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2008-04-25

I spent five minutes trying to rub the dust off my screen before I realised that Michałki is supposed to look like that :(

2008-04-25

If anyone's curious about what the "Avalanche of Pancakes" clipping reads, here it is, after ~20 minutes of squinting at the photo.

It's a clipping from my university's student newspaper, and it was a little filler for the extra space at the end of the classifieds, so it's normally really random and contains inside jokes about the editors, but this one was lengthier and interesting. From the hole in the top of the clipping you may guess that I've had it tacked up behind my desk for a little while before I mailed it in.

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The pint glass struck the table with a crack, in the process, dragging the recruit's attention from his introspective musings back to the man sitting across the table from him. This was stuff of the legends. One of the select few that had seen action, and had returned with the proof of the horrors he had seen.

"What's it like?" asked the first man, his eyes widening as they focused on the grizzled visage of the vet.

"It's four years of hell, young blood. Classes. Exams. The grueling depression that comes from knowing that the best years of your youth will be spent in a molded plastic seat while staring at the dull matte of lined notepaper," growled the veteran, his voice changed by years of coffee abuse. "Do you think you're ready for that, newbie?"

The recruit aimed to still his shaking hands by wrapping them around his unfinished libation. The glass was warm to the touch, but did nothing to calm his nerves. "It can't be that bad, right? It's just school."

The rookie's words were cut short when the vet took a firm hold of his collar. The old man's voice was low, but his eyes pierced the boy with a wild, crazed glare. "The human body can go eleven days without sleep, boy. But it does things to you. It changes you. A man sees things that shouldn't be. Are you willing to let go of your sanity for a term paper, young blood? Are you ready for that?"

"I've always done well in high scho-"

The vet's grip tightened. "I know a man who thought he could do it. The best grades. The best training. This was a man who ate up commies and sh*t out freedom. He lasted a week."

"What happened to him?"

"You're looking at him, billy boy. You're looking at him."

2008-04-28

vP:
So, who is that dude with funky hairdo and beanie hat in the 10 zloty bill anyway? And what did he achieve in order to get printed on money?

It's first ruler of poland - duke Mieszko I of Poland. more about it at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieszko_I_of_Poland

2008-04-30

If the Queen of New Zealand is anything like the Queen of Canada (I have noticed a certain resemblance), she is the personal manifestation of the sovereign nation. Legally, she is New Zealand.

However, if she is anything like the Queen of Canada, she spends 99% of the time not existing. She is off embodying other things. There are lots of things in need of bodies that don't have their own, it seems. As a result, should she suddenly start existing again, it is absolutely essential that we have her likeness readily available for verification.

The Queen of Canada can be identified in the field by folding her face along a certain line. If the Queen's face becomes the Queen's bum, it's the genuine article. I am sure they have a similar method in NZ.

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