"Especially my tea." He nods in approval, although it's an effort to sit calmly and drink tea when what he truly wants is to leap off the couch and show her how to boot up the computer. Fortunately he has made an entire lifetime of controlling himself, practicing focus and calm. Instead of leaping over to the computer, he sits apparently at ease (and oblivious to the dusty state of the sofa he's on), and continues in an even tone.
"The best way I could think of to keep it hacker-proof was to write the operating system from the ground up, but I'm afraid the GUI- the graphical user interface, which is how you interact with the computer, may fall short, so I need a layperson to test it. Burbank and Vincent need to be able to operate this, too..." It goes unsaid that they may be the lowest common denominator in this, being older than Myra and less agile of mind than their chief.
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Date: 2014-01-12 06:27 am (UTC)"The best way I could think of to keep it hacker-proof was to write the operating system from the ground up, but I'm afraid the GUI- the graphical user interface, which is how you interact with the computer, may fall short, so I need a layperson to test it. Burbank and Vincent need to be able to operate this, too..." It goes unsaid that they may be the lowest common denominator in this, being older than Myra and less agile of mind than their chief.