Rumours from the valley of the Silicon DLLs

It used to be great to hang out with the silicon valley wives and compare notes and that, but the party scene just ain't what it used to be down there.

That's how I ended up chewing the cud with an old pal of mine in San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel. I'd just ordered a drink but was truly staggered when I saw The Pabster, the handsome husky-spoken charmer Derek Perez and young scuba diving Dan Vivoli head in and grab a seat for dinner.

I'd already ducked my head down when a young guy from Anandtech and some feller from ATI had passed me a few minutes earlier. Could this be some weird secret conspiracy me and Jill had stumbled on? Jill hadn't arrived so I went for a little walk and was staggered to find that the Maitre' Di had plonked the Nvidia-Pabster combo on a table right next to the table the ATI guy and the Anandtech kid were occupying.

Sheesh!

I headed back to quaff my Blow Job cocktail and when Jill tipped couldn't resist shooting the gossip.

She had some of her own. She says the rumor is that the Pabster is actually thinking of taking over Extremetech. No, I said. Yes, she said. Sheesh, what a rumor! But can it be true?

Dan, Dan the scuba man would recognise me straight off, so I asked Jill to take a walk back thru the restaurant and see what was going on.

She came back to report that the tables weren't pushed together or anything, but they seemed to be doing impressions of Fudo.

No! I said. Yes! she said. Sheesh! I said... µ