\nI’m fighting off a cold. It’s not helping that I have to be at work at the crack
\nof dawn to train my European colleagues on the software we’re releasing next week.\n<\/p>\n
\nNot that I don’t appreciate German humor or anything. For example, I was explaining \nEven the French were better-behaved.\n<\/p>\n \nSince I don’t have cable TV, I’ve had to amuse myself in other ways. Recently \nQ: But I can at least put myself into the shoes of an adventurer, righting wrongs and \nA: Sort of. The evil in question reappears in the world after you vanquish it, often
\na new module our software has, one which lets you create new benchmark centers
\ncost centers, and organizations. The German manager was duly impressed.
\n“So Evan! Ven I klick on ze button, do I alzo aquire ze budget<\/em>
\nfor ze new center? Ho ho ho!” The best I could manage at 7am was a feeble,
\n“Sure Ruediger, that’ll be in the next release, I promise.”\n<\/p>\n
\nI’ve been plowing through the archives of
\nThe Brunching Shuttlecocks<\/a>. I swear, their
\nstuff is as good or better than The Onion<\/a>. Take, for
\nexample, the Everquest FAQK<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n\n
\nfighting evil?\n<\/p>\n
\nwithin mere minutes. and the world as a whole never changes because of anything you do.
\nSo in that way it’s less like being a fantasy adventurer and more like being a social worker.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n