Out of the Blue

Turns out I was the one that broke my net connection. Without giving the matter enough thought, I plugged in a modular phone cord without a splitter or a DSL filter, and this turned out to be the cause of my connectivity woes. Luckily I finally made the connection, and things returned to normal immediately.

Speaking of returns to normalcy, I believe we finally got the Tickle ad campaign removed (after a couple of failed attempts) after they slipped a decidedly non-work-safe image (bewbs) into one of their personals. Sorry about that.

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but in the end, I believe the genome mapping to be incredibly positive.
eh, i think you forget basic human nature. Like every other technology, gene programming will be used for little more than to enhance crudeness. (hm, an oxymoron?)

the original visions for TV, internet and modern pharmaceuticals all degenerated into reality shows, pr0n and 3-day-boner pills.

Years ago working at a game company we got a demo prototype for one of the first voice synthesis units, a couple thousand $$$ chunk of hardware that could supposedly be used to "aid the blind" etc. The dept manager grabbed it and spent the day getting it to recite...
a Shakespeare sonnet? no...
an inspiring Bible verse? no...
a charming childrens nursurey rhyme? no...

he spent the day keying in hex opcodes on a keypad to get it to say:
"i need a woman to squat on my face"

So, Human Genome programming?
Rather than "Freedom from Multiple Sclerosis" or "A Cure For Cancer", what we'll produce will be gene mods for a 10 foot shlong and nipple propellers, or something equally Noble and socially redeeming.
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