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Logically Speaking, Period 6, 9 Jun '09

"Good afternoon, everyone," Mohinder started, his French just a little rusty. "If everyone will take a seat we can start to talk about encryption."

Switching back into English he began passing round handouts. "Not that one language truely counts as an encryption of another. One language may have words that lack meaning or nuance in translation and changing one to another is not as simple as running through a set of fixed rules, as anyone who's used Babelfish or equivalents will have found out."

"Our most basic form of cryptogram is direct substitution, one letter always standing for another, with various methods for assigning the codes."

Mohinder went on to summarise the logic and processes of a few more cipher techniques before finishing - "You should all have enough information to code and decode your own messages, or the examples. Or if you're feeling ambitious taking a stab at the Voynich manuscript."

[OCD is up!]

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Via keysmash!

Claire ~~Bennet~~ Butler

Jon O'Neill

Valentine Wiggin

Yamanaka Ino

Gabrielle

Yakko Warner

Liir Thropp

As you are, right?

Claire was definitely listening and finding the whole lecture fascinating.

She may have glanced in a certain boy's direction a few times though.

And when she wasn't looking at him, he was looking at her. It might be amusing to others.

At some point, Claire tossed a note on Jon's desk.

How are you?

Jon smiled over at her and tossed a note back.

Good. Recovered from Insanity Week yet?

Claire smiled back.

Yeah, definitely. You?

Less traumatized than I thought I would be.

What was that supposed to mean? Was the idea of dating her that traumatizing?

That's good. I'm glad I didn't do anything horribly embarrassing after finally catching up with radio.

Jon remembered some of the things he'd heard on the radio and grinned.

Like turn someone into a mouse, or get caught in the Leto vortex.

Claire grinned back.

Exactly. All things considered, my weekend was pretty good.

Jon frowned and the next note was sent quickly.

Only pretty good? I'm slipping.

It would have only been better if we weren't under the influence of whatever was going on with the island. Maybe we should try again?

Claire tapped her pen against her bottom lip after sending that one. She hoped it wasn't too forward.

He smirked as he wrote out the next note.

Trying again is good. Your turn to pick. As long as it doesn't involve kilts, priests or mice.

Claire had to giggle when she read his note.

I think I can definitely manage that. How about dinner? Nice and simple.

Jon glanced at Mohinder and then sent back another note.

Cool. Where and When?

How do you feel about Mexican?

Is there a place on the island, or are you offering to cook?

There's a place on the island. Cooking involves common rooms which means the possibility of other people joining us.

Which wasn't very date-like, in her opinion.

Nope, not at all date like.

That would suck. When?

I work tomorrow... so Thursday?

Jon chuckled and dropped his head on the desk before he answered her.

I work Thursday. Friday?

Claire smiled.

Friday it is.

Heeeee. Ino thrummed her pen idly against her hands as she listened.

Notes, though, weren't really happening.

Oooh, codes. Gabrielle could totally get behind codes. Normally this'd be more of a visual thing, or a hand signal kind of deal -- though she and Xena never had gotten around to working one out -- as far as practical application for her went; literacy wasn't a readily available commodity among many of the people she dealt with.

Still. Codes! She was scribbling away intently on a fresh scroll in that odd non-Greek-looking script -- no, it wasn't a code to her, as much as it might look like one to everyone else.

Valentine was rather fond of codes and, to prove it, she was jotting down her notes in a very basic form of them. Very basic, calling up the notes that she and Ender would right with odd spellings and weird phrases to keep both Peter and the IF on certain occasions out of their business.

Yakko had a box of tissues for the people suffering from codes. Poor nasally congested people.

Ciphering or decoding (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/thelogiczone/crypto_index.htm), or passing (http://www.nsa.gov/kids/ciphers/ciphe00003.shtml) coded messages.

This was something Jon was really good at, that whole Black Ops thing came in handy sometimes. He might be a little rusty, but it was coming back pretty quickly.

By the time the exercise portion of the class came around, Gabrielle had come up with four different sets of codes.

All of them were ridiculously overcomplicated; she got carried away far too easily when she was enthusiastic about something.

Valentine hit up the examples, jotted down a few codes of her own, and then spent some time considering the challenging one. If some of the greatest coding minds didn't stand a chance, she held no delusions of grandeur that she'd be able to do anything with it, but it could be fun (or incredibly frustrating) to try.

Yakko spent the bulk of his time decoding the Voynich manuscript. "I've got it!" he cried out at long last. "It says 'up up down down left right left right b a start.'"

Over here.

Claire was definitely around.

He's around during and after class.

Claire hung around after class.

"Dr. Suresh? Do you have a minute?"

[And the mun crashed shortly post posting. Sorry]

Mohinder looked up from his notes. "Of course, Claire. What do you need?"

And done.

The Voynich manuscript fascinates me. Awesome reference.

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