We know.........

Well it’s a interesting time at work at the moment. Our departments restructuring is soon to be followed by some building restructuring because as another department will be moving into our area of the building and another one will be moving out, with this new department arriving they are having to build a wall. Right across the centre of the space we currently occupy, Don’t ask me why I’m sure it makes sense to someone somewhere, which is likely to result is us having to play musical desks yet again.

However news of our department restructuring including names of anyone who might or might now be leaving the department is still ‘secret’ until the end of March. Despite this one of our authors let slip on his blog some of this news, so now people know one of the most important effects on our department as a whole. And we know that they know. But despite us knowing that they know we can’t admit to what they know even though we know that they know. And they probably know that we know that they know. Some of them even know that we know that they know and even though we know what they know is what we know they know we can’t admit that they know that we know that what they know is true. So at the end of the day we know that they know. They know that we know that they know. But we can make any comments on that we know that what they know is what we know that they shouldn’t know until the end of March.

Clear?

No not to me either, but someone waayyyyy about my paygrade decides these things. I’m just the muggins who has to deal with it.

We found a great funny review for one of our books on the internet this week. Well funny in the sense that it was from brazil and so wasn’t in English. One of the editors decided to run it through google translate and the end result was…. Interesting. He’s a brief example of part of the translated review.

“A publisher small but pujante, which has already begun in the best style kung-fu-shaw-brothers-tarantino: Walking in the door and attitude, will face?”

Well it makes more sense then some of the posts on that LDS message board that I’ve commented about previously.

There was a interesting article in the news yesterday, a gambling addict is sueing a bookmakers for more then £2 million, money he lost gambling after asking the bookmaker not to let him bet again. At what point does an addict stop becoming culpable for his actions? From what I understand in the news story he requested that they close his account and prevent him from using it. He then went and opened a new account and used that one instead. So the bookmaker had done what he requested initially. It will be interesting to see if this is successful. Could it prompt other addicts to try similar things? An Alcoholic suing an off license for selling him beer? A smoker suing a supermarket for letting him buy cigarettes? Where would it end?

The new European space lab has been installed on the Space station. Now some people wonder why interest in science is dying out. But considering this story about Humans in space constructing the largest space station ever and installing this new state of the art lab module which could let to breakthroughs impossible on the ground, is being reported by some news organisations with the same enthusiasm they would give to paying bills you can see why the wonder and excitement of space and science is rapidly disappearing. I mean the best the BBC website could do was a two paragraph report from a reporter standing in the mock up at ESA HQ in Germany! Hardly riveting stuff even for a geek like me.

Engineseer has believe it or not actually started updating his blog again. So use the link on the list of blogs I read to go and visit his blog and leave comments. Hopefully if he gets enough it might encourage him to keep going, that or to improve the times between posts to days rather then months : - )

Well as has been the norm for Friday nights so far this year it looks like another night in for yours truly. Nothing going on YSA wise at all. Or rather nothing going on YSA wise that anybody has told me about. Either option as likely as the other with the way communication is at the moment. Well I’ve got another manuscript to read for work, a great big HA! Directed to all the people who said that I wasted my time learning all the background for our games. It’s proven to be more profitable then all those stupid plays we had to study for English. But the least said about my English GCSE class the better. Especially the teacher who asked me to give a talk about the church in front of the whole class!

Anyway,

Later!