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Methinks they want us to spell ASUS without the 'U'
So I took delivery of an Eee PC today ( Read more... ) -
It's not safe to walk the Streets of Edinburgh this night...
...without be accosted every 50 yards by advertising boards pimping -- in association with a chain of bakers not actually open at this hour -- The Edinburgh Evening News's Free Doughnut promotion.
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When attempting to stop a bank run...
..repeatedly and urgently telling people not to panic in heavy tones of reassurance, just causes even more people to freak out and panic.
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A spectre is haunting the Servers - the spectre of Nerfism!
So today's entirely unoriginal early morning hypnopompically induced blinding insight, destined to evaporate into 'what was I thinking?' within a mere three hours, is:
"You know all that political 'debate' stuff? Yeah, well it's entirely, exactly, completely the same as class balance and current and future and desired patch 'debate' on a MMORPG's ( Read more... ) -
Meanwhile, elsewhere
The random livejournal of o-playas, informs me:
It's a drummer Vladimir Vasilkov and his boys. Unreleased material
from USSR, good done!
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In Reruns: Craving
From January 1998.
Reposted because mmcirvin reminded me of his fabled Magnum Opus (written at age 10) Watch Your Brain as part of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day.
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James "Kibo" Parry wrote:
WATCH MY BRAIN!!!
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We were watching the brain.
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Aide Memoire
I'm putting this notion of wizwom's here, who mentioned it in this thread of james_nicoll, to make sure I remember it when I need it later.
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"PG rated seduction-bot." -
That Old Timey Pushbutton Future of Yesteryear
Clearly, the only thing more futuristic than Steam-Powered Zeppelins, are Steam-Powered Zeppelins of THE ATOM; built and maintained by the ether-Mechanics -- sterling heroes of the engineering sciences all! -- of the Venusian Forestry Commission out of their Clockwork Treetop Research Aeries in the Southern Highlands of that world ( Read more... ) -
My Muse Speaks!
Unfortunately she just says "Mumbai Chocolate Breakdown" repeatedly, and I really don't seem to be getting any clues about where to go from there.
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Deus ex machina
FABRICMAN! descends from the gods on wire pulleys and bits of string, swaying from side to side as if possessed by the demon drink. And the drink of demons. High like a sealing wax junkie man. He rotates, he spins, he twirls with uncontrolled acceleration. As was foretold, all voodoo like straight-up, no messing ( Read more... )