Mac OS X, baby

[jinian]

On my way back from Taco Del Mar, corner of 35th and Fremont, I met a strange woman dressed in a long stretch-velvet skirt and a very pretty blazer with slight green iridescence.

"What you got loaded on that bike?" she asked.

I expressed my confusion. She repeated herself. Nope, still confused.

"Electronics." she said, narrowing her eyes. "Software."

"Er, nothing." I had heard her muttering to herself before but had hopefully figured that she was rehearsing lines for a play or something. Nope, strange paranoid lady.

"I suppose you're all innocent and pure, then," she scoffed. "She looks pretty innocent!" she declaimed, apparently to the people on the opposite corner. (My fourth wall remained intact, at any rate.) She then set out for the other side of the street, grumbling about how the light hadn't changed but it was time to go.

The light changed a moment later, so she knew the intersection, which is fairly complicated. I haven't seen her before. If I do again, I'll keep you all posted.

Comments

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you had a brief Gibsonverse crossover - I remember from I think Mona Lisa Overdrive the mention that bicycles were made then from paper with built-in electronics and antitheft stuff.

You should have said Linux. Or WinCE.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember from I think Mona Lisa Overdrive the mention that bicycles were made then from paper with built-in electronics and antitheft stuff

That was Virtual Light, I think.

Australian Joe

she's on to you!

[rubricity.livejournal.com]

She knows that your pure and innocent appearance is just to divert people from your true evil nature!

Re: she's on to you!

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

...who doesn't?

Re: she's on to you!

[rubricity.livejournal.com]

most of the known universe.

the rest of us are "special" to be privy to such knowledge.

Re: she's on to you!

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Oh, right. I knew it as soon as I saw her, if not before. It's part of why I like and admire her.

Re: she's on to you!

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Most of the known universe has never met me, though, so perhaps she has a point.

Re: she's on to you!

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeees. Your Earth universe.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Just your local MEP representative (Microsoft Enforcement Police)...

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

that's a great story. I hope you see her again.

[mathochist.livejournal.com]

Well, you look pretty pure and innocent to me. But I know better. I know it's the ones who *look* pure and innocent that you have to watch out for.

So, what *have* you got loaded on that bike, eh? Come on, confess!

[elisem.livejournal.com]

There is definitely a story in there.

Not sure you want to go get it out, mind you, but there is one in there.

Me, I tend to meet slightly transfigured street saints who tell me, "You can live in this world, and you can be in heaven or you can be in hell." (I think he had a point. I wonder what he would have said to your software lady, though -- or she to him.)