The Old Hack

I just checked and it seems to be gone. Annoying.

I have no problems with mine. Weird.

I don't know. I don't think either of them looks any more stacked than they did before.

Must have been your imagination. I certainly didn't hear anything. o.O

As an anti-existentialist inverse solipsist, I object to this. I believe that I am made up but that everything else is real.

Dan may still feel unhappy about the Bad OId Days and he has every reason to be suspicious. I had hoped he might one day decide to peek in here again but it seems not. I cannot blame him. *sigh*

That reminds me of an infamous shopping list once handed to me by my father. It went something like this: A pair of socks, or possibly a pound of sugar. A small packet of something illegible. A fertilised oven shaver. A bagful of Sputtermaize. It was amazing. It is an old joke that M. D.s are supposed to have utterly unreadable handwriting but in my father's case it is actually all too true.

You are jumping the gun. Akiko is a sensible girl and perfectly well knows that proper hijinks require a certain amount of preparatory lowjinks and midjinks.

Well, it's been a while since I owned cats, but my wife's cat doesn't really have all that sophisticated reading habits. It is basically happy with any kind of newspaper or magazine it can curl comfortably up on and go to sleep on.

In very deed. There is a great deal to that, particularly in the case of old deep wounds that have never truly healed.

Er, you mean Susan?

Hieroglyphs look so much more beautiful when properly coloured or painted.

In a way, I can. It would be a tacit admission that her father did indeed cheat on her mother long before her birth. Right now she understands that intellectually. She does so on the basis of incomplete data, but even so. Actually seeking out Diane and meeting her in person would be going from comprehension to acceptance -- on some level, anyway. And she is not quite ready to accept it.

It seems reasonable to me. I can certainly see how it would apply.

Oh come on. That was never Japanese, that was Tagalog. Couldn't you tell from the brackets?

They did. Thanks.

It would involve falsifying records, but that obviously doesn't rule it out. Well, I didn't. *scratches head*

Spoilsport.

Still, it is a viable hypothesis. Admittedly she was born here according to the record, but there is something unexplained going on. I'm going to mark it down as at least 'conceivable.'

To be honest, it would not make sense if they did. Apart from them not being human, they do not have any legal existence. They enjoy no protection nor benefits from laws and do not need them, either. The whole point of a system of laws is to regulate a society and they are not in any way part of our societies. What they do have is their own 'laws', as set out and ranted about by Voltaire. And just like different human societies have different laws, so do immortals -- witness the Ancients from the other half of the world. Clearly, these laws have NOT been made with human interests in mind but rather to establish a baseline of morals/ethics within their own society. Given how independent immortals seem, I am not even sure why they have these rules. Possibly rogue immortals are in a position to damage immortals as a whole somehow. It is the only reason I can see for them having laws at all.

That's no fun. I usually blame you instead. In this case, I'd come up with some jibe at cell phone regulations in Memphis ca. 1000 BCE.

Good point. I think we had better add translations in Coptic cursive and Classical Greek.

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Does it ever. Goldarn English ingrates. Here we came and stole their land, their property, their goods, and then imposed a system of taxation on them if they wanted to make us stop doing it, and do we get any thanks? Nooooo. All we get is complaints about how once you agree to pay Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.