I suddenly became aware that Haruhi was breaking the rules.  Something... had<em>changed.</em>Or had it always been that way?  I couldn't pinpoint what was going on, and somehow, in my distraction, I drank the rest of the cup of tea, not at all certain why I was doing what I was doing.  I was like a spaceship that had gone through a wormhole, stranded on the wrong side of the sector with no recon.  At least, not until I micromanaged myself into a better position.<br/><br/>Bits of code flashed through my head.  There is something about operating a computer.  It's like reading a book, but...  better, somehow.  Haruhi was looking at something on the computer and drooling.  I needed to know what she was seeing.  It would be a simple and relaxing matter to hack her desktop and draw out the data.  There was no alternative.<br/><br/>I stood up and placed my book in the cabinet, then repositioned myself in front of one of the SOS brigade laptops.  I experienced another malfunction as I switched the power on, a tingle thorough much of my body.  I considered the possibility that the laptop power switch was not properly grounded, but it was obvious that my body had simply experienced something that wasn't there.  The malfunction is fairly consistent any time I operate a computer.  It has grown... less and less bothersome to me.<br/><br/>My fingers flew across the keyboard.<em>Stay under keyboard buffer, maximize RAM usage, stop memory leaks as they occur.</em>It was all delightfully simple.  I had time to complete 2,640 games of minesweeper and 992 games of solitare in the time it took me to see Haruhi's desktop.  She was looking at pictures of Mikuru in a state of undress.  446 games of minesweeper later, I realized that the pictures might actually be classified as erotic.  I clicked on a mine and the little smiley face died.  A millisecond later, I entered text into a binary editor and my entire system crashed, displaying a blue screen that seemed to be judging me.  My fingers pawed at the screen, my body shaking.<br/><br/>That blue screen was very very similar to closed space.