January 15, 2008

• Those. Are. AWESOME! But I'm not so sure how excited I am to travel to the off-world colonies if "magnetic strips used in our cards on Earth would be damaged beyond repair by cosmic radiation." Is it just me, or is THAT the problem we should be addressing first?
• *waits for his new space shave and space haircut*
• Too many quids in that article. *shudders*
• hmm. A storage medium required that does not use magnetism or magnetic domains. Looks like the return of punch cards.
• Oh, dear, quid's taking over space again. Only this time he's doing it through finance. P.S. I want to take their grant writer to lunch. But he'll have to write a grant to pay the check.
• In EARTH money.
• Puny humans not know Luncheon Vouchers are intergalactic preferred currency.
• I move we start using this now, just to get used to it. Would make ATMs kind of interesting. Hmmm....
• Anybody think that if we put two of 'em together with a string in the middle we could have intergalactic yoyos?
• Yoyos don't work in zero-G, think about it, they won't come back up and the astronaut goes back and forth on the string while they just sit there causing confusion in physics and eventually they rip a hole in the fabric of the space-time continuum causing all sorts of problems, then my mom got scared, she said 'you're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.' I whistled for a cab and when it came near, the license plate said "Fresh" and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought nah, forget it, Yo homes, to Bel-Air! I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabby, 'Yo homes, smell ya later!' I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.
• They don't? I thought yoyos worked on friction and momentum. We still have those in space, right? Of course, I only got a 76% on my recent eighth-grade science test, so what do I know.
• I'm always completely serious and tell the truth the whole time.
• Looks like the return of punch cards. "Sir banker, I know I had more than 6 billion ZorkBux yesterday... I just got paid!" "I'm so sorry, sir. A hanging chad confused the ZorkCounter 8000. We're still charging you the 800 million in NSF fees, though." /future bank conversation
• I know it's square (AND THEREFORE DANGEROUS IN SPACE!) to take this seriously, but did anyone else look at these and think that they seemed too bulky to make a practical currency? I don't know how much they weigh, but each "coin" just seems to occupy too much physical volume. I mean we might as well carry around the tiny bouncy-balls that children buy for 25 (hazardous, sharp-edged!) cents in coin-op vending machines. Dropping one would be super-funny in zero-g.
• Umm, dumb question -- what's wrong with good ol' gold-pressed latinum? I'll stick with my Quatloos, thanks...
• But think how satisfying it will be for an entire generation of erstwhile D&D fans to dust off their dice bags and put them to good use. In space! P.S. When we are in space, anyone who calls me "milady" will get such a smack.
• *begins hoarding tiny rubber bouncing balls* *laughs maniacally*
• Does Quid know he's made of non-stick pan polymers? When I saw him last year he seemed quite human, but appearances can be deceiving, I guess.
• Nobody has seen the face of Quid and lived. Oh, except for that one dued.
• We're not interested in his face. Watching the mantle when stoking the fire and all that...
• There is nothing non-stick about quid.
• Monkeyfilter: we're not interested in his face And here I was thinking sexual favors would be the medium of exchange on those long, cold, boring interestellar trips...
• All I long for is to see Sigourney Weaver in her underpants again.
• What? She's 100 years old!
• So is Ralph.
• There has to be a joke to be made about the mantle/fire thing and the non-stick face. I'm just saying. (But, you know, I'm too lazy to come up with it myself.)
• WHOSE fire is the Captain stoking? Inquiring minds, and all that...
• Sigourney is TEH hot. Is, was and always will be.