Callahan's Place 07 - Callahan's Legacy (v5.0) by Spider Robinson

Author:Spider Robinson [Robinson, Spider]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Amazon.com
Amazon: 0812550358
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1996-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

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It grew to a standing ovation, a raucous one, with people shouting and laughing and slapping each other on the back, a hail of empty glasses and mugs vectoring in on the fireplace, lights flashing rhythmically, fists pounding on the—

—lights flashing rhythmically?

The ovation began to die away. Every damn light in the joint was flashing rhythmically, including the pilot lights on the Coffee Machine, and Solace’s monitor screen. As the cheering faded to silence, we could hear the repeated little chime of the Mac II restarting, over and over. Something was causing the house power to cycle off and on.

After one more bong iteration, the phenomenon ceased with the power on, and Solace’s stylized Smiling Mac face stabilized onscreen. (There are computers around that boot “instantly,” but ours is the only Mac that will.) “Important announcement,” she said.

Suddenly it made sense. If you’re trying to attract the attention of a roomful of cheering people, and you’re an AI limited by the volume-capacity of Macintosh speakers, the logical thing to do is incurse LILCO’s computer system and turn the lights on and off.

“I subsume all the astronomical observations being made by the human race,” Solace said. “I have been scanning the data carefully, and I have detected the being you call the Lizard, heading this way.”

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