i like where this is going.

[Nikolai Kingsley]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Thel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapsid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haustoria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appressoria

"Turgor pressure increases inside the appressorium and a penetration
hyphae emerges at the pore, which is driven through the plant cuticle
into the underlying epidermal cells"

that's the most erotic thing i've read in a long time.

[Ken Johnson]

On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 12:33:58 UTC+1, Nikolai Kingsley wrote:

> "Turgor pressure increases inside the appressorium and a penetration
> hyphae emerges at the pore, which is driven through the plant cuticle
> into the underlying epidermal cells"

I can't think why you read that sort of thing.

Ken Johnson

[Nikolai Kingsley]

>> "Turgor pressure increases inside the appressorium and a penetration
>> hyphae emerges at the pore, which is driven through the plant cuticle
>> into the underlying epidermal cells"
>
> I can't think why you read that sort of thing.

engineering porn.

[Ken Johnson]

On Thursday, 10 January 2013 01:12:56 UTC+1, Nikolai Kingsley wrote:

> engineering porn.

I'm in Germany this week. Munich, where the Weissbier, duck, dumpling and red cabbage come from.

Since the bastards tried to make me redundant from my job two years ago, I have been unable to sleep at night, so at 3 am this morning I sitting up in bed watching German Channel 1. The channel showed an engine driver driving an express passenger train across Norway. It was simple film shot straight ahead from the cab so that, watching it, you could pretend to be the engine driver. Not much of a programme, you may think, especially in the ten kilometre long tunnels, but it was better than lying awake in the dark, being harangued by monsters.

So, yesterday was the engine driver's turn. Tomorrow maybe Channel One will show what a policeman sees during a working day, or a postman, or a teacher, or a bottle washer, or a shorthand typist.

It's unemployment porn.

Ken Johnson
...I tried to conjure imaginary girlfriends, but they didn't answer the summons.

[Nikolai Kingsley]

> Not much of a programme, you may think, especially in the
> ten kilometre long tunnels,

it's a masterpiece of character development, compared to some of the
sputum that gets televised.

> So, yesterday was the engine driver's turn. Tomorrow maybe Channel
> One will show what a policeman sees during a working day,
> or a postman, or a teacher, or a bottle washer, or a shorthand typist.

perhaps it'll show the policeman demonstrating the utility of profiling,
with the business end of his truncheon. or a politician taking bribes.
or a manager throwing darts at a dart-board in order to select the next
round of redundancies.

"Well, the courts may not work any more, but as long as everyone's
recording everyone else, justice will be served." - Marge Simpson

--
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Nu-m�, nu-m� iei, nu-m�, nu-m�, nu-m� iei
Chipul t�u si dragostea din tei
Mi-amintesc de ochii t�i

[euclid]

On Jan 14, 2:21 pm, Nikolai Kingsley <shera...@netspace.net.au> wrote:

> "Well, the courts may not work any more, but as long as everyone's
> recording everyone else, justice will be served." - Marge Simpson

Heh.

If only you knew. Oh, wait...you *do* know.

euclid
Oh, the tales I could tell...

[nikolai kingsley]

> If only you knew. Oh, wait...you *do* know.
>

> Oh, the tales I could tell...

how are things with the Unrestrained Dog Shit lady?

[euclid]

Which one?

[Nikolai Kingsley]

>>> If only you knew. Oh, wait...you *do* know.
>>> Oh, the tales I could tell...
>> how are things with the Unrestrained Dog Shit lady?
>
> Which one?

there's MORE THAN ONE? you don't need webcams, you need those automated
sentry guns from "Aliens".

[euclid]

Tell me about it. At least the one that was being really creepy about
it hasn't been staring into my unit lately.

euclid
*sigh*

[Nikolai Kingsley]

>>>> how are things with the Unrestrained Dog Shit lady?
>>> Which one?
>> there's MORE THAN ONE? you don't need webcams, you need those automated
>> sentry guns from "Aliens".
>
> Tell me about it. At least the one that was being really creepy about
> it hasn't been staring into my unit lately.

i've often thought that if a scientologist tried that staring thing with
me, i could easily out-stare them, but who wants to spend half an hour
staring at a scientologist? perhaps if they spent less time practicing
their menacing stares, and more time coming up with a better bad guy
than Xenu Etrawl, they'd be bigger than the Taoists.

--
"Once I saved a man's life. I could have pushed him under a streetcar
but I didn't."
- Lafayette Ron Hubbard, from his journal