{"id":126,"date":"2008-02-05T16:49:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T21:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2008-02-06T20:47:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T01:47:59","slug":"the-oracle-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"The oracle speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neil Gaiman* has a Magnificent Oracular Journal<\/a>. His ordinary journal<\/a> is anything but ordinary**, as one might expect, so I anticipated great things from the Magnificent Oracle. <\/p>\n

I shook the Mystical Ball of Truth as instructed. I shook it extra-hard, just to make sure, while concentrating on a Very Important Question. (No, I shan’t tell you what it was. That would spoil everything.) Still concentrating, I released the Mystical Ball of Truth, anticipating a great revelation. And the MBT said:<\/p>\n

?<\/p>\n

I kid you not. The dialog box contained only a question mark. Apparently my VIQ is unknowable, even by Neil Gaiman’s Magnificent Oracular Journal. Wow.<\/p>\n

I shook again, and the MBT told me:<\/p>\n

“And I need to close many tabs and windows, so…”<\/p>\n

Perhaps my concentration on the VIQ slipped a bit.<\/p>\n

* You don’t know who Neil Gaiman is? Go read some short stories<\/a>!<\/p>\n

** My expectation of unordinariness is probably colored by many years of Gaiman-worship, and it’s only gotten worse since I started reading his blog. Neil (not that he and I are actually<\/em> on a first-name basis) even answers reader questions, and seems like a normal human being, despite the monochrome black, the interesting hair, and the things that crawl out of his braid<\/del> brain onto paper. Well okay, not really normal<\/em>, but he seems like someone you’d actually want to talk to, though perhaps not after midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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