You should pipe the names of all your members through an Umlautify filter prior to attaching them to a Bill. This makes things much more Metal when the Bill is referred to in the Press.

Hmmmm, a TV commercial just appeared on my TV, advertising TV commercials.

Oh dear, the Federal Reserve appears to have decided that my whacky financial wheeze of a few days ago, is like the bestest thing ever, and is actually something they should be doing.

Clearly, I have now (extra) doomed us all!

Muuuuuahahahahaahahaha.

So I gather that the world economy and all of us with it, is going to seize up with rigor mortis by the end of next week (if not sooner) because everyone and their dog is calling in their short term loans to anyone who isn't the Federal Reserve or the ECB or someone similarly central banky, reducing the interest rate they offer on the loans to those central banky people to virtually nothing at all whilst pushing up their short term rate for everyone else up to a level that WILL NUKE THE SITE OF ALL BUSINESS and OUR JOBS and THE NEXT PAYMENT OF OUR WAGES EVERYWHERE from ORBIT. That's if they're prepared to still lend at all to average schmoe companies that actually do real stuff in the real world.

If that's so, why aren't the central banky guys taking advantage of this arbitrage opportunity of a lifetime by taking up these offers of loans to them at such cheap cheap prices and then turning around and lending it all back out short term to those average schmoe companies at somewhat less than the LUDICROUS KILL THEM ALL rate, but still more than they had to pay? Wouldn't that make us all (with our taxpayer hats on) some dough on the interest rate spread, whilst simultaneously saving the world BY RE-ORBITING FINANCIAL MARS TO BECOME A NEW EARTH at the same time?

Or is that what they mean when they say they're 'injecting liquidity'? Or was that what the bailout thing, that didn't pass because everyone hates it for being the slush fund of a guy who looks very undead, and also being seven hundred billion hectares of taxpayers money long, was for?

Clearly I don't really get it. Or SOCIALISM or something.

So I took delivery of an Eee PC today.

And indeed it is indeed very cute, and very Pearl White, and my fingers are are just about small enough for the UK layout keyboard complete with '£' sign, and it has the renowned stupidly large black bezel around the screen and everything!

But ummm, well the out of the box text editing experience lacks just a little something for we English speakers here on the right hand side of the Atlantic Ocean.

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So my first impressions of the ASUS Eee PC...?

It is *indeed* 'Easy to Lean, Easy to Work, Easy to Play' for those values of Easy that involve dicking about at the Unix command line, understanding file permissions and ownership, what sudo is and does, reading man pages and online HOWTOs that assume you know your way around the default filepaths of an OpenOffice install so don't tell you what actually they are, and a certain dose of sheer bloody-mindedness. Or alternatively Easy for those of you in English speaking countries where they prefer spelling ASUS without the 'U'.

:)

...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.

Aaargh.

..repeatedly and urgently telling people not to panic in heavy tones of reassurance, just causes even more people to freak out and panic.

Sheesh, already. It's not rocket science, all you officially reasurring people.

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 official boards. Only with like, more real world implications man! And vice versa!"

Yep, obviously I'm in dire need of an urgent coffee infusion or something here, before I go and do something really stupidly embarrassing like start posting on TerraNova.

...but, nevertheless, watch out for the eternal floating PvP vs PvE balance flamewar. It been really very very nasty recently, and it's now getting to the point where instead of just driving you insane, it'll drive you insane, spit you out and then kill you dead.

Literally.

Even for those of us lucky enough to be playing current FotM classes on the stable servers.

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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The crowd roars. The crowd howls.

"GOOD done! Good DONE! GOOD DONE!" they chant, raising their aether torches to the skies, sending light and shadows to dance out onto across the cavernous stage. Yes, indeed, Comrade Valsilkov is a popular man!

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The musics of the Soviet, is never the same again!

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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Suddenly I realised that it was _this_, not watching the brain, that would be the solution to all our problems. From that point forward I knew that this was something that the world had to know.

My one duty was get the word out.