Absinthe and I will be shacking up at the Imperial Palace come December. Now that school isn’t going to interfere with attending one of these things, I’ll finally be able to put some names to faces. Of course, the irony is that attending school is what allowed me to have enough free time to play poker and blog about it. Designing new features and chasing down bugs for the largest social networking site on the planet doesn’t lend itself to a lot of free time on my end. That, and the fact that I’m a drunken donkey when I finally do log on doesn’t help on the content end.
Anyway, this is what I look like:
See you in December.
The British are odd.
FREE Sit On My Face & Party T-Shirts!
Oh, it is so terrible! The latest shipment of Sit On My Face & Party T-Shirts flew in today from HurdyGurdyland… and all 20,000 are misprinted!!
They are all great enough to wear, for example on a zoo visit, and perfect to use as a cheeky duster, but they don’t have the quality we need to sell them in the shop. Perhaps the t-shirts would score 6/10 in a competition, as opposed to our usual 10/10, but to be honest they are actually completely acceptable – just not good enough for our fruitcake perfectionist boss.
It’d be silly to throw ’em all away, so if anyone wants one – they are free! To get one, just send us a self-addressed A5, or larger, envelope with a minimum of 47p stamp slapped on it, to the address below:
HurdyGurdy T-Shirt Disaster
Faceparty
The Bardfield Centre
Gt Bardfield
Essex
CM7 4SL
OK, we have learnt from experience that some of you (quite a lot of you, in fact) can’t get your head around the concept of a Stamped Addressed Envelope. For those of you who are envelopially challenged, we’ll explain: You need two envelopes – one big envelope and one little envelope. The big envelope must be big enough to fit a t-shirt in it (an A5 envelope or above fits fine, but please don’t send us any more tiny envelopes. If it helps, you could perhaps ask yourself “Will a t-shirt fit in this envelope?” If the answer is “no”, you need to get a different envelope). Write your own address (not ours) on the big envelope, then put a stamp on it to cover the postage back to you (a minimum of 47p is required for standard 2nd class post. If you put any less, or put no stamp on it at all, we will not post it back to you). Fold this envelope up, then put it in the smaller envelope. Write our address (as above) on the second envelope and pop it in the post, with a normal stamp. (Sorry normal people – you just wouldn’t understand!)
But hey, free t-shirt!
“Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job.”
New York Times:
Three Days After Losing Katrina Duties, FEMA Chief Resigns Post
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael D. Brown, resigned today, three days after he was removed from the day-to-day management of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort amid heavy criticism of his performance. The White House quickly announced an interim successor, a FEMA official with decades of experience at the local-government level in emergency work.
Bye, Brownie.
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
Source: OSS.
Posting/archiving this for posterity:
A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Flood waters continue to rise in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage when it made landfall on Monday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans, Louisiana.(AFP/Getty Images/Chris Graythen)
Yahoo! News has a page devoted to this.
"Your opponent cannot fold if you do not bet or raise." –Abdul