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.So Bertie has been jerking all of usaround.Yeah.Juan shrugged and lowered his head. So how do these goggles work, anyway?Miri seemed to stew over Annette for a few seconds more.Then she shrugged too. Remember, this equipment is old.She held up her pair of goggles and showed him some slide controls in theheadstrap. There's even a physical  onbutton, right here. Okay. Juan slipped the goggles over his head and pulled the strap tight.Theheadset must have weighed two or three ounces.It was an awkward lump comparedto contact lenses.Watching himself from the outside, he looked fully bizarre.The whole top of his face was a bulbous, gray-brown tumor.He could see Miriam was trying not to laugh. Okay, let's see what it can do.He pressed the  on button.Nothing.His enhanced view was the same as before.But when he cleared hiscontact lenses and looked out with his naked eyes "It's pitch dark frominside, can't see a thing. Oh! Miri sounded a little embarrassed. Sorry.Take off your goggles for aminute.We need an emreb. She picked up one of the heavy-looking  milkcartons". Meaning? MRE/B. She spelled the word. Oh. Meal Ready to Eat, with Battery.Page 23ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlFast Times at Fairmont High by Vernor Vinge43 Yes, one of the little pluses of military life. She twisted it in themiddle, and the carton split in two. The top half is food for the Marine, andthe bottom half is power for the Marine's equipment. There were lettersphysically stenciled on the food container: something about chicken withgravy, and dehydrated ice cream. I tried eating one of these once. She madea face. Fortunately, that won't be necessary tonight.She picked up the bottom half of the emreb, and drew out a fine wire. This isa weak point in my planning.These batteries are way stale. The goggles may be dead anyway. Juan's own clothes often wore out before heoutgrew them.Sometimes a few launderings was enough to zap them. Oh, no.They built this milspec junk to be tough. Miri set down the battery pack and bent Juan's goggles into a singlehandful. Watch this. She wound up like a softball pitcher and threw thegoggles into the wall.The gear smashed upwards into the wall and caromed loudly off the ceiling.Miriam ran across the room to pick up what was left.Col.Gu's voice wafted down the stairwell. Hey! What are you kids doing downthere?Miri stood up and giggled behind her hand.Suddenly she looked about ten yearsold. It's okay, Alice! She shouted back. I just, um, dropped something. On the ceiling? Sorry! I'll be more careful.She walked back to Juan and handed him the goggles. See, she said. Hardly a scratch.Now we supply power,"Fast Times at Fairmont High by Vernor Vinge44She plugged the wire from the battery into the gogglesheadband.  and you try them again.He slid the goggles over his eyes and pressed  on".Monochrome reds wavered for a moment, and then he was looking at a strange,grainy scene.The view was not wraparound, just slightly fisheye.In it,Miri's face loomed large, peering in at him.Her skin was the color of a hotoven, and her eyes and mouth glowed bluish-white. This looks like thermal infrared, except that the color scheme wasn'tstandard. Yup.That's the default startup.Notice how the optics are built right intothe gear? It's kind of like camping clothes: you don't have to depend on alocal network.That's going to be a win when we get to Torrey Pines.Try someother sensors;you can get help by sliding the  on button. Hey, yes!THE FOLLOWING BLOCK QUOTE MUST BE IN A CONSTWIDTH FONT SUCH AS COURIERBAT:LOW SENSORS BAT2:LOWPASSIVE ACTIVEVIS AMP OK GPR NANIR OK SONO NAPage 24ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html>TIR OK XECHO NASNIFF NA GATED VIS NAAUDIO NA GATED NIR NASIG NAFast Times at Fairmont High by Vernor Vinge45The tiny menu floated in the corner of his right eye's view.The battery warning was blinking.He fiddled with his head band and found apointing device. Okay, now I'm seeing in full color, normal light.Boogersresolution, though. Juan turned around and then back to Miri.He laughed. The menu window is fully bizarre, you know.It just hangs there at the edgeof my view.How can I tag it to the wall or a fixed object? You can't.I told you this gear is old.It can't orient worth zip.And evenif it could, its little pea-brain isn't fast enough to do image slews. Huh. Juan knew about obsolete systems, but he didn't use them much.Withequipment like this, there could be no faerie overlays.Even ordinary thingslike interior decoration would all have to be real.There were lots of other boxes, but no inventory data.Some of them must have belonged to the Goofus; they had handwritten labels,like  Prof.and Mrs.William Gu, Dept ofEnglish, UC Davis and  William Gu Sr., Rainbow's End, Irvine, CA".Miricarefully moved these out of the way. Someday William will know what do to with all this.Or maybe grandmother willchange her mind, and come visit us again.They opened more of the USMC boxes and poked around [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]