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Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Wordsmith

So bright!

Ask yourself what significance words have to you?  Be honest with your answer.  Do you treat them with care and respect like a loaded handgun, or do you fling them at everyone with reckless abandon?  Do you pretend to know the meaning of words you use even though your usage indicates a clear lack of understanding?  Do you struggle to elucidate your points because you don't know what elucidate means?

You are not alone if you answered yes to any of those questions.  While you may feel alone and exposed because of your word ignorance, despite the fact I just told you that you weren't alone, AcMo is here to save the day anyway.  We eviscerate ignorance and bring full word enlightenment to those who are ready.

There was a time when blacksmiths were the only source for quality steel and iron tools and weapons. Their anvils were subjected to daily poundings, the metal clang reverberating throughout the area as new creations were forged through the tedious process.  That sound was a reassuring reminder that quality work was being accomplished.  Creating products was a loud art that lead to a lot of premature hearing loss and tinnitus.  OSHA wasn't as diligent in those days.  I miss those days of hearing impaired artisans who cared for each and every creation.  One bad product could ruin a smith's livelihood.  Today parts are stamped out in hot factories by workers who will never be associated with the part, and don't have to worry about their reputations.  It was the designer, engineer, or materials supplier's fault if a part failed, never the person operating the press.  A smith only had his fire, hammer, and anvil to apportion blame for a faulty part.  No one can stay cross at an anvil for more than a few fleeting moments.

AcMo manufacturers a lot of our proprietary parts the old fashioned way:  dot matrix 3D printers.  We have spent the last 20 years stockpiling these printers from garage sales and corporate emergency asset purges in preparation for the day that the technology would be viable.  A lot of people laughed at us when they saw the printer warehouse, but I was confident we would have the last laugh.  Current printer ink cartridge pricing is a validation of our approach.  We have also pioneered the use of oil in modern cartridges because oil is much more economical by the barrel than ink.  Colors are a bit more difficult to create, but we get past that by convincing people they are colorblind.  There could be trouble once the ink and oil cartels figure out what we've been doing.  We will continue printing with oil until that time, and then take the appropriate actions to maintain our market dominant position.

The above image is a representation of our state of the art printer warehouse.  Our printers have been modified, and no longer look like small refrigerators.  Unfortunately, I am barred from publicly displaying our technology because we can't afford to let our competitors copy our modifications.  These printers have transcended the word to now print glorious experimental products.  All of our melting trafficide weapons system frames were created from our dot matrix printers.  Because the printers now print parts, we had to figure out a new way to spread words to the world.

In AcMo's version of how things should work, one searching for words would have the option of stopping at a wordsmith's branch--conveniently located adjacent to the blacksmith's forge--to pick up a shiny new broadsword and some fresh new words to dazzle acquaintances and the general public. This utopian dream was crippled by robots with computerized brains that didn't require words.

Emotions are still overflowing when I think back on what could have been if not for the robots.  The word creating system was robust and appealing to all of society who could afford a wordsmith.  Despite the fallacies spread by the advertising agencies, true wordsmith quality is not cheap or easy.  Only discerning customers who possessed an appreciation for luxury words understood.  Why speak the same language as everyone else when you can have your own special words?  The situation became even more intriguing when daring smiths went against grammar standards and started modifying word placement in sentences.  That's when it became real too all (see there what I did?).

A client would arrive in the morning with a list of desired words and their intended usage.  The wordsmith would spend the rest of the day typing on the typewriter until the appropriate words appeared.  Order price increased by word count and complexity, but the important point is that the wordsmiths were contributing to the future.  Each new word would take root in the public's consciousness until it had ingrained itself in the current lexicon.  It was the wordsmith's duty to then create additional new words once a word became popular.

Those were the days of free word association before spoken word and open mic nights ruined all of that.  The data AcMo compiled indicates that the only true way to control the words is to create them, which is why we are doubling down on resurrecting wordsmith branches.  Word control is a consolidation of power, and power is what every car needs to go faster.  Quite simply, if we control the words, we have the power, and then our engines will flourish.  Sure, it isn't as straightforward as I've detailed here, but someone else will leap ahead of us if I provide the entire blueprint.  You'll have to either use your imagination or wait until an AcMo Wordsmith branch opens near you.

Poor Honda is in desperate need of word control to increase both power and reliability of their engines.  AcMo has sent repeated urgent communiqués proposing an efficient solution, but we think something--more like everything--was being lost in translation to Japanese.  Based on past history, if we wait until Honda decides to quit the sport again, we will be able to buy their operation for $1 US and then turn it into a world championship producing engine.  Hey, it worked for Ross Brawn, it can work for AcMo.
No words & No power
This Ferrari engine had a patent on the sound of glory.  I miss those days.  Once we control the words and, by extension the rules, we will return F1 to the days of V12 and V10 wonder.  I hope all of you unenlightened are starting to see how important words are to everything except robots.

POWER!  There's never enough.

Until Tesla turns a profit or charging times are reduced to a few minutes, internal combustion engines will continue to rule the world.  The earth will stop spinning when the engines become extinct.  AcMo is committed to keeping the earth moving at all costs.  That is a promise.  Our wordsmith program is only second to our engine detonation and development program.  Everything is connected.



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