February 29, 2020

Act Hacked

If you’re going to connect your robotic theater to the Internet, make the password more creative than shakespeare123. It took me ten minutes to hack it.

My mother told me not to cause trouble. She also told me to create art. You can see my dilemma.

It started small, like making Hamlet declare “To pee or not to pee,” then changing every instance of “cat” to “pig” in a certain musical. To be fair, Pigs was sold out for six months.

They caught me eventually, after I added a techno remix to Phantom. The good news I’m on salary now.

About David Stewart

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This entry was posted on Saturday, February 29th, 2020 at 12:52 am and tagged with fiction, flash fiction, Friday Fictioneers, hacking, Hamlet, humor, musicals, robots, theater and posted in Friday Fictioneers, Light. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

17 responses to “Act Hacked”

neilmacdon
February 29th, 2020 at 2:48 am

Lovely (and plausible) whimsy, David

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rochellewisoff
February 29th, 2020 at 5:28 am

Dear David,

The last line is just a little on the frightening side. Love the story and always happy to read your voice. I imagine you’ve encountered some good photo ops in Vietnam, yes? (hint hint)

Shalom,

Rochelle

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- David Stewart
  March 4th, 2020 at 3:58 am
  
  It’s been pretty good so far. I’ve been here about a week and have a few more days to go before I move on to some other countries in the area. I’ll post of the best ones here, I promise. 🙂
  
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The Writer's Village
February 29th, 2020 at 8:58 am

cute one.
Randy

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Iain Kelly
February 29th, 2020 at 5:14 pm

It would certainly reinvigorate some of those plays and musicals that seem to have run endlessly for decades, if not longer! 🙂

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Björn Rudberg (brudberg)
March 1st, 2020 at 10:53 am

Stealing with pride is still stealing, isn’t it?

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- David Stewart
  March 4th, 2020 at 3:55 am
  
  True, but it’s kind of like in the movie Catch Me if You Can where the FBI finally catch the forger and then he’s so good, they gets him to work for them. It guess it’s a case of being so bad you’re good. 🙂
  
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Nobbinmaug
March 1st, 2020 at 1:29 pm

So, that’s how to break into the business, literally.

Good one. I’ve never seen Cats, but I would probably go see Pigs.

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- David Stewart
  March 4th, 2020 at 3:53 am
  
  I’ve actually never seen it either. Apparently the plot is that it has cats in it. But it’s been performing for so long, I’m sure Pigs would have quite an resurgence just from novelty.
  
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msjadeli
March 1st, 2020 at 8:07 pm

Humorous take on the prompt. We are all at the mercy of hackers.

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- David Stewart
  March 4th, 2020 at 3:52 am
  
  If only all of them were as fun-loving. 🙂
  
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Susan A Eames
March 2nd, 2020 at 5:20 am

Exellent, imaginative take on the photo prompt, David. Thanks for making me smile.

Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos

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- David Stewart
  March 4th, 2020 at 3:50 am
  
  Thanks, Susan. Glad you liked it.
  
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granonine
March 2nd, 2020 at 9:28 am

Changing cats to pigs is pure genius 🙂 Fun take on the prompt.

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- David Stewart
  March 4th, 2020 at 3:49 am
  
  Thanks! It was fun to write.
  
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Dawn M. Miller
March 2nd, 2020 at 8:24 pm

…a techno remix…perfect!

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- David Stewart
  March 4th, 2020 at 3:49 am
  
  Yeah, I could see it. 🙂
  
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