If nothing crops up I'll give you a ring.

[reddragdiva]

• Oh dear, Richard Leiby is kicking the Scientologists again. The CoS spent decades intimidating the press, and the press are still really pissed off. So now it's XENU XENU ALL DAY LONG XENU XENU THE XENU SONG. I'm lovin' it.

• theemptied invents a new perversion. (Not brainsafe.)

I think we started a charity this afternoon. I think my brane survived three hours of corporate law without turning completely to Swiss cheese. I think I also made the mistake of buying one of the rounds of drinks. The Royal Oak is an unbelievably nice pub, with fantastic beer, but curse bars happy to run up a tab on your card!

I am to be the Media Whore and probably one of the directors. We should have the paperwork together in a week or two, then we put it in to the Charities Commissioner and should get deductible status by about April.

I swore I'd never do the nonprofit thing again ...

arkady got about two hundred photos on her 'l33t camera (5 megapixels, £70) which colour-balanced against the fluorescent light fantastically well. If I find one like it with optical zoom I am so in there. We also told the room interesting tales of what happens to trolls who are too stupid to know when to quit.

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

What does happen to trolls who are too stupid to know when to quit, and how do I visit it upon them?

[reddragdiva]

It's a specific case of the law of large numbers: if you make a habit of pissing off strangers, eventually you'll get the Wrong Person to Annoy and your arse will be kicked quite substantially. I can't comment in detail on the present example at this stage (they might get 0.1 of a clue and read this journal), but it should really be quite spectacular. This story was told to a room full of people who were all Wrong People to Annoy, and who now have Views on these particular trolls. Hilarity is sure to ensue.

[reddragdiva]

Is it just me, or does my previous comment read like I'm channelling hairyears? (He was present today, which may be it. He offered to pick up the bar tab and I foolishly said "nah, it'll be right" before I'd seen the number.)

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

Can't they just Google for them like everybody else?

[reddragdiva]

You know, we suggested that ... they're preserved in perpetuity in a vault in a mountainside in Palo Alto, on the Google Groups server.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

The final tally was 170 photos, of which 130 are useable. I've rotated those that needed it, and renamed them, but not resized them yet. About half are maximum resolution, the rest are 640x480 because I was running out of card room.

Definitely taking my tripod with me for such events in future.

[metzkass.livejournal.com]

When things are ok again, I'll volunteer as your Bid Admin Bod. (Sorry, can't sleep, trolling)

Put your tinfoil hat on and take a razor to your lug'oles

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

I am humming tonelessly and beaming rays of Hairyeared Doom from the trading floor.