Welcome to Dullsville
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izmeinaIzzie is becoming increasingly desperate for a fix of wifi for the Preciousss. Once a week at the Angel's Cafe is simply not enough - especially as we managed to use a week's worth of Tight Ass Tuesday hours for the local netcafe (five minutes walk from the Izzie Lair) in only two days.
So so much juicy tasty gossip and morsels in Izzieland that it is painful to be deprived of them all. At this stage - the Izzie has snatched the nastiest and sneaksiest provisions of the Rodent's Abolition of Liberty Bill and is still waiting for an opportunity to write and post her rant.
The bastard must have Dolores drafting his most devious legislation for him. Makes her Educational Decrees look like a civil rights love fest.
So, on hearing that our favorite supplier of serpent munchies (The ABC) has moved to a new address with a big fat coffee shop - what better possibility is there of finding a wifi friendly zone since all the busy broadcasters will want to be typing away with seditious intent over a cafe latte.
But first things first, will catch up on the local paper before taking the Preciousss out for a test run.
Oh, we had giggling fits of glee to read about a new play appearing soon about Izzie's adopted city.
This little snippet was part of the article - yesss -Izzie is dead serious
"The 'D' word is something we don't like to talk about. Kind of like "He Who Shall Not Be Named" in the Harry Potter books
Some people are very sensitive about the term but we more than anyone are qualified to criticise our own town"
Frankly, Izzie thinks that Dursleyville is an infinitely more accurate description than Dullsville but it's all pretty much the same thing.
But - after having to resort to going outside of the ABC building because we could not get our fix of Radio National inside and then discovering that there is a local wireless network but it is not available for the likes of Izzie - got to thinking that "The Dead Zone" might be a more appropriate moniker for the place.
(Late edition update) One peeved python after finally squiggling her Enron - the Movie review, slinks into the newest netcafe on the block to do a quick cut and paste. This mob are Korean. While they have the crappy old system of stupid tickets with numbers and pay after rather than the infinitely more preferable pay up front with user code and password print out - they do have the distinction of being laptop friendly and charging the same price for laptops as normal nasty PCs. Well. The map is not the territory. Izzie assumed that it was wifi friendly. But no. Dead as a doornail. Some stupid cable job and farting around with DNS codes, Internet Protocol Properties and what have you. The girl behind the counter was nice but not exactly nerdish. Oh and of course - confusion and puzzlement as the Izzie internet network and other control panels bear no resemblence at all to those of the Microsith Monolith. The poor thing looked totally bewildered as if our Preciousss had come from Mars. Did finally find the right screen and tossed in all the proper numbers but it just would not deliver the goodies. So back to the drawing board again. Those folks in Angel's Waffle Cafe are sure going to get a very nice Christmas card and bottle of plonk from one eternally grateful serpent. Would be so so lost without them. All you do there is lift the lid and you are up and running and it costs nothing but a coffee and waffle (or two) Yesss. Welcome to the Dead Zone of Dursleyville.
Will have to lurk there more often anyway in spite of this major minus point. Was sipping our latte (was too early to be swilling the chardonnay) when some reporter guy comes over to ask the Izzie what the big news story of the week was for us. Without hesitation we replied "The introduction of the Abolition of Liberty bill next week. When asked why we consider this important - said that it was like going back to the dark ages. Shoot to kill and torture and detention without trial have been regarded as barbaric for so long and now this government wants to make such things respectable and acceptable. This is the sort of things we used to complain about the Russians doing and now we are going along and copying them.
He asked what the Izzie thought we could do about it. No idea says the Izzie except to remember all this stuff at the next election if there is a next election.
Yesss. What can we do? That is the question. Ranting and squiggling on LJ is a great way of letting off steam but it won't change anything. Maybe will have to look to Fred and George for some inspiration.
Izzie's local member of parliament is one of those spineless jellyfish from the Labour party so not sure if it is any use at all writing to the bugger.
Most folks at work don't give a damn about such things. At least the public speaking group is different. It's the only opportunity outside of Cyberia that Izzie has to associate with anarchistic cynical eccentrics such as herself. Really must get back later to mention our impromptu speech this morning (three minutes only preparation time) on the topic of "All that glitters is not gold" Did have two to choose from - the other being "All good things must come to an end" Both were very easily twisted to Izzie's obsession with a certain energy company whose motto should have been "There is no good and evil. There is only power and those too weak to sell it"
The chairman challenged the Izzie to give a speech without mentioning Adolf Hitler, Hogwarts, Harry Potter or Dearest Dolores. We obliged and gossiped about goblins instead.
What was so funny - it is the usual practice that you leave the room after you have picked your slip of pink paper from the hat so that you have time to prepare a speech without distractions. Izzie declined the opportunity saying that we would rather stay and listen to the first speaker. So folks were really quite astonished that we could deliver an interesting speech on topic and on time with such distractions.
