Gahhh!!! - A Geek's Lament

[yakalskovich]

I see why photobucket.com needs to place advertising on every page when you upload and so forth; they have to get the money back from somewhere for the great service they're providing.

But this is going too far: there's this totally obnoxious rich media ad haunting my bucket where this  badly animated chick that looks like one of those Japanese combine-them-yourself icons lurks for you to touch her with your mouse cursor, to start squawking in the most jarring American accent, "Hi, my name is Tina, and in the next thirty seconds..." yadda yadda yadda.

I long to reply: "Hi, you name is nothing, you stupid cow from Arizona, because you don't bloody exist! Get that into your nonexistent head!"

I am avoiding her like an electric cattle fence, but I don't always succeed.

ETA: ("For the loan of a flagpole and two dozen cups" and all that.) Please be warned that There Be Spoilers for Going Postal  in the comments; they just turned up by themselves.

Comments

[weallscream.livejournal.com]

Right. So. BS Johnson, sometime before 'the end' for the post office invented a better sorting machine by making pi exactly 3. This caused quantum (twice) and they started getting letters to send before they had been written. Some wizards who used lingo that makes me think 'Ponder and pals', thought this was brilliant, but then it all got to be too much and they started recieving letters that only had the possibility of being written (Ponder, in his Reader of Invisible Writtings capacity must have had an orgasm). The wizards advised not shutting it down, lets it destroy the universe, but them one of the postal workers got fed up and shut it down anyway. The wizards declared the universe had been destroyed, and then remade in the same second, and you could tell by looking.

It sounds to me like we could say this happened, and when it was remade, the post office had been in ruin for years. Trousers of time sort of thing.

[yakalskovich]

BS Johnson was around less than thirty years ago??

Underworld, that man is elusive, time-wise!! He bloody did some work for Lady Sybil's grandfather, another piece of canon claims.

And yes, that sounds like a very, very good explanation for it all, canon continuity and RPG continuity wise. I think I will have to link this conversation from the comm in a few days's time when more people have read it so they get to know what happened for us - we had the universe destroyed. Nothing easier than that.

Some people do claim that is actually what happens from moment to moment and causes time, as far as I know. And it most certainly is what a computer screen does. So it is true for us.

[weallscream.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

[yakalskovich]

Yes, between us, we know managed to save the universe, or at least the small part that's under our influence. Or, if not save it, at least explain it.

And the universe can just as well be terribly unsaved for all practical purposes, or at least a large part of them. It has no influence on Beth almost openly (!!!) talking relationships (!!!) with his dear Mster Wizard (!!!).

[weallscream.livejournal.com]

Yes, will that be continuing? Ponder's got more to say...

[yakalskovich]

Yes!!! I already continued it just now. I closed the reply window on an error message before, I think; but I replied again, and it is there now.

Beth thinks it fatally cute...