To set the tone just right for the first non-meta post at the new digs, I offer you possibly the best cheese of the early 80s:
General: We have won again. That is good! But what is best in life?
Warrior: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcon on your wrist, wind in your hair!
General: Wrong! Conan, what is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!
General: That is good.
Is that some portentous cheese or what?
I finally decided that Blogspot and I had to go our separate ways. It’s nearly my first blog-anniversary, so a shiny new space seemed appropriate.
All the old stuff will still be archived at the original tigtogblog
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