Mac Mackenzie

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Character: Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie
Series: Veronica Mars
Character Age: 18

Canon: If Veronica Mars is the spunky teenage girl detective equivalent of James Bond, then Mac is her Q. Mac is Neptune High School's resident computer nerd; she's a whiz at anything related to electronics and the web. She has gadgets and gizmos a plenty, and has no qualms about milking the allowances of the rich kids of her high school in order to buy herself a new VW bug. (She creates and implements an internet "purity test" that allows students to buy their peers' results for $10. Mac makes bank.) She's softspoken but quick-witted and clever; she banters with the best of them. She's also openminded -- but still teenager enough to think that the principal's nerdy son is traumatizing to go to prom with.

Spoilers continue in white! Mac hires Veronica to investigate her parents because she's always felt that she doesn't belong: they're more "nachos and NASCAR" and she's more "falafels and Fellini". Veronica discovers that Mac was switched at birth at the hospital; Mac should have grown up in a rich home with class, its own library, and multiple family trips around the world. She ultimately accepts that she was instead given to a family that goes on biannual camping trips to the boonies, but only just.

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It wasn't like it was hard to find -- it was one of Youtube's daily featured videos. I just got curious -- who posts videos about dead fiances and emergency defense mechanisms? What's "CFUD" mean exactly? Okay, so it's the internet and I should've googled it and these things shouldn't be all that surprising, but I figured I could do a quick check and see where it'd been posted from. Mostly I wanted to see if it was one of those MMORPGs, only with definitive crazy camp director flair! I could sit back and mock.

Let me say, Miss Biztheinsane (if that's even your real name), this does not look like Maine. Either you've got programs set up to alter your IP and thus your location -- and it's not hard, Tor and Piroxy are easy enough to figure out -- or there's something going on here that's really messed up. I figured it was just a joke anyway, but when someone wakes up to a masked guy -- he looked really... furry. But I think the color was a trick of the light -- hulking over her bed one starts to figure out really fast that it's not a joke. And it should be. Because what, is this a set for a cancelled Jason movie? Or a reality TV show? If it's a reality show then it's gonna be on AMC or something, isn't it. "Watch as we use old horror movie sets to surprise unsuspecting co-eds." Really funny. The impersonators are a good touch too -- unless they all just got lost on their way to a convention.

I have to wonder why it's all Livejournal based. So easy to get into and -- not at all secure, y'know? They try, but you can still get around it. And don't you get sick of the crashes? "Oh no, I can't comment because LJ hates me ;_;" and that. And oh, it's really nice that you gave me this laptop to work with, but I brought my own. MacBook Pro -- got it for graduation. I've modded it a little, applied the thermal gel myself! So you can... throw this in the lake if you --. You guys have a big budget, don't you? Animatronics, right, with the tentacles and the --.

I'm not going to jump to conclusions or anything but you really need to fire your make-up crew. Those dismembered limbs don't look realistic at all. ... Neither do the walking dead. Too much rot, not enough maggots?

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So there's this option I have to make my own widgets. For my computer. And I think I'm gonna get started on "today's zombie forecast".