Jim says:

I guess the United States has been reprogrammed or something. Software is a blessing and a curse. It seems to work like censorship. You have people that want their idea to be the standard and it turns out that the whole thing was one big fraud leading to more fraud. Maybe when the programmers all get done programming the country into software hell, they can reprogram one another. What we have is one big smouldering heap of censored code and crack pot security that makes everything less secure. Microsoft plays this tired tune about innovation, the press asks all the wrong questions and the government investigates. It’s like watching the detectives.

On top of all of this, you have your various nitwits and web master database types all preaching a doomsday sermon about how screwed we are and how evil God is, while they are spitting out propaganda like they know something from next week or next month. Everybody is now waiting to see what Bill Gates will say next, like it matters, while Alan Greenspan crows about deficits in Washington. Some other group of morons is working on Social Security reinvention, while some group of programmers are trying to reprogram the FBI computers and it isn’t working. Welcome to the PC industry led by Microsoft and the paperless godless office of the future from hell. Here we are where your dollars have been converted into some new form of corporate undercurrency that is about to crash in 15 minutes of pop culture fame, while Bill Gates gives an I told you so speech from hell or the new capitol of Digital Unamerica, where your dollar doesn’t add up to a pile of beans.

You have to wonder what the interlude is here, since there seems to be no resolution, only falling action and consequence. Perhaps Bill will order Pluck to remove the ass’s head from Bottom, who awaking from what he calls a “most rare vision” utters the significant words, “man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.

You’re not as young as you had been, but you are not as old as you will be so watch it. I guess Microsoft packaged and sold the American Dream wholesale and retail like a dirty movie, while some other programmers told the government some fairy tale about security, the digital lifestyle and Bottom and the crew of patches. There are reports of zombies in the Redmond, Washington area muttering verses of some sonnet from hell and speaking in code known only to the dead and the machines. The code is all cracking apart and my PC is speaking to the dead in some new digital language only known to but a special few. I am still trying to use English effectively, but we have this jungle in the rumble and there appears to be a ghost in the machine. It seem like a good time to eat, I hope the food is still real.

Alan says:

What happened to the photo of the handsome gents?