{"id":339,"date":"2001-04-16T09:59:05","date_gmt":"2001-04-16T13:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp\/2001\/04\/16\/economics-101\/"},"modified":"2001-04-16T09:59:05","modified_gmt":"2001-04-16T13:59:05","slug":"economics-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/2001\/04\/16\/economics-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well. Week three. One more week, and this will win the award for being the longest running gig I&#8217;ve had all year.<\/p>\n<p>Joe tells me that we&#8217;re now getting actual people visiting our humble site. <em>(I just tell him that so he&#8217;ll keep on drawing strips -JBE)<\/em> I&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to welcome you all. When we first started, all of two weeks ago, Joe informed me that we had five unique hits a day, split evenly between Mac users and Bell High Speed Edition users. Sounds impressive for a new site, until you consider that I own and operate a famous Mac, and Joe is one of the HSE Elite.<\/p>\n<p>Joe told me, or rather tried to tell me, all about the cool things we could do with our site, server-wise, that is. Something about tracking and uploading and FTPing and whatnot. Tell you the truth, I don&#8217;t quite understand it all. I used to be a techno-geek, but I&#8217;ve lost interest. I check e-mail maybe twice a week, unless Joe informs me that he&#8217;s sent me a new strip, and the latest in processing power just doesn&#8217;t give me the rise it does anymore. Hell, even gaming isn&#8217;t interesting me anymore. I used to get excited at the next pretty thing to be announced, but now most of my gaming conversations center around Black &#038; White, Fallout Tactics, and Neverwinter Nights. Someone told me that my new attitude was because I&#8217;m growing up, to which I say, &#8220;pah!&#8221; For, not unike the illustrious Peter Pan, or even that dang-blasted Toys R Us kid, I have no intentions of growing up.<\/p>\n<p>Or, rather, I *had* no intentions of growing up. Maybe growing up is one of<br \/>\nthose things that just happens, whether you like it or not, like pimples or Backstreet Boys concerts. One minute, you&#8217;re blasting rock and roll music, running around looking at all the cool things you could be doing, and the next you&#8217;re listening to string quartets sipping cappacinos in a coffee house, wondering why those damn kids always play their rock and roll so loud. Nay, scratch that, wondering why they play their damn *alternative* so loud. Hell, I don&#8217;t even know how the fuck to spell capacino, or capachino, or whatever, but i&#8217;m finding myself in William&#8217;s at least once a week sucking the damn things down.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll be damned if they ain&#8217;t the best things since orange pop. Maybe growing up isn&#8217;t all that bad after all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you know.<br \/>\nCiao.<br \/>\nArmaani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well. Week three. One more week, and this will win the award for being the longest running gig I&#8217;ve had all year. Joe tells me that we&#8217;re now getting actual people visiting our humble site. 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