Syd and Casey, Part 2 Flashcards

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  1. Start, I have first line.
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  1. What are you doing?
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  1. Clearing the house…up for grabs.
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  1. Let’s get one thing straight. Picking the houses we clear, that’s my job. I do that by myself.
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  1. It was unmarked. I’m sorry, I was just trying to help out.
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  1. And I appreciate that, but there’s a very specific way that all this needs to get done.
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  1. That’s fine. Show me what to do.
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  1. Wouldn’t you rather just watch a movie or something?
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  1. No, I’d like to serve as a productive member of my community.
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  1. Are you making fun of me again?
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  1. Am I?
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  1. Nevermind. Did you collect all the batteries?
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  1. Batteries?
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  1. Yes, step one is collecting batteries. From appliances, clocks, smoke alarms, anything. That’s the most valuable resource.
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  1. And then collecting electronics…right?
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  1. Yes. Remind me to show you the huge collection of DVDs at the library. I watch them on laptops, portable players, anything I can get my hands on. You like comedies?
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  1. Yeah, yeah, I like comedies.
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  1. We’ve got a a whole section that’s just comedy films, and not just the mainstream stuff either. Some of the titles have been out of print for—
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  1. I guess they’re all out of print now, technically.
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  1. Did you clean out the fridge?
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  1. Why?…it’s not like…after we leave.
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  1. You ever learn about entropy in school? It’s understood as a measure of disorder, the capacity for randomness in a given system.
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  1. I took biology, I know what entropy is.
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  1. Think about the implications. The more entropy in a system, the more potential for chaos.
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  1. Variables upon variables. Endlessly unpredictable outcomes.
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  1. Right. But when you reduce the amount of entropy is a system, you can control for error.
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  1. So every piece…disorder in the universe?
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  1. Exactly!
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  1. Man, what I wouldn’t give for some Neapolitan ice cream right now.
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  1. What’s that?
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  1. You’re joking, right? The three flavors?
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  1. I guess I don’t have much of a sweet tooth.
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  1. Your loss. Wait, what happens if there’s no disorder in a system.
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  1. In theory, you could predict stunning accuracy almost everything that will ever happen in that system.
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  1. But why would you want to know…that seems so dull.
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  1. It’s comforting, it’s gives me peace. That’s just me though.
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  1. You know, I envy you. You were asleep…find the world had changed.
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  1. I guess.
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  1. It must have been nice…I couldn’t believe…bodies…And me, just driving through it.
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  1. Yup. All getting caught in your tires, or whatever.
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  1. Every time I saw one…tunnel…I’d make myself start over…I don’t know why…It was stupid.
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  1. What happened when you saw clusters of them all at once?