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The Pennelo situation gets weirder, I just got a call from some lady at XAOS, wanting to send me some information on a special they are running on Pennelo ("have you heard of it?" she asks), and that they had got my name from Autodesk. I asked her what the special was, I asked her about the fact that they just dropped their price from 995 to 395, and if this was now a special for less than that, and she said she didn't know, she just made the phone calls. I then asked her how was it I knew more than she did about the company she was working for, but she didn't seem to find this as funny as I did. Of course she had no idea that XAOS had once promised to come up and show off Pennelo to our user group about three months back and bailed out at the last minute. I didn't bother informing her. I told her to go ahead and send whatever she had…