Not that there's much to mention now, either.
There are a few potential site updates. Or something like that. Hunter's subsites over at EvilCoffeeChick.com are moving along. Not that I know much about that. She just keeps asking whether I'm able to do things like CG a cigarette.
Which, of course, I can. Although I'm not sure why I couldn't just use a real one.
Beyond that, she's setting up The Lab quite a bit. Although I'm not sure when that's going to be ready to go live.
In a related story, there's not a lot of news on Hunter's money yet.
For those just tuning in, the Dumerican Governmendicants [whose treasury cheques are reportedly an NSF risk once they reach a hundred bucks or so] are supposed to be paying Hunter about three thousand bucks a month, but aren't. While everyone we've talked to agrees that they should be paying her three thousand a month, no one we've talked to is in the position of authority to actually get it to her.
As of tomorrow, they owe her $87,000 in backpay.
Stay tuned for more on this developing bullshit.
Loosely related to that, the TrEx Project has managed to completely remove the damned freeway now. I had to drive halfway across town on regular roads before I could find an entrance ramp which wasn't closed down.
Not that I mind the regular roads, exactly; I just don't like the rules associated with them. Like speed limits and traffic signals.
I have a proposal here: if you shut down the damned freeway and force us to use regular roads, we should still be able to move along at fifty-five and ignore red lights. That seems fair to me.
Not that it's going to happen. There are too many retards out there to allow for it.
Laws, for those who haven't figured it out yet, are in place for no other reason than to keep idiots alive. Name a law; its primary purpose for existing is to prevent the death of imbeciles.
Speed limits. Morons can't handle speed. They haven't got the reaction time to avoid death at speeds above seventy-five.
Fraud. Laws against fraud prevent these twits from investing all their money into something and starving to death.
Murder. You can probably figure out how the law against murder keeps idiots alive.
I've been thinking about this sort of thing lately. Not just killing dumb people, but laws in general. Since I scrapped the initial version of Duhmerica, I still need to write the book. And I'm just about ready to.
For those of you who have read News of the Stoopid [NotS], and for the few people who have seen Damnitology, you can imagine what NS3 is going to look like. Maybe. If not, you'll have to read it once it's been released, I guess.
Of course, there's going to be a bit of a trick with NS3. NotS was easy: I basically just developed a NewsSite, of sorts, with NewsoftheStoopid.com; for NS2, I founded Damnitology. Logically, in writing NS3, I should really start up the country of Duhmerica.
That might take a bit of outside funding....
I've considered it, of course. I can buy an island in the South Pacific for about $25million. And, once I own the thing--presuming it's outside anyone else's twelve-mile-limit--I can declare it a sovereign state.
I could technically do that with anything solidly positioned in international waters; offshore banks do it all the time. But there's a certain appeal in having a country large enough to drive a car on.
Something to look into sometime.
Thinking about it, churches in Duhmerica should really be considered sovereign states. I'm pretty sure they're not, but they should be.
Personally, I'm still trying to figure out why, when a church starts to burn down, the Fire Department rush out to save it. If the church isn't paying taxes, which fund the Fire Department, then something's very wrong there.
Maybe churches are considered sovereign states after all, and the Fire Department are just issued as international relations.
That, or the Duhmerican government are corrupt, or something. Hard to say.
Ugh. The new issue of the National Prevaricator is supposed to come out tomorrow. Not that it's done yet. Or, really, started.
Things have been kinda busy lately.
That's partly my fault. I've been writing sites for other people again. Not CEI--people with actual income, who can pay me. That's a neat idea, I think: actually getting paid to do something, instead of listening to a bunch of idiots who don't know the first thing about the 'net demanding various things in a website.
You know: little things. Like fullmotion video at broadcast quality which loads in under five seconds on a 14.4. That sort of thing.
I really like it when these sophists tell me that they know it can be done, because they saw it in a film once....
Oh yeah: the chatroom.
Not that I'm quite ready to tell anyone where it is. But we're almost done with this thing. I think. Greenback is doing a lot of it, and I'm not sure where he is on it. Last I heard, he had it working in Python, and was going to convert it over to an .exe so it would be faster. That was a couple of days ago.
Hopefully we can have it ready to use within a couple of days. Since chat.yahoo.com is a mess.
I should probably work out the interface for that, just in case it's ready otherwise.
More later....
--Gremlin