The evening news was over, and Prime Time had not yet begun. Sam and Ursula had finished the evening meal, and Travis was on the phone again. "Right back at ya Sam," was his introduction. "Do you _know_ a really GOOD hack?" Sam turned this over in his mind. This capability gave him a certain cache with his friends - given a few words of jargon he could usually say a little bit about almost ANYTHING! "Social, computer or a just-a-hack hack?" he queried in response. It was Travis' turn to pause, but introspection was his motive. "I don't really care... I just wanna make an impression." Sam allowed an appropriate pause before he again queried "On whom?" Sam had an irritating habit of being as good at grammar as he could, in spite the fact that every body knows you're gonna make a mistake and Mrs. Kirkpatrick is gonna write you up in the Elementary School of God just for opening your mouth. He mentally shrugged and replied without rancor, "I found a news-group online and it's only got one rule. To POST, you gotta post a hack." "Must make for a boring site; do they even know what it _means_ to Flame someone? Posting un-moderated to any site on earth is an invitation to flame bait. The only _possible_ way that site is any good is if these hackers are the old kind - _Innovators_." "Oh, that's the _sweet_ aspect - it's a hack just to Post!" Travis was practically glowing. "It's a selective process on readers and commenters alike... it's the Hacker newsgroup of the whole world!" Hmmm, must be Blogspot domain was Sam's thought. "Well it doesn't sound _too_ important," was his informative reply. "I'd just go with one of the old Chemical ones. You know, Sodium IN the water, Phosphorous OUT of the water, Baking Soda and Vinegar or liquid litmus in Beer. Just be sure you warn them that teachers get in real trouble when you use too much sodium, and you REALLY shouldn't try addin' Water to Acid." Again his thought differed from his comment -It would be a HACK just to get them to _Listen_. He briefly wondered if we was already crazy. "Perfect," was Travis' enthusiastic reply. "Later gater." "After a while crocodile." "Thanks for the warning, now I'll see ya comin'," "Not if I see you first!" They hung up.
Ursula smiled at Sam. "It was nice of you to just tell him and not make him work too hard for it" she said with atypically shallow insight. "He had to pull me out of a Louisiana Swamp not once but TWICE," Sam explained. Ursula giggled and he quickly added, "I was testing out a friend's four wheel drive." "That was _probably_ the second time too, right?" she smiled. His eye's twinkled in response. "Wouldn't have been able to even _find_ it otherwise!" They turned their attention on the _official_ entertainment of the evening.
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