Cayorl


Nice hike this past week. I am home, and now I can devote more time to such activities as:

- Chiptones.

- Cube gleaming.

- Plutocracy.

- Nostriltech.

- Gluing model rocket engines to things.

- Changing my middle name back to Oslo.

Tawglerfrot

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This is the island of my people. Viewed from the Transmonkplein Muleway.

Huwei North Star unveils Pink Nostril, the ruthenium car.

Huwei North Star has been a leading light in the labor camp construction industry for decades, but โ€” aside from a brief and ill-considered foray into three-wheeled scooters โ€” they have not made a car. That changed today, as company chairman Bob "Mad Dog" Zhong introduced the Pink Nostril, the company's first four-wheeler, and the first car made out of holmium, part of the lanthanide series.

Zhong claims that the Pink Nostril will offer the pan-Kyrgyz motorist new advances in comfort, reliability, and toxicity. "Everyone knows that you can't put a ceramic toilet inside of a car, because the passenger will break it and use the bits to assault the driver," Zhong said. "However, we solved this by putting a stainless steel toilet in the car. There is also razor wire so that occupants are not allowed to be ejected through the windshield in case of collision."

The holmium chassis, body, and headlamps raised some questions, however, particularly from rivals at pan-dimensional conglomerate Voss Nose, who currently manufacture cars out of transition metals vanadium, rhodium, and noble gas xenon. "Everyone knows vanadium makes a great suspension, tire, and steering tiller," said Voss Nose chairman and Former Japanese Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata," but a lanthanide? Disgusting! Immoral!"

Analysts, too, were dubious. "I wouldn't say that the bulk of the US and European markets hate whatever nationality Huwei North Star is," said a thinly-disguised Ralph Gilles, "but I think we can all agree that we're viciously racist towards lanthanides." The car has been for sale in key Bangladeshi and Congolese markets since 1997, and is expected to become available in the EU within six months.

Ralidox

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Pauvre Ramirez has bought the farm due to defective scrollwheelery. Now there is a new Ramirez with even more buttons. Long live Ramirez.

 

Update: Ramirez has been dismissed. Old Ramirez has returned, triumphantly. Long live the MX Revo.

Elmitroid

I got a Fuji, and a really top-shelf flash for it. I hear this Honeywell is the bee's knees.

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The old camera is a little more pocketable...

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...although the Fuji's screen is bigger...

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...and its exposure controls are a little more sensibly laid-out.

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Overall, the Fuji is just as good as the Fuji I had before, and I think that Japan place is really going somewhere.