO: Jack Harkness
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: Miss me?
Yeah, yeah. I know I'm not supposed to have this address. How dare I violate the sanctity of your network and everything like that. I promise I didn't touch anything I wasn't supposed to.
Much.
Kidding, kidding!
Anyways, I've heard you guys have had a bit of trouble over there lately. I was wondering if you needed a bit of a break. Get away for a couple hours? I promise not to talk much business.
- S.Z. Harper
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: Miss me?
Yeah, yeah. I know I'm not supposed to have this address. How dare I violate the sanctity of your network and everything like that. I promise I didn't touch anything I wasn't supposed to.
Much.
Kidding, kidding!
Anyways, I've heard you guys have had a bit of trouble over there lately. I was wondering if you needed a bit of a break. Get away for a couple hours? I promise not to talk much business.
- S.Z. Harper
October 24th, 2007
[e-mail]
TO: Owen Harper
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: Progress.
Major kudos to whoever designed Torchwood's interface. That is some beautiful binary. Beautiful and temperamental. I very nearly gave up trying to get through it manually after the tenth time I ended up getting ejected. But! A man who gives up never gets anywhere in life.
Anyways, how are things coming?
- S.Z. Harper
FROM: Seamus Harper
SUBJECT: Progress.
Major kudos to whoever designed Torchwood's interface. That is some beautiful binary. Beautiful and temperamental. I very nearly gave up trying to get through it manually after the tenth time I ended up getting ejected. But! A man who gives up never gets anywhere in life.
Anyways, how are things coming?
- S.Z. Harper
October 23rd, 2007
[private]
10.24.6834
This is the first time I ever let my HHUM anywhere when I wasn't around to watch her. The first time I left her with anyone with express permission for them to fuss with her when I wasn't there to supervise. Sure, the fail safes were always in place, but I never really felt comfortable with anyone else doing anything with her. I liked to show off my work, but actually giving someone free reign over it? I barely even let Rommie touch the stuff, and Trance would help, sure, but only when I was there to tell her what to do.
What's different now?
I've willingly handed over a ton of flexies (glad I have those back now, really. it's a relief.), helped to modify a modern PC (...I should probably ask Jack if that falls under a violation of our no inventions agreement.), & left my HHUM in the hands of a complete stranger who I would have happily said was an absolute prick if you'd asked me a few days ago.
What is so different now?
This is the first time I ever let my HHUM anywhere when I wasn't around to watch her. The first time I left her with anyone with express permission for them to fuss with her when I wasn't there to supervise. Sure, the fail safes were always in place, but I never really felt comfortable with anyone else doing anything with her. I liked to show off my work, but actually giving someone free reign over it? I barely even let Rommie touch the stuff, and Trance would help, sure, but only when I was there to tell her what to do.
What's different now?
I've willingly handed over a ton of flexies (glad I have those back now, really. it's a relief.), helped to modify a modern PC (...I should probably ask Jack if that falls under a violation of our no inventions agreement.), & left my HHUM in the hands of a complete stranger who I would have happily said was an absolute prick if you'd asked me a few days ago.
What is so different now?
October 8th, 2007
[private]
10.8.6834
Wonderful. Just wonderful. In my pigheaded need to come out on top, I ended up losing all of the Andromeda's technical files. Dylan would absolutely kill me if he knew. Lucky for me, he's nowhere near this century. On the downside (or rather, the even downer side), I think I just ended up making enemies out of people that I really shouldn't have.Maybe I should go back and... fuck if I'm going to apologize to them. They pushed me into it. You don't threaten the nice little man after he tries to say he's sorry. No, no, you don't.
I'm not sure what to think of that Owen. Maybe it's better that I try not to. The Harpers are dead. And anything I may or may not find out in this time period doesn't change that.
Wonderful. Just wonderful. In my pigheaded need to come out on top, I ended up losing all of the Andromeda's technical files. Dylan would absolutely kill me if he knew. Lucky for me, he's nowhere near this century. On the downside (or rather, the even downer side), I think I just ended up making enemies out of people that I really shouldn't have.
I'm not sure what to think of that Owen. Maybe it's better that I try not to. The Harpers are dead. And anything I may or may not find out in this time period doesn't change that.
[private]
10.8.6834
Wonderful. Just wonderful. In my pigheaded need to come out on top, I ended up losing all of the Andromeda's technical files. Dylan would absolutely kill me if he knew. Lucky for me, he's nowhere near this century. On the downside (or rather, the even downer side), I think I just ended up making enemies out of people that I really shouldn't have.Maybe I should go back and... fuck if I'm going to apologize to them. They pushed me into it. You don't threaten the nice little man after he tries to say he's sorry. No, no, you don't.
I'm not sure what to think of that Owen. Maybe it's better that I try not to. The Harpers are dead. And anything I may or may not find out in this time period doesn't change that.
Wonderful. Just wonderful. In my pigheaded need to come out on top, I ended up losing all of the Andromeda's technical files. Dylan would absolutely kill me if he knew. Lucky for me, he's nowhere near this century. On the downside (or rather, the even downer side), I think I just ended up making enemies out of people that I really shouldn't have.
I'm not sure what to think of that Owen. Maybe it's better that I try not to. The Harpers are dead. And anything I may or may not find out in this time period doesn't change that.
September 30th, 2007
[private]
9.30.6834
Trance is out there somewhere. I know it. I just have to figure out a way to get a signal to Tarn-Vedra. I know she'll know me. I know it. She explained it all after it was all over with, and I'm just starting to get my head around it. Always present, no past, no future for her. She exists in all time, in all spaces at once. She knows her own future. She knew my future, too. Did she know this was going to happen? If she did, why didn't she say anything? Trance, you spent so long avoiding my questions. If you'd just answered them without waiting until it was all over with....
