The Old Hack

Well duh. That's open and shut.

I'll stick with Windows 7.

And then some Spartans throw it into the air and it ends its career as air pollution.

This kind of reminds me of Catbert making a policy change that was incredibly aggravating yet did not actually achieve anything. He then sits for a moment, trying to think of a justification for it he can append to the policy. He finally settles for, "Because I hate you all."

A sufficiently sized ego will normally have no problems. However, unusual situations may arise even for them at times.

They do the coding, you do the cooing. Seems like a fair division of labour.

Very true. Nonetheless, I have the feeling that this is not something that happens to Pandora often. Especially when they reach plurals.

Just keep an eye out for ninja and pools with sharks in them, and you'll be all right. Mind you, if someone passes you a stash of uncut diamonds it will be time for you to be careful. In that case, make sure that your sexy assistant and driver (Mrs. Prof) has the engine warm and ready for a fast escape.

Eh, we did see him play with a ball of yarn once, didn't we?

It's too small to be an insurance agent.

Box is... interesting throughout today's page. Much more quiet, pensive and... no, restrained is not the right word. 'Subdued', perhaps. Which is almost frightening in its own right. It gives me a feeling of a potent and knowledgeable being contemplating matters that makes even her feel small.

The Moderator: While I understand your indignation, I am afraid that this is rather necroposting. My apologies but I am locking the thread.

Try to imagine that you are wearing full kit. Now you get told that you also have to carry the squad radio. This radio, as it happens, turns out to be a WW2 hand-me-down that weighs around 40 lbs. Now imagine that you get told to march along one of the roads the Germans laid down in order to improve communications between various key defense points on the western coast of Jutland. These are always straight as a ruler. You get told to cover twenty miles and they are all straight ahead. No turns, little variation in elevation, barely any change in the landscape at all. Mental exhaustion from boredom gradually reaches the point where you do not even notice your physical tiredness anymore. It becomes an effort of will to put one foot in front of another, not because you are tired (though you are) but because you can no longer see any point to doing so. If you are making any progress at all, it is beyond your ability to quantify how much. Now imagine you are using Windows. See? Two minutes of that, and you are already longing for the time where you were marching in full kit on that bollocking ruler-straight road.

A very busy day indeed! At least it seemed productive rather than frustrating. And I like that UT Southwestern are so quick off the mark -- somehow that seems to bode well to me. Agreed. In fact, I believe Vorlonagent may be too conservative in his estimate. I suspect they will be repeating not merely the important points but also the lesser ones well into next week.

Good! I hope the cars will live up to it. (I am still amused at the low-carb Hondas you told us about recently. At least, I am assuming that their carburators kept exploding because they were low-carb.) I am not much of a cook but I do know that good food is a great balm for the soul. Hope you will have a good weekend!

Indeed. A deep impact.

I find Sir Patrick Stewart immensely amusing in his own right. Here he is combining his skills with a tribute to Monty Python.

Obviously. Since when wasn't it? They had a significant technological edge, too. They used catapults powered by Sacred Rubber Bands.

Nah, she is there to tell Sarah that it is safe for her to go to Canada now. Magic and witchcraft just got legalised there, I hear.

I couldn't afford the skulls. Not in this economy.

This is why you don't monkey around with politicians. They are better at it than anyone else.

Well, no wonder! Those idiot Spartans could have told themselves that. After all, Athens invented democracy, so the entire core of their carp flinging units consisted of politicians.

You ever have problems with accidental Transformers? I mean, they didn't used to be so bad but ever since Michael Bay got involved with them you don't see them around without tons of insane explosions accompanying them.

Oh great, now the Death Eaters will form perfectly legal chapters up there and Voldemort will take over the world with an army of Quebecoise. Thanks, Canada.

That's terrifying. I am now envisioning thousands of Persians fitting carp to the drawstrings of their bows. Though that explains how all those carp got up there to begin with. The Persians started out with lots of practice volleys just to see how far they could shoot, and with that large number of carp shot upwards and then falling towards the ground, statistically speaking some of them had to miss.