Well, our damn ISP is trying to blame us — they're claiming that we are currently consuming over 100 megabits per second and grinding their network to a halt, whereas our stats are showing that our bandwidth is a third of normal, and the servers aren't under any load.
So… I have an update all ready to go, but until that problem is solved there's no way for me to upload it. Sorry… My partners are there in person now yelling at them.
Anyway, even though it's been 75-80 degrees here for the last week, it snowed this morning.
This morning I read the following passage, and thought that even though it was written about forty years ago, it's especially relevant today. When Nearing wrote it, it was a prediction, but now, we are living in permanent war, and the largest civil government (the US government) has been almost entirely replaced with a military state.
"Western civilization today is directed by a community of warfare states in which civil government is subordinate to military authority. The current arms race between the chief powers is one phase of the preparation for total, permanent war."
Well… Let's see what I have to do today…
I need to add a pile of images to the queue for upload tomorrow. I need to set something up to restore addresses for experience shirts. I should start working on a design for the May 20th BBQ shirt. I need to grab some groceries. … And I want to go get a tea pot (and that's not a euphemism; I've been drinking a lot of tea, and I'm sick of making it mug by mug).
eBay is flooded with dunebuggies right now… Usually it's just various Manx knockoffs and cruddy looking T-bugs, but right now there's an incredibly rare Deserter GS dunebuggy. If I was in the states, I'd definitely bid on this one:
If you like the looks of that, the first link (above) is to the auction… Here's an old brochure…
I don't care that the interior is in tatters.
I don't care that there are some trim pieces missing.
I don't care that the wipers and heaters are broken.
I don't care that it makes me smell like gas.
I don't care that it gets 4 mpg.
I don't care that it lifts off the road at 90 mph.
I don't care that the stereo sucks.
I don't care that one mirror is broken.
I don't care that its brakes and steering suck.
I don't care that it has a white trash stigma.
I don't care that it only cost $2000.
It's got sidepipes.
It's got 500 HP.
It's got a long curvy hood.
It's got a pearl paint job.
It's got license plates that say L33T.
It's got t-tops.
This isn't a sports car.
This is fucking translated into automotive technology.
