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[therealpm]

Progress on The Machine: Lattice tower now installed and fully rigged, with only minor injuries to engineering crew. This should enable 'remote access' over much larger distances. Unfortunately, haven't found a way around the Heisenberg uncertainty principle yet; the clarity of the message conveyed is inversely proportional to the distance from the tower.

Preliminary tests expected this afternoon.


The tower (left) and control rigging (right).  Once connected to the Omni-view it will allow direct insertion of information into the subject's thought-stream.  May not work on BNP and UKIP supporters, for obvious reasons.

Update: Success!  Time for a nap, I think.

Comments

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

No? You're just bothering yourself with something then.

By all means. *pours*

Good to see that Laws and Lundie are sufficiently reunited to start bickering again, isn't it?

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

I am not bothering myself with anything either, thank you.

Thank you *drinks*

Yes... yes it is. They really are... yes. It's good to see them happy together. *drinks*

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

I always think that relationships are strongest when both parties are able to argue with each other, don't you? Shows a certain confidence that argument isn't going to break anything.

Mmph- the News is on.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, arguing is an important part of any relationship, so on and so forth. When a couple does argue, don't you agree, it is sometimes advisable for both parties to go out and diffuse the anger separately so that they can then have a reasoned discussion after about the real reasons for the disagreement without overemotional complications?

Yes. The News. Very imprtant.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Oh absolutely. If only Tony and Gordon had done that, we might have won a fourth term. So, do you want the sofa bed tonight or will you be taking a taxi back at some point? Teleporting after most of a bottle is perhaps less than advisable.

Indeed, those riots in Tunisia, simply awful.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

Given the feeling my wife is currently broadcasting to the world, I'll take the sofa bed, if you would be so kind.

Yes, horrific, even. Utterly terrible.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

In that case, I have no compunction against opening another bottle.

*pours*

There has to be something on which isn't thoroughly depressing or sports-related.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Peter. I hope you realise, should such an occasion ever arise, that I would do the same for you.

Hopefully, although I still don't fully understand your prejudice against sport.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

John, you've been remarkably generous with regard to opening bottles of late. Think nothing of it.

Compared to politics sport, or at least watching sport, simply seems pointless. In what way does winning or losing a game change the world? Whom does televised sport benefit, except the vastly overpaid knuckle-draggers on the screen? Why should anyone care about the outcome of any particular match?

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, it's always good manners to make sure.

That's the point Peter; it's escapism. These people are hardly, if at all, affected by what we as politicians do; you don't look at them and think "Oh, well, I've accidentally ended up stealing money from them, even if I didn't mean to, and even if I did reform tax credits, knowing how the world works it would take too long for them to actually get them and for it to make any damn difference anyway". In sport you can just get lost in the pointlessness of it all.

I'm going to need another drink soon, just to warn you.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Life is too short to be pointless. I wouldn't say that people were unaffected by our government's policies. We introduced the minimum wage, for a start.

You are looking rather low, in more senses than one.

*Tops up glass*

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

I wasn't referring to your government's policies in particular; sport has been going on far longer than New Labour, as I'm sure you're aware (and sport stars are obviously direct beneficiaries of the minimum wage...).

I'm not low, simply... pensive. And short, of course.

Thank you all the same, though.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

There was a time before New Labour? Heaven forfend, that people should have lived in such dark days!

If you're that short, I may forgo the effort of pulling out the sofabed and simply push two armchairs together.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

You know there was; you had to create New Labour, after all, or would you prefer the public to forget how you revolutionised your party for the 'good of the country', hmmm?

A sofabed will be fine, thank you.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Oh we shadowy figures of parliament are used to having our due credit given to someone else.

Well get up, if you can do so without toppling over again and help me remove the sofa cushions. There's bedding in the bottom of the cabinet, over there.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

If you insist.

I am more than capable of getting up without toppling over... and here's the bedding.

*Cough* I suppose I should... should thank you. Admittedly, I have done numerous times throughout tonight, but... well... just... just thank you. And, of course, sorry for interrupting your nap however many hours ago it was.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Well done.

*Unfolds sofa bed and starts to do the sheets*

I'd make you make the bed yourself, but I suspect you arms aren't long enough to unfold the sheets. You do the pillows instead.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

I know I should be offended by that statement, but you making the sheets up does mean less effort on my part...

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

*glare*

I'm sure your arms won't be too short to reach the kettle and a packet of tea tomorrow morning.

Good night.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they aren't.

Goodnight, Peter.