![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Reality abrasions?
Apr. 28th, 2002 10:46 pmThis is stuff I've seen in RL that I can't help but wonder about. Every so often it feels as if someone from an RPG setting is naming businesses and/or people in my immediate vicinity. It all started ages and ages ago when I tabletopped Feng Shui, but lately there's just been too many businesses... well, here, you tell me. Each and every one of these is something I've seen RL in the past six months or so. Sometimes on the actual buildings, sometimes as names on the sides of their vehicles.
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Golan Disaster Recovery
Smokey's Catastrophe Cleaning Service
Siemens - Cerberus Division (which I think has to do with...)
Cerberus Pyrotechnics
Ceramic Magnetics, Incorporated
Phoenix Courier and Trucking Corp. (which had the slogan 'When it absolutely, positively had to be there yesterday!', which is disturbing in and of itself)
Neon Eagle (turned out to be an advertising business, but it sounded like something a cranky Akashic would slap on his culturally Western student)
And one person, a scientist - biology, I think- by the name of Cipher Deavours. Which sounds like something someone on a MUSH would try to get away with and think themselves very clever thereby.
I have a term paper due Tuesday night on Bayesian belief networks and data mining. The Chinese history lessons will commence again after that, starting with Confucius.
Today's pulp survival tip is #73. If a supernatural entity - evil or otherwise - offers you a choice between multiple similar items, one of which is your desired goal and the rest of which will kill you, give some consideration to making the supernatural entity your test subject. Should this be impossible or should your conscience not allow it, go back to rule #3 and choose your item based on the lore and appropriate traditions of your mythos.
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Golan Disaster Recovery
Smokey's Catastrophe Cleaning Service
Siemens - Cerberus Division (which I think has to do with...)
Cerberus Pyrotechnics
Ceramic Magnetics, Incorporated
Phoenix Courier and Trucking Corp. (which had the slogan 'When it absolutely, positively had to be there yesterday!', which is disturbing in and of itself)
Neon Eagle (turned out to be an advertising business, but it sounded like something a cranky Akashic would slap on his culturally Western student)
And one person, a scientist - biology, I think- by the name of Cipher Deavours. Which sounds like something someone on a MUSH would try to get away with and think themselves very clever thereby.
I have a term paper due Tuesday night on Bayesian belief networks and data mining. The Chinese history lessons will commence again after that, starting with Confucius.
Today's pulp survival tip is #73. If a supernatural entity - evil or otherwise - offers you a choice between multiple similar items, one of which is your desired goal and the rest of which will kill you, give some consideration to making the supernatural entity your test subject. Should this be impossible or should your conscience not allow it, go back to rule #3 and choose your item based on the lore and appropriate traditions of your mythos.
