Lori has been saying that with twins we are single-fault tolerant and one is a flight hardware and the other is flight-spare.
It's good to have an engineer in the house.
Especially one that can build you the extra arms you'll need for twins.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
DavidS - Jan 04, 2007 7:43:33 am PST #2778 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Kat - Jan 04, 2007 7:43:49 am PST #2779 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
HA, Betsy! it is terrible. But given the problems NASA has with manned space flight, maybe the flight-spare is the lucky one.
sarameg - Jan 04, 2007 7:44:26 am PST #2780 of 10001
These will be very snarkily dressed children, I suspect.
amych - Jan 04, 2007 7:45:15 am PST #2781 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Especially one that can build you the extra arms you'll need for twins.
Huh -- it's too bad about the price tag on those rover things, because now that you mention it I can envision a very lucrative robo-nanny market.
Kat - Jan 04, 2007 7:45:19 am PST #2782 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
extra arms you'll need for twins
That's what Allyson, ita, Alibelle et al are for. After all it takes a village to raise a child. Of course, that's only one child. The other one will have to find his or her own village.
Tom Scola - Jan 04, 2007 7:46:04 am PST #2783 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
And, allyson thinks of the twins a hekyll and jekyll (is that spelled correctly?) and I can foresee a halloween when ita makes them dress up as Thing 1 and Thing 2.
In my mind, I've already named the twins "Dean" and "Logan", even though I have no idea if they're boys.
DavidS - Jan 04, 2007 7:46:32 am PST #2784 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The other one will have to find his or her own village.
Robo-village.
Or perhaps wire-mesh monkey mommy village.
Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2007 7:46:55 am PST #2785 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Damn, that's harsh. I imagine a tiny baby, blanket in hand, crawling out of the maternity ward, looking for a village that will take it.
Kat - Jan 04, 2007 7:47:00 am PST #2786 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
robo-nanny market
roomba!
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2007 7:47:33 am PST #2787 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I will be there for the underdog twin, and I will have it trained in the mystical arts of combat, starting at about 7 months.
It doesn't have to take a village to raise a child. Sometimes it just takes a sociopath.