The Ultimate Answer to Kings: It's done!

They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means "The Ultimate Argument of Kings," and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. "We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it's about: You'll do as I say or I'll send my goons to kill you."

I thought about that for a long time. If there's an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I've got bullets - he's got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that's not going to happen. So if there's an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain't bullets.

It finally came to me - and that's when I left the city, abandoned a goodly percentage of my goods, and gave all that was behind me a good, stiff Randian Shrug.

The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

It's done!

Gods help me now. The new 'pooter's on its way.

Micron Transport T2400 - Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66 GHz - 2 GB RAM - 80 GB HDD - 15.4" Display - DVD / CD-RW - WiFi - Dock - No Operating System Installed

Gotta go shovel goat shit now, to help pay for it.

3 comments:

Andy The Chicken said...: Hi, I'm here because of our mutual friend The Grey Lady. Congratulations on going non-microsoft! Linux is not as easy as they say; but it sure as hell beats "Windoze Genuine Advantage". I would love to help you reduce the size of your AVIs so that you can blog them. Would you be able to email me a small one, so that I can play with it and find good parameters? My email address is andythechicken (at) gmail (dot) com.; February 3, 2010 at 12:06 PM
Joel said...: No, no! The correct response is "Linux is so easy, a caveman can do it!" Work with me here!

The email has been sent, with as small an .avi file as I can create in the camera. Any further progress will be reported in the fullness of time. Thanks, all!; February 3, 2010 at 2:42 PM
Anonymous said...: "Linux is so easy, even a caveman can do it!"

... depending on which flavor of Linux you pick.

Trust me ... trust me ...; February 3, 2010 at 3:09 PM

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