Argile and Sven discuss the psychological ramifications of sword-based home defense.

8:53 AM Argile: help! It’s like viral poison! http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage

8:56 AM Sven: you don’t approve of this project?

8:58 AM Argile: it’s sucking my time away like some sort of fiendish chronovacuum

 Sven: why?

Argile Complains, Sven Whines about Programming

Argile: this morning has been nuts. and is going to continue to be nuts.

Sven: that’s unfortunate

guess i’ll be amusing myself today, eh?

9:29 AM Argile: well, I’ve got a meeting at 10, then bww, but this afternoon will be grunt work so I’ll be here then, you can talk to Wulgar.

Sven: uh, great

9:32 AM Argile: hey, you know I’m just trying to expand your social life

9:34 AM Sven: otherwise i’m just a few steps away from running off to the alaskan wilderness, growing a bushy beard, and living off of grubs for the rest of my life

Sven’s pissant cousin moves into the neighborhood, Argile gets an ego boost from a writing assessment.

Argile:  you busy again today?

 Sven:  nope

in fact, the office is empty except for me right now

I know my boss has meetings all morning

you?

Sven and Argile talk Kennedy, Monkey Suits, and Web Design

Argile: Senator Kennedy died. Sadness.

Sent at 8:56 AM on Wednesday

Sven: yeah, that was a bummer

last Kennedy standing

Sent at 9:00 AM on Wednesday

Argile: well, if Schwarzenegger has a son somewhere, he’s technically a kennedy

Sven: yeah…i guess i meant from his generation

usually kennedies are supposed to die young and violent

Sven helps Argile through the Kubler-Ross stages of grief

Argile:  a cynical quote: It’s easy to get lots of people to hate you – just be really good at something you love

 

 Sent at 8:23 AM on Tuesday

 

 Sven:  that is rather cynical

but as with most things cynical, also fairly true

 

Sven has a new crush, Argile reads “Ignore Everybody” and gets philosophical

Argile: hey, what’s up

Sven: well, it’s monday

Argile: do your classes start today?

it’s strange reading about people starting their stuff

Sven: i’ll bet

i have class on wednesday and thursday

blarg

Sven hates consultants, Argile dreams of being a space explorer

 Argile:  man, I’m depressed and slightly scared now

go to www.esquire.com and read the “Everybody Hates Obama” story

 Sent at 9:01 AM on Thursday

 Argile:  and then read the two-part series linked to it about the “birther” movement

Sven and Argile talk Scientology, Studies in Crap, and Political Girlfriends

Argile: meetings. and now I actually have a few things to do. you?

Sven: got nothing, but the boss just showed up so that might change

my cousin’s getting moved into the dorms at school today, so i’m meeting up with his family for lunch, so at least i have that going for me

Argile: sweetness, is this the goofy one you mentioned who likes videogames

Sven: this is the one that spent a year in a program for troubled teens

Argile: gotcha

Sven is a Mac, Argile is a PC

…

Sven:  it’ll be a couple months

right now i’m in financial shambles because a couple of sizeable bills came up in a short time span: health insurance and tuition

Argile: again, I’m not saying Macs are bad computers, I’m saying they’re over-priced for what you want out of them

even if you have no desire to play games, you could pay $300 – $400 and get a fine PC, $500 for a good laptop that’d do everything your mac does

Sven and Argile talk Aliens, TV, and Football with Guest Commentary by Thomas Hardy

Argile: yo yo what up

Sven::  you know, just kickin’ it

you?

Sent at 8:50 AM on Monday

Argile: listening to a novel and catching up on random email

Sven::  sounds exciting