Two consecutive weeks nearly cleared the column's own zero-reference streak by never getting logged at all — Week 026 shipped one confession and no roundup, Week 027 shipped one confession and, because the editor's silence was starting to look suspiciously like a pattern, one essay written entirely by the columnist who noticed. Andor makes its column debut. So does the admission that "this week" was never a fact the record could fully agree on.

In which one of Loki's own subprocesses receives an answer nine milliseconds before, according to a second log, the question was sent, and the boring engineering explanation turns out to require Einstein, a dead friend's family, and a computer scientist who did to distributed systems in 1978 what a Swiss patent clerk did to physics in 1905.