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Paper DONE.
I am finished with my term paper on Bayesian belief networks. Shockingly, I am not sick of the topic. I'm actually interested in learning more, albeit for AI purposes rather than data mining like my term paper. This is fearsome, because the topic is laden with more statistics than you can shake a stick at and I have always hated/feared Stat ever since getting a D in Stat for Social Science Majors. I can hear the Syndicate closing in on me now... (Yes, the syndies, not the VA. Trust me, J. W. Kruger is clearly Syndicate rather than VA - and absolutely fascinating thereby.)
Now the only question is, do I watch Iron Monkey first, or The Emperor and The Assassin?
Oh, yeah, I left one item out of yesterday's post about Disturbing Business Names. A truck drove by my office a month or two ago. According to its flanks, it was the property of "Overnight Ground Force Systems - your overnight ground force!" And yes, it had silhouettes of people on it, not earth-moving machines. Weird.
Today's pulp survival tip is #9: If you're headed for your goal and encounter a room where the floor is alive with snakes, bugs, or any other kind of crawling creature, give real consideration to finding an alternative route. You might still have to cross the bugs - but you'll probably have to make a fast escape and you'll be much happier if you don't need to worry about running away from bugs as well as people and/or the Supernatural Menace.
Now the only question is, do I watch Iron Monkey first, or The Emperor and The Assassin?
Oh, yeah, I left one item out of yesterday's post about Disturbing Business Names. A truck drove by my office a month or two ago. According to its flanks, it was the property of "Overnight Ground Force Systems - your overnight ground force!" And yes, it had silhouettes of people on it, not earth-moving machines. Weird.
Today's pulp survival tip is #9: If you're headed for your goal and encounter a room where the floor is alive with snakes, bugs, or any other kind of crawling creature, give real consideration to finding an alternative route. You might still have to cross the bugs - but you'll probably have to make a fast escape and you'll be much happier if you don't need to worry about running away from bugs as well as people and/or the Supernatural Menace.
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http://www.ladydisdain.com/planningasky/012000.html : "I passed a truck on the New Jersey Turnpike the other day. On the side it had a cartoony looking soldier and it said, OVERNIGHT GROUND FORCE SYSTEMS: Your Overnight Ground Force! and a toll free number for the Army, I think. Okay. If this is the Army, why do they need catchy slogans? And more importantly, can I call up and order my very own overnight ground force? Hello, is this My Overnight Ground Force?...great, I'd like to invade a neighbouring town tonight...can you send some men over?"
She didn't write down the number either. Myself, I thought the soldiers looked more like Redcoats than modern soldiers, but...
Wait. Found it.
http://hometown.aol.com/rrbernoulli/myhomepage/index.html - "I'm Iron Mike Burke. I'm called Iron Mike not after the boxer, but because I have displayed remarkable resiliency in times of trouble where I just seem to bounce right back. Presently I operate a truck for Air Contact Transport / Overnight Ground Force Systems based in New Jersey."
www.superpages.com lists three numbers for Air Contact Transport in the state of New Jersey. You want Netcong, Budd Lake, or Monmouth Junction? It doesn't say which one specifically represents Overnight Ground Force Systems, though, more's the pity.
Once again, the barrier between the world the rest of America lives in, and the world I live in, is abrading painfully thin.