Author: substitute

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Theology explained by infobot

<ignatz> seen jesus
<purl> jesus was last seen on #perl 40 days, 23 hours, 39 minutes and 34 seconds ago, saying: Bit rot [Mon Sep 2 04:48:46 2002]
<cogent> Jesus is talking about bit rot?
<ignatz> maybe God is using the excuse generator
<ignatz> purl, excuse for a flawed world created by an all-knowing, all-loving God
<purl> ignatz: heavy gravity fluctuation, move computer to floor rapidly
<cogent> I can’t decide whether that’s a good enough excuse.
<ignatz> purl, excuse for the problem of free will and evil in Man created by an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God
<purl> ignatz: le0: no carrier: transceiver cable problem?
<cogent> Now *that* is a good excuse.
<ignatz> yeah, if the ethernet was out that could make a big difference in the whole setup
<cogent> Yeah. Maybe Man was intended to have ‘net connections, by which he could get advice.
<ignatz> and then someone forgot to get a good set of cables

bad day at the evil empire

As Torgo would say, I live under the Clearchannel Death Star, so radio is a bit odd these days. And by odd I mean “run by devil robots”.

Today I was brainlessly listening to Arrow 93, our “Classic Rock” station, because my jazz station was in pledge mode. First, they played Rod Stewart disco (“Young Hearts blart blar”) which was manifestly not Classic Rock. But hey, they’re marketers, they know what they’re doing.

Then the DJ came on and was blarbling along happily about party on man! And he was so happy. And he was happy because it was Friday and the weekend was here woo woo! Which is what classic rock DJs all say to their hapless listeners. One small problem; today is Thursday.

In the old days I would have assumed that the DJ was completely baked having consumed a gigantic strong joint in the parking lot before his shift. Nowadays, I have to assume that someone in the Death Star hit the wrong satellite button and we were getting the “Friday Tape”, or that the DJ was broadcasting live from an underground complex in North Dakota to 53 cities and had no idea what day it was any more.

Logan, it’s time for Carousel.

Happy Hlaghoween

This is all Torgo’s fault, trust me.

They have a matching one for the girls too.

Had I a child, I would dress it as Hannibal Lecter I think. I hate Halloween. It’s all adults drinking in clown suits and kids eating too much candy and getting sick. I’ve been told it’s the second-highest grossing holiday after Christmas here in the States now. This is mostly due to the Budweiserization of the holiday and lots of grownups puking up their beer and candy corn in the bushes. I liked it better when it was a kids’ dressup day, a kind of innocent interpretation of the day of the dead.

the decline and fall of food

For his birthday or something, a few years ago, we got some spray frosting. The flavor was listed as “black”. We laughed and laughed. What awful stuff, we said, who would ever buy it for real.

Tonight in the market I saw some store brand cookies being sold called “White Chunk cookies”.

Now I know white chocolate doesn’t taste like much but.. BLRUGGHGHG, ya know?

I’m going to have some yellow flavor fruit drink now.