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I have been almost entirely absorbed over the last three days with office setup, pulling daerr and radiotelescope along with me. My apartment is a mess now, but we all have workspaces, more or less, even if rt is the only one with an actual desk per se. (I'm using a wobbly card table for the nonce and d is sharing the nice dougo-donated dining table with our Windows test machine.)

Much of the mess is giant empty boxes that nice helpful men will make go away a few days hence. Sadly the empty-box creation has cost me a great deal of money. Happily, the company will reimburse me for this (or I will make a personal tax write-off out of it; not sure which yet). Sadly, we're about to take a big hit from the bill that our lawyer will send us soon. Happily, the work he's done will let us accept money from our seed investors under a nice legal shield that should please everyone, and we've come close enough to our seed-money goal (scooping together just under $20K) that we are, in fact, happy, yes.

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Expression that I feel simply terrible about liking:

"...and we combine to become Voltron."

It's a maximally dorky and yet perfectly meaningful way to say "when cooperating, our output is greater than the sum of our work as individuals." It's nice all-positive vibes glazed with christ-you-guys-are-nerds.

Comments

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

the lion voltron? or the stupid cars/vehicles voltron? cuz one was totally gay.

[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

That has been been said around here a few times. Ususally when we have to go do something difficult, in the form of "...and then we will form Voltron and attack" And it is true, too. In fact, drogers has TWO classic 80's models of Voltron (Lion model, of course) at his desk.

If that ain't geek, I don't know what is.

[karlvonl.livejournal.com]

My younger brother used to have the toy version of the vehicle Voltron. It was cool in that it actually was 15 separate toy vehicles (sold in three packs of five) that could actually be assembled into the robot form. So while the lion Voltron may have been cooler in general, I believe that the concept of actually making a toy of the vehicle Voltron is much more impressive.

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

conceptually, yes. the lots of little toys making one big toy thing is rather cool. the execution however of the vehicle voltron, and i mean in cartoon format, was just ghastly.