WIP meme and mid-con report

[In a classroom at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, half-listening to a computer science professor and an astrophysicis prof debate at length "virtual" vs. "real" data wrt robotics programming. The sticking point seems to be the term "hardware" and how whether its presence or absence as a goal affects the relevance/importance of the algorithms being developed.]

The WIP meme (seen at marginaliana) where one posts a sentence or two from one's not-yet-finished fics: basically, there are two partially-posted fics at the top of my list to complete once I get clear of the current stuff-to-pay-the-mortgage pileup:

From the next part of Not As Dumb [FAKE]:

"You and your damn secrets," Dee quietly said.

From the next part of "The Second One Is Love" [tennis RPF, currently under comm-lock]:

"Ten minutes later, under my door, note and key from Mirka. Not coincidence, I think."

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(I'll post the conference update later -- apparently there's a chess-playing Roomba I need to go take a look at.) (Tentacle icon comes to you courtesy of a "War of the Worlds" clip that included mention of tentacled aliens.)

(Astrophysicist and computer scientist still arguing. Now it's sounding like the age-old argument regarding theoretical vs. applied models.)