Was most pleased indeed to also get voted as the best of the three. Yesss - nothing like passion and obsession to deliver the goods.
So so much juicy tasty gossip and morsels in Izzieland that it is painful to be deprived of them all. At this stage - the Izzie has snatched the nastiest and sneaksiest provisions of the Rodent's Abolition of Liberty Bill and is still waiting for an opportunity to write and post her rant.
The bastard must have Dolores drafting his most devious legislation for him. Makes her Educational Decrees look like a civil rights love fest.
So, on hearing that our favorite supplier of serpent munchies (The ABC) has moved to a new address with a big fat coffee shop - what better possibility is there of finding a wifi friendly zone since all the busy broadcasters will want to be typing away with seditious intent over a cafe latte.
But first things first, will catch up on the local paper before taking the Preciousss out for a test run.
Oh, we had giggling fits of glee to read about a new play appearing soon about Izzie's adopted city.
This little snippet was part of the article - yesss -Izzie is dead serious
"The 'D' word is something we don't like to talk about. Kind of like "He Who Shall Not Be Named" in the Harry Potter books
Some people are very sensitive about the term but we more than anyone are qualified to criticise our own town"
Frankly, Izzie thinks that Dursleyville is an infinitely more accurate description than Dullsville but it's all pretty much the same thing.
But - after having to resort to going outside of the ABC building because we could not get our fix of Radio National inside and then discovering that there is a local wireless network but it is not available for the likes of Izzie - got to thinking that "The Dead Zone" might be a more appropriate moniker for the place.
(Late edition update) One peeved python after finally squiggling her Enron - the Movie review, slinks into the newest netcafe on the block to do a quick cut and paste. This mob are Korean. While they have the crappy old system of stupid tickets with numbers and pay after rather than the infinitely more preferable pay up front with user code and password print out - they do have the distinction of being laptop friendly and charging the same price for laptops as normal nasty PCs. Well. The map is not the territory. Izzie assumed that it was wifi friendly. But no. Dead as a doornail. Some stupid cable job and farting around with DNS codes, Internet Protocol Properties and what have you. The girl behind the counter was nice but not exactly nerdish. Oh and of course - confusion and puzzlement as the Izzie internet network and other control panels bear no resemblence at all to those of the Microsith Monolith. The poor thing looked totally bewildered as if our Preciousss had come from Mars. Did finally find the right screen and tossed in all the proper numbers but it just would not deliver the goodies. So back to the drawing board again. Those folks in Angel's Waffle Cafe are sure going to get a very nice Christmas card and bottle of plonk from one eternally grateful serpent. Would be so so lost without them. All you do there is lift the lid and you are up and running and it costs nothing but a coffee and waffle (or two) Yesss. Welcome to the Dead Zone of Dursleyville.
Will have to lurk there more often anyway in spite of this major minus point. Was sipping our latte (was too early to be swilling the chardonnay) when some reporter guy comes over to ask the Izzie what the big news story of the week was for us. Without hesitation we replied "The introduction of the Abolition of Liberty bill next week. When asked why we consider this important - said that it was like going back to the dark ages. Shoot to kill and torture and detention without trial have been regarded as barbaric for so long and now this government wants to make such things respectable and acceptable. This is the sort of things we used to complain about the Russians doing and now we are going along and copying them.
He asked what the Izzie thought we could do about it. No idea says the Izzie except to remember all this stuff at the next election if there is a next election.
Yesss. What can we do? That is the question. Ranting and squiggling on LJ is a great way of letting off steam but it won't change anything. Maybe will have to look to Fred and George for some inspiration.
Izzie's local member of parliament is one of those spineless jellyfish from the Labour party so not sure if it is any use at all writing to the bugger.
Most folks at work don't give a damn about such things. At least the public speaking group is different. It's the only opportunity outside of Cyberia that Izzie has to associate with anarchistic cynical eccentrics such as herself. Really must get back later to mention our impromptu speech this morning (three minutes only preparation time) on the topic of "All that glitters is not gold" Did have two to choose from - the other being "All good things must come to an end" Both were very easily twisted to Izzie's obsession with a certain energy company whose motto should have been "There is no good and evil. There is only power and those too weak to sell it"
The chairman challenged the Izzie to give a speech without mentioning Adolf Hitler, Hogwarts, Harry Potter or Dearest Dolores. We obliged and gossiped about goblins instead.
What was so funny - it is the usual practice that you leave the room after you have picked your slip of pink paper from the hat so that you have time to prepare a speech without distractions. Izzie declined the opportunity saying that we would rather stay and listen to the first speaker. So folks were really quite astonished that we could deliver an interesting speech on topic and on time with such distractions.
Was most pleased indeed to also get voted as the best of the three. Yesss - nothing like passion and obsession to deliver the goods.
