What do I do when I finish the epic "For All Nails" timeline? Why, start reading the excellent Drowned Baby Timeline, that's what! It's an exploration of what might happen if Hitler drowned as a baby, and what with Poles (counter)invading Germany, Il Duce getting the Bomb, and Göring in Rick's role in a Casablanca-esque scenario - how could I resist? And I've only read up to part 15!
Of course, I have learned something from my previous experiences, and last time I was reading it I only stayed up to quarter-past eleven, rather than quarter-to four. ;) It probably doesn't help that I'm reading all of the comments that were made at the time, as well. Anyway, hooray for soc.history.what-if, and the people who have time to write cool stuff.
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Speaking of newsgroups and history, people may be interested in the Zumabot's Tale, which talks about someone who spammed the soc.* groups in the mid-nineties whenever the words "Armenia" or "Turkey" turned up with pro-Turkish propoganda, but didn't distinguish between the country and the bird. I would have said that those days are over, and the internet community is too diverse to be affected by something like that again - but I remember when Network Solutions (who look after the .com domains) changed things so if you asked for a domain that didn't exist, they gave you back a page that offered to sell it to you. A similarly wide variety of people were annoyed and inconvenienced, so I guess the web is still small enough.
By the by, I've occasionally caught myself using/thinking of "interweb" as if it were a real word. Very worrying.
Oh, and if this is going to be a webbish comment, I figure I'd point people at Google Gulp, on the off-chance people hadn't seen it.
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Work has been slightly crazy - I think that the main reason is that a number of people are feeling rushed, so they're more careless about what they type & do, which means that a number of systems that are moderately fragile break or produce odd results.Lots of chasing around after misdiagnosed problems, or fixing weird situations. Among the things that aren't helping is that I'm feeling vaguely feverish - not enough that I can justify losing a day's pay, but enough to be unpleasant. Still, all in all I'd rather be too busy than having heaps of time on my hands at the moment.
Not that I'm sorry that there's only two days until the trailer is due. :)
Apparently we'll get to see the trailer at an upcoming oh-so-inappropriately named Monthlies, which will be the first we've had this year. I'll be interested to see how things look - of course, I won't be able to say anything, any more than I can talk about what I've already seen.
Posted by svend at June 7, 2005 11:38 AMHey Svend,
Missed you at WARGS last night, will you be joining us next month? If so, we'll be holding it at Playground in town.
Cheers
Grant
I hope to make it to WARGS next week, but I can never tell how long I'll be kept at work. :/
I'll be seeing various WARG-enabled fellows sometime soon, so I'll find out exactly where the Playground is from them. :)
Posted by: Svend at June 9, 2005 10:42 AMWell, next month that is :) it'll be Tuesday the 5th of July if you are interested :)
Playground... well it's right behind the City Council, and straight off Civic square. I'm sure you'll manage :)
Cheers
Grant
Hey Svend,
Just found a place that will sell the complete series of Jeeves and wooster for $165 NZ or about $48 NZ for individual series. You interested?
Anthony.
PS sorry about posting rather than emailing?
Posted by: Ants at June 10, 2005 2:33 PMI'd be interested in finding out, certainly. But I think that there's a complete set being put out this month that may make sense to buy, even though I already have the first one. This post will have my email address - or at least, the one I've given up stopping spammers from using. ;)
Posted by: Svend at June 10, 2005 3:09 PM