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  1. Charles Stross _ Overtime

    Twas the night before Christmas, the office was closed,The transom was shut, the staff home in repose;The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,But St. Nicholas won't be coming because this is a Designated National Security Site within the meaning of Para 4.12 of Section 3 of the Official Secrets Act {Amended} and unauthorised intrusion on such a site is an arrestable offense ...
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  2. Charles Stross _ Overtime

    This is a joke. Right?" I'm pointing at the green-screen terminal on the desk, and the huge dial-infested rotary phone beside it."No sir." Bill clears his throat. "Unfortunately the NDO's office budget was misfiled years ago and nobody knows the correct code to requisition new supplies. At least it's warm in winter: you're right on top of the classified document incinerator room, and it's got the only chimney in the building.
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  3. Charles Stross _ Overtime

    To a many-angled one, we impoverished entities who are stranded in three-plus-one dimensions are fairly harmless; nevertheless, even the inhabitants of flatland can inflict a nasty paper cut upon the unwary on occasion.
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  4. Charles Stross _ Overtime

    when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error.
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  5. Charles Stross _ Overtime

    Twas the night before Christmas, the office was closed, The transom was shut, the staff home in repose; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, But St. Nicholas won't be coming because this is a Designated National Security Site within the meaning of Para 4.12 of Section 3 of the Official Secrets Act {Amended} and unauthorised intrusion on such a site is an arrestable offense ...
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  6. Charles Stross _ Overtime

    Christmas: the one time of year when you can't avoid the nuts in your family muesli.
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  7. Charles Stross _ Overtime

    Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. {Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.}
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