BEg2 chapter 4 odds & ends (3rd & last) Deep Archer

[Mark Kohut]

But there are 8 (eight) other definitions of the slang phrase "D & D" which
is also typical Pynchon,
one of them being "Dungeons & Dragons", of course. Another very popular
game world as it were.


On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 5:22 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> ....."Professionally Deaf & Dumb".....I think.
>
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 12:08 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> “The game is just a promotional freebie,” Vyrva frowning cute-apologetic.
>> “Our product is still totally DeepArcher?”
>>           “Which is  . . .”
>>          “Like ‘departure,’ only you pronounce it DeepArcher?”
>>
>> “Zen thing,” Maxine guesses.
>>
>>   “Weed thing. Just lately everybody’s been after the source code—the
>> feds,
>> game companies, fuckin Microsoft? all have offers on the table? It’s the
>> security design—like nothing any of these people’ve ever seen, and it’s
>> makin them all crazy.”
>>
>> “So, today you were out scouting your next round? Who’s the lucky VC this
>> time?”
>>   “Can you keep a secret?”
>>      “What I do. Professionally D and D.”
>>
>>
>> - I’m stumped. Discreet & ?
>>
>>
>>
>> “Maybe,” Vyrva considers, “we should pinkie-swear?”
>>    Maxine patiently holding out her pinkie, hooking it with Vyrva’s and
>> obtaining eye contact, “Then again—”
>> [This is Vyrva having qualms?]
>>
>> “Hey, if you can’t trust another Kugelblitz mom?”
>> [This is Maxine, “overcoming objections?”]
>>
>>          So, with the usual caveats, Maxine keeps her other hand in her
>> pocket with fingers crossed as she solemnly pinkie-swears.
>>
>> - oh, Maxine!
>>
>>
>> “I think we got a preempt today? Even back at the height of the tech
>> bubble, this would be awesome money? And it’s not a VC, it’s another tech
>> company? Big deal this year down in the Alley, hashslingrz?”
>>
>>   Whoopwhoopwhoop.
>>
>> [Danger, Will Robinson]
>>
>> “Yeah . . . think I’ve . . . heard that name. That’s where you were
>> today?”
>>  “All day down there. I’m still, like, vibrateen? He’s a bundle of energy,
>> that guy.”
>>   “Gabriel Ice. He’s made you a big offer to buy, what, this source code?”
>>
>>  Ear to shoulder, one of those long West Coast shrugs, “He sure came up
>> with a impressive piece of change from someplace? Enough to rethink the
>> IPO? We already put the red herring on indefinite hold?”
>>
>>
>>  Red herring - preliminary prospectus
>>
>> https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/redherring.asp
>>
>>
>> (Skipping a bit)
>>
>> “All they want is, there’s a part about getting somewhere without leaving
>> a
>> trail.
>>             The content, they could care less. It isn’t about the
>> destination or even the trip,
>>             really, not for these jokers.”
>>
>>
>>          Maxine is much too familiar by now, even God forbid intimate,
>> with
>> this cover-your-tracks
>>             attitude. Next it morphs from innocent greed into some
>> recognizable form of fraud.
>>             She wonders if anybody’s ever run a Beneish model on
>> hashslingrz, just to see how
>>             ritually slaughtered the public numbers are. Note to self—find
>> the time. “This DeepArcher,
>>             Vyrva, it’s what—a place?”
>>
>>
>>          “It’s a journey. Next time you’re over, the boys’ll give you a
>> demo.”
>>
>>
>> Beneish model -
>> https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/beneishmodel.asp
>>
>> The Beneish model is a mathematical model that uses financial ratios and
>> eight variables to identify whether a company has manipulated its
>> earnings.
>> It is used as a tool to uncover financial fraud
>> <https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fraud.asp>.
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