So what's up today?

Not much really, office politics is screwing up one of my brilliant ideas. I'm not going to go too far into it, but here's the skinny in abstract terms: A problem arose, a meeting was called, many lame ideas were bandied about and shot down by nay-sayers, schpat has brilliant idea that solves all problems, idea requires flexibility to the standard run-of-the-mill procedure, stake-holder agree that flexible approach is best and will yield desired result with least effort, schpat is praised, people who are required to be flexible dig in heels, flexible approach is stalled, schpat soothes feelings of people expected to take up others slack, flexible approach is dead in the water, schpat has brilliant idea to save flexible approach but idea requires more flexibility than last just in different areas, schpat realises there will be more resistance and approach will not be ready in time, schpat rants on his blog.

actually I exaggerate, that bit about schpat being praised isn't true.

This is funny:

US shoppers stampede for used laptops

Thousands of shoppers are reported to have stampeded to get their hands on cheap second-hand Apple iBooks at a sale in Richmond, Virginia, yesterday.

Various US media reports said the sale featured four-year-old iBooks priced at $50, instead of the usual $999 to $1 299.

Customers were so desperate to get their hands on the 1 000 laptops on sale that people were thrown to the pavement, one was beaten with a folding chair and one woman wet herself rather than lose her place in the line.

All this for apples?

I've been working on the SchpatDope for friday, it should be out early during the day. Also I'm trying to set up a SchpatDope Mailing List to inform people when a new one is posted. If that isn't successful I'll just continue posting updates on Cthfucia, Nay-sayers be damned.

I'm really looking forward to my tuesday night game starting up again, I've really missed it and I think that Vitoro Castalani is feeling a bit upset about being neglected.

This just in:

An underwear thief in the UK has been banned from an island for seven years. The funny part is how they found out about him. Sex Toys, lol.

This New Zealand woman phoned the emergency ‘111’ service because she spilt oil on her wedding dress just before the wedding was supposed to start.

An Isreali Woman has set herself alight, ala budist monk style, to protest the gaza pull out. I’m also against pulling out, onanism is just plain wrong, the bible says so!

anyway cheers

Damn it all, blogspot is misbehaving so I’ll only post this tomorrow!