asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'bug zapper' on my balcony doesn't bring in 10 bux a day either. only bug parts. and yet i'm happy with it.
asciilifeform: e.g. an 'amd opteron' wouldn't cost any less than what we pay for it here, wherever else on the planet you might go
asciilifeform: in that 'man does not live by bread alone'
asciilifeform: also brings to mind another topic that never quite comes up - that 'cost of living' is not really a complete picture of things
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well now that all depends << chinese peasant could live on 10 usd / d. but does 'van' list any chinese peasants among its ad space providers ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 10 bux a day till the end of the month << wait - that's money?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wait. what kind of ad is this again?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unless i misunderstand - people have to actually click the ads
asciilifeform: so i get a penny now and then, and in exchange... site with ads.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo surprised loper lacks adbox considering it competes with trilema as most read << wait wat. what'd be the point
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's a traditional variant of this where you put on glasses that flip the image, then take them off (after brain adjusts. eventually does)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if i'm not mistaken, psychedelic aficionados in 1960s used them for divination.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: popular in usa, 'nostalgic'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: her stretcher dildo << it's a 'lava lamp' (decorative gizmo, small electric lamp heats a vessel of wax mixed in such a way that colourful shapes float about inside)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: presumably the owner of the machine has better sense than to approach to bird hunt distance
asciilifeform: peterl: i also rent. but not mud shack.
asciilifeform: enlighten me re: 'rent' setup. if i recall, the properties all cost five-figure usd sums... why would anyone rent these ? (that is, who is so poor to rent vs. buy a mud shack like this, but could still make timely rent?)
asciilifeform: my brain popped, only fair that other folks' should also.
asciilifeform: recall how mircea_popescu once posted some examples of spam where the spam-meister forgot to actually fill in the spam-generator 'mad libs' and posted raw form ?
asciilifeform: but that was thrown in there for the same reason as kardashian. almost like he's got a checklist of traditional american cultural markers.
asciilifeform: 'William Gibson future where you can live like a stainless steel rat...' << this fellow ever read books ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: re: 'broken hearted' article: what a psychiatric marvel. note where he bashes his gov. for not confiscating privately owned small arms quickly enough for his liking - and then goes on with some crap about 'rage is necessary component... stop being well-behaved'
asciilifeform: possibly refund one day, if paypal feels like it
asciilifeform buys a nice little cnc vertical milling machine - next day, ebay account of vendor (in as far as can be told, reputable, old;) is cancelled. no recourse.
asciilifeform: so there we sat, contemplating how, generally, the bigger calibre of cannon, the louder the report. and mircea_popescu woke up, reminded us how he vapourized enemies with old trusted Nd:Yag laser.
asciilifeform: not so simple re: 'wtf should poor wretch do'
asciilifeform: simple in that it succeeds in 'stretching the owl over the globe' and fitting observables to hypothesis
asciilifeform: cazalla: at that same age i tried mightily to find an engineering application of it
asciilifeform: not unlike 'practicing' heat death of the universe
asciilifeform: pray tell how does one 'practice' ladder theory.
asciilifeform did once partake of the crud in great quantities, to no useful end
