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Salutations from outside the sorting room!

They've put me in Ravenclaw, with no surprise at all - and I'm told already there are ways to tweak my laptop so it'll boot. Sounds like an entertaining evening to me -- join me for dinner and then playing with electronics?

Tosh.




Salutations!

They've let me loose on Ravenclaw, it seems, with all my notes intact. I'm working on getting my laptop functional again -- when I do, care to take a look at my work? I've been staring at some of the equasions so long I'm sure I have blind spots -- we didn't have anyone else solid enough at maths to really pick it apart at Torchwood. Not since S

I'd love to see your work, as well -- I don't suppose you have any of your articles here?

Tosh.




Hello,

I'm sorted -- into Ravenclaw. Big surprise, I'm sure. I was wondering -- do you have any of your films here? I think I'd like to see one. Documentaries have always been my favourite sort of cinema.

Toshiko




Hey, guys:

I'm safe in Ravenclaw. I promised you I'd get you all into the bar for drinks -- how's Wednesday night for everyone? Nothing wild, I promise. (Can you still get chinese takeaway here? We ought to have that, too, for old times' sake.)

Tosh.

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Dr. Sato,

I'd be delighted - and if you can show me how to get my own laptop working, I'd be in your debt forever. I know exactly what you mean about blind spots, believe me. I do have a couple of recent articles, nothing earthshattering about them, I'm afraid, and the rest is back home. A couple of the major ones detailing the Malcolm Effect are online if you can get that laptop of yours onto the 'net. Just let me know when you're ready to start crunching numbers.

Speaking of online access, have you by any chance met another new arrival to Ravenclaw, a Mlle. Martine Desroubins?

Yours,
Dr. Ian Malcolm

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Dr. Malcolm:

I'll do my best; Jadzia and I have an electronics-dissection session planned, I'll let you know what we work out. Would it be overly poetic if I said life wasn't real without imaginary numbers? My fingers itch for a sliderule.

I haven't, though the name sounds familiar. Why do you ask?

Toshiko

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Toshiko,

I sometimes think imaginary numbers are more real than real life. How's that for poetic?

Miss Desroubins was being Sorted into Ravenclaw around the same time you were, you may have seen her in either place. She's a researcher from 40, 50 years in the future, or rather, a future.

In her timeline the Internet is virtual reality based, and heavy users like her have bio-implants in their necks to access it directly. As Miss Desroubins is blind, that opened up a world to her that Hogwarts, with no tech and no 'net, has closed off again. I thought if we could get some computers working, then perhaps we could create something her biotech could interface with.

Didn't I hear Jadzia - that's the tall lady with the patterned birthmarks, correct? - is from a future timeline as well? She might have some thoughts. I believe I saw her at Miss Desroubins' Sorting. That's someone else I must get around to meeting - so many interesting new people coming into Ravenclaw lately!

Yours,
Malcolm

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Malcolm:

We should start an imaginary numbers withdrawl support network, it sounds like. I've been told the muggle studies tutor got a television working, at least -- electricity was the first big stumbling block! I plan on borrowing his notes.

Once we have that, the next block is AC to DC power -- that is, building and charging a battery for Miss Desroubins. It'll be a short jump from there to building a reciever and looking for signals I can piggyback on and get us access to a network, hopefully the internet.

Jadzia is from a future timeline, yes -- several centuries ahead of us. She's got some technology -- why don't I just set up one big meeting? I'll owl Ianto and see if I can sweet-talk him into making us some of his amazing coffee magic and we can get organized all together.

Toshiko

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Toshiko,

A tech-geek group meeting sounds like heaven. Aside from notes and articles, anything I should bring?

Malcolm

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Malcolm:

Just a steady brain. I'll see Ianto tomorrow, I'll ask him then and send out owls after.

Toshiko