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Join the obsidian steam group. SoDOFF.

Hah! Love it! About goddamn time. I'm actually going to mention this to my contract provider and see what they can do for me.

Used a few seconds ago to address formatting shenanigans in Open Office: "What in the name of blue sparking f*** keeps doing that?"

Maybe fleshweld mirrorshades to his head like in Mona Lisa Overdrive?

Finished second play through of Dead Money yesterday. It really is as awesome as I remembered. Big-ish Spoilers:

More likely hype via false shortage as with lots of new release electronic fripperies; SO MUCH DEMAND WE HAVE LITERALLY RUN OUT OF INTERNETS!!!1!!! HOPE YOU AREN'T MISSING OUT!!! BE IN QUICK ETC ETC. The demand would have to be more insane than the love child of Caligula and George III to trouble Google. +1

Not bad, I'm just not in the mood today.

Surely that's like... having sex with Satan then never calling.

Stuck at the work, and felt better for it. Took a break for dinner and some Dead Money. Back to work now.

Feeling really cranky all day. Took time out and played a bit of Dead Money, but that only made me feel more tense. Think may have to knock it on the head and head out to the park, lie in the sun. Already done most everything I had to today.

High as a giant gorilla atop the Empire State. It's just something that has always interested me. A lot of people dislike it because they don't understand it, but then I notice they either had horrible maths teachers or never bothered to even try at it. But hey, what do I know, I only tutored kids in it for 2 years and study it as my second science major. None of which disproves my 'high as an exploded suicide bomber' theory. You have obviously just been high quite a long time.

I'm not mapping my social life. Which now I think about it would be like mapping Tuvalu.

High as a giant gorilla atop the Empire State.

I presume you've seen Leaving Las Vegas?

Ditto here. I think I was playing at too high a level, and was only interested in the NPCs. At low level simply survival exploring is enough of a challenge.

No no.. He's a lawyer.. he should do it via Origami.. I mean, he should have plenty of documents and lawbooks to utilise... Hence the barbecue.

On the surface that's a good counter. However, the central paper he references is pretty weak. Of the other reports he mentions, only the Ernst and Young one looks genuinely compelling, although that's not a link to the actual document. The Lloyds example he cites, for example, is not an internal brief. It's a kind of press release, and written by a chap who has made his writing career on the basis of climate change being dangerous. I have several friends who work in underwriting if there has been any genuine shift in behaviour, although it will have to wait until I next see them.

Funny you say that, I'd be happy to swap. Bloody hate the south of England with a passion. Don't get me wrong. I'd take your patch (Sheffield, I think) any day. Or, frankly anywhere with a bit of character like Harrogate or Durham. His real trouble is that after the Army he expects someone to wheel people in to meet him, and to have a common background to work with. I keep telling him he just needs to get out and meet folks.

Would it be easier to render your professional opinion through the medium of flower arranging? That would at least be novel...

Mate of mine is stuck in a far flung northern city and feeling very homesick. I found a track Shryke recommended and commanded him to dance!* Sure enough the miserable bastard began to get on up and do his thing. *Via chat. Not through some sort of outsize megaphone.

I wanted to run with KILLWOMEN OF THE INTERNUDES, but I can't find anything remotely safe for work/forum guidelines.

Oh, you mean the scientists? No. The doomsayers. Some of whom are scientists. The people who say that we are going to see mass extinctions, and public deaths in the tens of milions.

Aching joints and inexplicable fatigue are a feature of a lot of things. The only one I'm really familiar with is Lyme disease. And with your luck I hate to ask, but maybe you should get checked?

You're missing my point entirely, dear boy. Which means one of us is being a cretin. The key indicator here isn't people building solar. It's industries requiring energy utilising solar. Yet, despite escalating and wildly fluctuating energy prices, none of the most vulnerable industries are switching to renewables. Oil and gas aren't going to get cheaper or more stable so the only reason to keep on suffering is that the figures don't make sense. I'm not some companies are great activist. But one thing they do tend to do well is numbers. Energy, cost of energy, predicted energy use. That's numbers. As to your last point, that's self-defeating. If tooling up for renewables takes five or ten years then according to climate change doomsayers that'll be too late.

Need more exercise, Raitho?