Thanks to a fellow Rob (with whom I work) for pointing this out to me as an apocalyptic sign.

The Pope is releasing a spoken word CD. Good for him. Everybody has the right to express themselves. But, I’m mildly concerned by how he’s choosing to go about it.

In order to “get in touch with the young people” (I suppose), Britney Spears, *NSync, and Faith Hill will be backing him up on the CD.

Do they expect this will this make young Teenie Boppers put down their loud offensive ghetto blasters, body piercings, and premarital physical relationships and go to church? I’m not sure, they’ll try anything.

Somehow I don’t think the Pope really had anything to do with the presentation of his CD. I think it was probably whoever the Vatican hired to promote and distribute the CD. The good people and co-distributors at Compulsion Entertainment (entertaining compulsions is potentially sinful) might have something to do about that lineup.

It’s true.

After writing my last post, where I linked to Online Support (OLS), I tested the links to make sure they were all pimp-tight.

I started combing through the OLS page and giggled when I saw the link “OLS is about people“.

I giggled further when I saw “Our Front Line” after that.

I turned bright purple when I saw who’s “I’m quitting on good terms and I might want a reference later” email was quoted.

As I was making my daily visit to Vince’s fine page today, the image next to the day’s post reminded me of a site I would frequent when I worked at Online Support which (among other things) made great product spoofs.

This site is the headquarters of the Afrosquad. I was pleasantly surprised to see how much it had changed over the past few years. The part that amused me specifically was the movies section. The movies themselves aren’t high quality, but, the effort put into them makes up for that. My favorite so far is the one for ‘Asswipes’ (so your hand don’t smell like ass).

They average a delicious 3 minutes each, totally worth your time. The rest of the page is also full of good material.

I’m so embarrassed by this event I decided to post about it for everybody to see.

About a week or so ago, I set up IIS on my system so that I could practice my mad ASP skills in preparation for a new job. So. I plopped it on, played with it for a day or two, then forgot I had it installed. Today, a couple of weeks later, I find out that my IIS default page was horribly, horrible, defaced by a k-rad 1337 h4x0r.

To his credit, he was a political activist (dare I say, satirical genius?). So, I thought since he went through all the trouble to deface my private web server (which I foolishly left with the default username/password for the FTP) I would pass on the message he left me for a greater audience:

(For effect, I used the same font, colors, and formatting as the elite llama)

I’m following Matt’s example and I shall suggest a fine musical group.

Joy Electric is a fine example of analogue synth pop. It grows on you. I liked it because I spent many hours in front of a Game Boy enjoying the musical score to the Final Fantasy Legend series, and I believe that you just can’t beat a good square wave.

I just listened to an unreleased track of Ronnie’s (he’s the frontman, but sometimes he works with others) at mp3.com and suggest that you go take a look.

Monosynth and Parlor Inventor are my favorites.

In my short 18 years as a television watcher, I have come to the decision that M*A*S*H is one of a handful of shows which I consider to be good. I’m sad to say that I’d watch almost anything if I was bored, but not necessarily enjoy it. Steven likes Northern Exposure. Maybe I should watch it, but I never seem to be sitting on the couch when it’s on.

A lot of people also like “All in the Family” but, I get frustrated at the old guy. TLC has good stuff on it like Junkyard Wars and Battlebots, which I try to watch frequently, but, I often find myself missing stories and learning about characters and watching them develop as they do in M*A*S*H.

Apparently there is a M*A*S*H spin-off with Trapper working at a hospital when he gets home from the war. I guess it wasn’t as good, because we don’t get 2 episodes a day of it on Prime.

I’ll finish this with a quote I found:

“It is amazing how the show is enjoyed by people who were hardly on the planet when we made it. Amazing and terrific.” -Alan Alda (Hawkeye)

(The title is one of Hawkeye’s finest lines, when the OR was shorthanded. But, it’s possible that educated should be intelligent I can’t remember.)

I was shown this this link by a fine young man (older than myself), and I have interpreted it as a sign of the coming apocalypse. Steve was also able to spot #47.

In Thailand, the first Oxygen bar opened. Where humans, frustrated from lack of or poor oxygen, can kick back with a cool drink, 20 minutes of scented oxygen, and relaxing muzak. All that will put you back 3.95.

I’m reminded of that commercial with bum drinking oxygen from a tree-in-a-jar that ran a few years ago. And at Spaceballs where that guy cracks open a can of air for a sniff at his desk. It sure was funny at the time, wasn’t it?

I was pleasently amazed when I saw this for the first time. It has the cuteness of normal stick figure death theatre, which has improved greatly since they graduated from animated Gifs to Flash, but the hardcore action and soothing soundtrack of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

They even added a nifty VCR control on the top so you can watch the action frame by frame, or rewind to watch your favorite spot again. Enjoy!

It says during the intro to this that it’s #3, should you know where the first 2 are, please pass on the goods.

Jeez. Everybody’s feeling fantastic. Despite outrageous, heinous, otherwise ordinary reports of bad weather, we all know that summer is coming.

But the humans have yet to adapt. But they’re getting there. I was driving around for the good part of today with a good pal, enjoying the spring-esque weather, and watching people. The first, most obvious thing I saw was people walking up half the road, when the sidewalks no longer have snow on them. When the humans come to this realization, they will get off the road, but, it’s transition time.

Another thing I noticed was an alarming number of people wearing their massive Canadian-Winter grade snowsuits. Still more adjusting to do.

These facts may not be particularly fascinating, but I found them interesting. Good day!

My relatives (all from Québec) are visiting this week and I always enjoy being with them because I get a kick out of thier culture. It seems they have a fine little song for everything, something I find missing in English, we only have Christmas songs. This being Easter, I was introduced to to the following facinating song (translated for the French-impared):

J’aime la jambon et la sausise!
I enjoy ham and sausage,

J’aime la jambon, c’est bon!
I enjoy ham, it’s good,

J’aime encore mieux, les cuisses d’la grosse Alice,

I enjoy big Alice’s thighs, more than ham and sausage,

J’aime la jambon, c’est bon.
I enjoy ham, it’s enjoyable.

They’re so jolly, I love them, I love French-Canadians.