It looks like Lauren is AWOL (absent without laughs) on us. Anybody want to guess why? My two choices would be:

1. His whole farm was producing so much heat trying to catch me that the whole thing went up in flames. He tried to rescue some of his precious GPUs, got burned and is now in the hospital. Let's hope not.

2. The little guys that SETI have been looking for found out about his obsession with crunching and being number one. They came and got him to see what makes him tick.

Both guesses are probably wrong, at least I hope so.

Earth to Lauren, where are you?