December 03, 2003
Suddenly, Suddenly Busyentry,
Well I cranked the buffer clear up to 26 (kept it there for a couple of days, too) and I guess it's a good thing I did. I found out Tuesday that I'm needed in Germany next week.
You know, there's such a thing as being too good at what you do, and I've reached that point. I'm obviously too good at convincing my employer that I know what I'm talking about, because now they're paying an unholy sum to fly me to someplace called "Nuremberg" to talk about it. I'll be talking about it with some folks who may choose to righteously scowl at me for only being able to talk about it in English (the language of the American Imperialist Pigs), but hopefully I'll be able to convince them that the "it" about which I'm talking is an "it" about which I know what about.
If that phrase translates accurately into German I'll eat my absperrbares Kopfstückrückschlagventil.
In the spirit of fooling some of the people all of the time, some of the people apparently include members of the web-cartoonist community. This survey is one of those gag "you might be an <insert slur here>" lists, purportedly to determine whether or not you're a web-cartoonist. The 19th item on the list reads (in context) "You might be a webcartoonist if your name is Howard Tayler."
As the only webcartoonist called out by name I'm not sure whether to be honored or offended.
The funny thing is that I took the survey, answered honestly, and only came out with a 45% likelihood of being a webcartoonist. The suspense is killing me. I need a more definite answer than that. Something, you know... beweiskräftig, or maybe schlüssig.