And this is where you insert your naive, all for the greater good, it was what I had to do defense, I tease you about being being such a tool, we nudge each other back and forth for awhile, laugh, and then we go back to whatever it was we were doing before we started bickering.
I always pretended like I would be just fine on my own. I didn't want to need anyone. Needing people was something that could get you killed and survival was always my first priority.That sounds so disgustingly Nietzschean. I only let myself need you guys because you needed me as well. The Maru would have just been one huge paperweight if I hadn't been there to make sure Beka didn't burn out the engines with her insanity. I was just a kid. We were both just kids. That was probably why we got along so well. God knows you drove me insane with your chirpy optimism, but right now, I could really use some.
All right. Glad that's out of my system. Serious does not look good on me. Now, onto the less than serious matters at hand.
Jack. He seems like a nice guy, but the flirting. Yeah. Just no. Not going to happen, and if he does it again, I'll... Well, I'll do something. Probably glare since he's likely to snap me like a twig if I try and punch him or anything like that. Maybe if I ask nicely, he won't try it again. And on similar note, I wonder if the women in this era go for the adorable geek type anymore than the people in mine. I can cross my fingers and hope. Not that that has ever gotten me anywhere before.
Oh, well. Only one way to find out.
Trance is out there somewhere. I know it. I just have to figure out a way to get a signal to Tarn-Vedra. I know she'll know me. I know it. She explained it all after it was all over with, and I'm just starting to get my head around it. Always present, no past, no future for her. She exists in all time, in all spaces at once. She knows her own future. She knew my future, too. Did she know this was going to happen? If she did, why didn't she say anything? Trance, you spent so long avoiding my questions. If you'd just answered them without waiting until it was all over with....
And this is where you insert your naive, all for the greater good, it was what I had to do defense, I tease you about being being such a tool, we nudge each other back and forth for awhile, laugh, and then we go back to whatever it was we were doing before we started bickering.
I always pretended like I would be just fine on my own. I didn't want to need anyone. Needing people was something that could get you killed and survival was always my first priority.
All right. Glad that's out of my system. Serious does not look good on me. Now, onto the less than serious matters at hand.
Jack. He seems like a nice guy, but the flirting. Yeah. Just no. Not going to happen, and if he does it again, I'll... Well, I'll do something. Probably glare since he's likely to snap me like a twig if I try and punch him or anything like that. Maybe if I ask nicely, he won't try it again. And on similar note, I wonder if the women in this era go for the adorable geek type anymore than the people in mine. I can cross my fingers and hope. Not that that has ever gotten me anywhere before.
Oh, well. Only one way to find out.
[private]
9.30.6834
Trance is out there somewhere. I know it. I just have to figure out a way to get a signal to Tarn-Vedra. I know she'll know me. I know it. She explained it all after it was all over with, and I'm just starting to get my head around it. Always present, no past, no future for her. She exists in all time, in all spaces at once. She knows her own future. She knew my future, too. Did she know this was going to happen? If she did, why didn't she say anything? Trance, you spent so long avoiding my questions. If you'd just answered them without waiting until it was all over with....
And this is where you insert your naive, all for the greater good, it was what I had to do defense, I tease you about being being such a tool, we nudge each other back and forth for awhile, laugh, and then we go back to whatever it was we were doing before we started bickering.
I always pretended like I would be just fine on my own. I didn't want to need anyone. Needing people was something that could get you killed and survival was always my first priority.That sounds so disgustingly Nietzschean. I only let myself need you guys because you needed me as well. The Maru would have just been one huge paperweight if I hadn't been there to make sure Beka didn't burn out the engines with her insanity. I was just a kid. We were both just kids. That was probably why we got along so well. God knows you drove me insane with your chirpy optimism, but right now, I could really use some.
All right. Glad that's out of my system. Serious does not look good on me. Now, onto the less than serious matters at hand.
Jack. He seems like a nice guy, but the flirting. Yeah. Just no. Not going to happen, and if he does it again, I'll... Well, I'll do something. Probably glare since he's likely to snap me like a twig if I try and punch him or anything like that. Maybe if I ask nicely, he won't try it again. And on similar note, I wonder if the women in this era go for the adorable geek type anymore than the people in mine. I can cross my fingers and hope. Not that that has ever gotten me anywhere before.
Oh, well. Only one way to find out.
Trance is out there somewhere. I know it. I just have to figure out a way to get a signal to Tarn-Vedra. I know she'll know me. I know it. She explained it all after it was all over with, and I'm just starting to get my head around it. Always present, no past, no future for her. She exists in all time, in all spaces at once. She knows her own future. She knew my future, too. Did she know this was going to happen? If she did, why didn't she say anything? Trance, you spent so long avoiding my questions. If you'd just answered them without waiting until it was all over with....
And this is where you insert your naive, all for the greater good, it was what I had to do defense, I tease you about being being such a tool, we nudge each other back and forth for awhile, laugh, and then we go back to whatever it was we were doing before we started bickering.
I always pretended like I would be just fine on my own. I didn't want to need anyone. Needing people was something that could get you killed and survival was always my first priority.
All right. Glad that's out of my system. Serious does not look good on me. Now, onto the less than serious matters at hand.
Jack. He seems like a nice guy, but the flirting. Yeah. Just no. Not going to happen, and if he does it again, I'll... Well, I'll do something. Probably glare since he's likely to snap me like a twig if I try and punch him or anything like that. Maybe if I ask nicely, he won't try it again. And on similar note, I wonder if the women in this era go for the adorable geek type anymore than the people in mine. I can cross my fingers and hope. Not that that has ever gotten me anywhere before.
Oh, well. Only one way to find out.
September 28th, 2007
( Seamus Zelazny Harper, Super Genius )