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Yeah? Well.. I'm going to spend Xmas with my husband and some cats, so... so there.

It's sad when things you work on turn out not as good as they should be, because of other people involved. (THAT'S WHY I DO EVERYTHING ON MY OWN AND ALSO NEVER MANAGE TO FINISH ANYTHING.)

Here's one from a seller (this $35 60-year-old pen is still stuck in the mail). I shall post a complete picture of my collection next week (they're scattered between work and home). Montblancs are for business guys who want something "executive" and know nothing about real quality; their pens are overpriced IMO. (Actual MB collectors may disagree. MB do make good ink.) The fountain pen world does have its interesting little personalities, and there are definite rivalries. For example: Nathan Tardiff of Noodler's, the one-man-ink company with the largest selection of colours, is disturbingly strong about his Tea Party support and has released some inks related to that - #41 Brown, about Sen. Brown of Mass; Bernanke quick-drying ink "the ink Ben Bernanke needs to sign all the new money he's printing;" also once sent a fountain pen and bottle of ink only visible under UV light to the Chinese with a note that they should use it to write critical comments in the margins of the original Little Red Book. But daaaaaaaaaaamn he makes good ink.

Fountain pens. Gorgeous antique fountain pens. (NO, NOT MONT BLANC. EURGH.)

AF has a Premium Economy offering that's better than the E+/PE offering on the US carriers. My rec is to check SeatGuru and pay attention to the seat pitch numbers. I have spent $120 on pens in the past few days. I am a terrible human being.

Your flexible friend who's fun to be with!

NO MAN YOU'RE THINKING OF PUTTING SHOES ON THE TABLE

again i say -- what santa hats?

I want to go to wizard camp.

I don't see any Santa hats. I think you're imagining things.

Obvious answer - there's no money in it. All you need to do to become a "game journalism blog" is sign up for a bunch of press release lists and blindly repost their text; your advertisers are more than likely going to be the very companies whose games you are writing about, so there's no impetus to be brutally honest. Everyone has moved on to other things - not necessarily better, but different - and you're assuming everyone still talks and haven't, for example, sworn bloody vengeance while sharpening the neck of a broken beer bottle on their sharp white teeth. I'm sorry, TP - you can't go home again, you can't resurrect AP, and you can't make a perfect omelet when someone's watching over your shoulder. At least, I can't do any of those things (despite trying to do least 2/3 of them). (Interesting confluence, I was actually talking about this last night in the context of why AP2 is sometimes so depressing to read - the posthumous scribblings of a giant long dead, etc.)

You know the answer to this one already: reviewing iThing games (Stu), making comics (C-Monster), training for a marathon (Reader Mil) and tapping out Perl while blind on bathtub gin (J Nash). The others are probably also doing something.

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3.2 jiggahertz?

Screw it, just get a speccy.

Oh, right, I forgot just how giant this game is. Derp.

I think since Skyrim is a 32-bit app, you should get 32G of RAM so you have one G for every bit. that's how it works, right

Hey elmuerte, I think you either found .

My computer at work has 2GB, and it's better than 65% of the machines we have. (I guess they don't want me playing Skyrim at work.)

Well, elmuerte, perhaps once this is over you can submit it to the Daily WTF.

Mee too, very much so! I want to know whether the end result is murder, riot, or just some annoyed looks over bad coffee.

Aw. Your dragon is differently-abled.