Reading: "The Escapement", "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City". Watching. Ha'penny. Web.

without the A? AKA the Notorious Bettie Page.

Plus Ivan's War, Vineland, remorse, pulling the plug and less.

Poll: Best retirement strategy?

The Power and the Money indeed.

Hello again, my imaginary friends. It's been a while since you got a proper diary out of me, and it's been quiet around here, so I am forced, forced I tell you, to write one.

Inside: Oh, I dunno. Operation SYLON, work, home, walking, and ouch, I expect. Also page widening evilness.

And I had a nightmare about Excel and Word, while trapped in a place with no phone line and no internet connection.

The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground.

- Ken Deffeyes

The B.A.D.^TM

Leading the charge since 1972...

And I thought it was inefficient at its investment banking offshoot! Still haven't got access to the shared drives, the latest excuse is that the guy giving me access hasn't got access to that drive yet because he too has just joined. Good job banking isn't in anyway time critical, no sirree....

Poll: prefer to be male or female?  

c.f. tags

Serenity is an overrated pile of reasonably goodness.

You're a traitor, dammit!

Money laundering

Physics, physics physics...