Omake
First, Second,Third time is the Charm.
Focusing upon the integers, juliana Patvaya squinted in a disgusted manner as code scrolled down her monitor, ignoring her colleague Toby as he yammered away, mouth flapping away uselessly as his hands blurred over the keyboards.
Her glasses kept slipping on her nose distractingly, her long red hair somewhat in disarray, her clothing rumpled from yet another all nighter, the main projects still under an extreme amount of pressure, not just internally within the Company, but also the Politicians and Media sticking their oars in regularly.
"Mstfgl...." She mumbled as she chewed on her dry and tough sandwich.
'Gifted Geniuses, may have their uses, but if only they would just.... Shut the hell up sometimes' She thought as her eye twitched with stress, code still scrolling along as time passed and her sandwich felt tougher with each chew.
Toby continued to hum irritatingly, driving Juliana's nerves to a honed focus.
Not wanting to be sent to Prison for a wholly reasonable murder, made her depth of feeling, very much a burden on her workload.
'Toby is not malicious' She reminded herself, taking deep breathes to stay calm and refocus on healthier less homicidal impulses.
With a tap, she froze the screen in shock and grinned very widely, her face relaxing even as her smile grew, after hours of tedious searching, finally progress was able to be pursued once again.
Finally after locating the problem integer, it was like she could breath easy, a weight taken off her mind and her body.
"Got ya yer bastard!" She barked loudly, her unfinished sandwich spurting out of her mouth, flying forth with much force, soon to redecorate her colleagues computer terminal.
Immersed in her task and jubilant in her long sought success, she ignored Toby's grimace and his subsequent swift reaction, as he began administering antiseptic wipes, to everything he could reach.
Jacob Tanaka their other colleague meanwhile, was poking their head into the room, from the nearby kitchenette, his long face curious and blue eyes glancing over the scene.
Juliana had now begun to very happily dance and bounce around in her seat, soon gyrating her wide hips, to a very tone deaf version, of some ancient Earth Song.
Jacob smirked and laughed, looking rather amused before he walked closer, eager to check out her Monitor.... Not her tight top.
"Heh! Screw you Integer!" She sang as she quickly edited the problem coding that had finally been found, with multiple saves of her progress, then copied over to several back ups, on external data cores just in case.
Jacob shook his head, his long hair catching the light, his neon blue hair catching the eye, a long slow sigh soon escaping him.
"Ternary computing eh, who knew it would be so tiresome to implement...." He said with a laugh as he sat at his own terminal, examining the code after rebooting and running the program with the amendments that Juliana had already added.
Positive, Neutral and Negative was just one of the measures being implemented and used to improve Coding for Software, with yet another way to lay a bright path and blaze a trail for their newborn Polity.
"The march of Technology and Progress is an ever moving thing, time for us to grab it by the balls Team!" He announced with a grin, before executing the commands that crashed everything a day ago.
With a chirp and an LED flaring in the darkened room, the sound of success was rudely interrupted by one of the Team breaking wind.
*sigh*
"Really.... Not the triumphant sound of a brass band there guys...." He said as he fell apart in hysterical laughter.
Meanwhile Toby, the guy currently losing himself in cleaning everything, kept finding his eyes drifting to his female colleague, he just knew it had been her to pass gas, proving such would be not at all worth pursuing in any case.
Jacob began passing out hot drinks, those being the reason for multiple high dosages of Caffeine today, as the whole team, had been losing lots of sleep for weeks as a result.
'Luckily this Team had avoided any scandals.... Unlike a few others.' Thought Jacob with a smirk, while remembering all of the office gossip about the drug fueled orgy and hallucinogenic induced nudist rampage, that had rapidly spread out from the business park, over to a nearby beach and somehow attracting a whole slew of tour bus to get redirected to the Beach as well.
He would have been more upset about not being invited, if it had not been for the event involving a sports team, a travelling circus and a church fete coming to pass as a result of craziness seeming to propogate itself all in the locality, the government grants to promote business being a powerful draw to all sorts of people.
'Really glad to have avoided that part at least' He thought while suffering a full body shudder at the headlines in the media of late.
'Rubber Gloves used in unwholesome ways with Peanut Butter, was most definitely not newsworthy, but nothing stopped the Broadcasters from spouting drivel' Lamented Jacob while mentally replaying the same awful somg that Tony had been muttering and humming along with.
Jacob sneakily smuggled in some treats from the Kitchenette, while slowly chowing down on a choc chip cookie and savouring the taste.
Juliana meanwhile was racing through the checks for stability, no worrying exclamations or panicked yells for help today at least.
Interns were rather absent lately after most of them were pulled back to other departments.
'Execs trying to cover their asses at everyone elses expense, no surprise.' Jacob mused to himself.
Toby meanwhile was back to work at his keyboard, cleansing finally over and done with, inputting lots of data into new programming, formats converted to use the old Binary standards as a form of Backwards compatibility, virtual machines running Binary on Ternary Hardware.
Anything new however would avoid all of the old compatibilty clashes, bloatware and be far more efficient as a result.