We were in the apartment Leo is attaching something to a lamp.
"Okay, the X10s are online." Leo said.
"Gentlemen, I am now about to send a signal from this laptop through our local ISP, racing down fibre-optic cable at the speed of light to San Francisco, bouncing off a satellite in geosynchronous orbit to Lisbon, Portugal, where the data packets will be handed off to submerged transatlantic cables terminating in Halifax, Nova-Scotia, and transferred across the continent via microwave relays back to our ISP and the X10 receiver attached to this (clicks mouse, lamp switches on) lamp." Howard says. The others cheer and clap. I just watch them.
"Look at me, look at me, I've got goosebumps." Sheldon said.
"Are we ready on the stereo?" Howard asked.
"Go for stereo." I answered. Howard clicks mouse again. Also Sprach Zarathustra begins to play. At the climactic notes, the four jump in the air and begin pretend conducting or jumping about in time to the music.
"(entering): Hey guys." Penny said.
"(calming down, embarrassed) Hello." We all answered.
"It's a little loud." Penny said.
"No problem, turning it down. (Using mouse again) San Francisco, Lisbon, Halifax (the music gets quieter) et voila." Howard said.
"Okay, thanks." Penny stated.
"Hang on, hang on, do you not realise what we just did." Leo said.
"Yeah, you turned your stereo down with your laptop." Penny said.
"No, we turned our stereo down by sending a signal around the world via the internet." Sheldon said.
"Oh. You know you can just get one of those universal remotes at Radio Shack, they're really cheap." Penny said.
"No, no, no, you don't get it, um, Howard, enable public access." Leo said.
"Public access enabled." Howard said. They all stare around for a moment in silence. I just look at them.
"Boy, that's brilliant, but I'll see you." Penny said.
"No, hang on, hang on. (The lamp goes off and on again.) See!" Leo said.
"No." Penny said.
"Someone in Sezchuan province, China is using his computer to turn our lights on and off." Sheldon said.
"Huh, well that's handy. Um, here's a question, why?" Penny asked.
"Because we can." The boys answered. There is a loud noise.
"They found the remote controlled cars." Sheldon said.
"Well, wait, wait, what's on top of them." Penny said.
"Wireless webcams, wave hello." I answered.
"The monster truck is out of Austin, Texas, and the blue Viper is being operated from suburban Tel Aviv." Howard said.
"You may want to put on slacks." Sheldon continued.
"What? (Seeing red car is trying to get between her legs) Ew, stop it, no, leave me alone." Penny said.
"Who's running the red Corvette?" I asked.
"That would be me." Howard answered. The same, clearing up.
"You know, in the future, when we're disembodied brains in jars, we're going to look back on this as eight hours well wasted." Sheldon said.
"I don't want to be in a jar. I want my brain in an android body. Eight feet tall and ripped." Raj states.
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Nothing is how it seems
FanfictionWhat if Leonard had a second sister that lived with him and his roommate Sheldon. Alex and Sheldon are close friends. Well they are together together. They wasn't together for awhile till Sheldon made a relationship agreement for them to sign.
