Kibblez? Fo shizzle, rap dawg !!
He’s baaad to da bone, but he don’t pee in da house, yo !!
(Well, not lately…)
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Stephen Colbert’s “Wag Of The Finger” to Apple
Stephen Colbert’s “Wag Of The Finger” to Apple
[ You Tube movie ]
New Guinea Singing Dog
New Guinea Singing Dog
This photo now appears on Wikipedia, at their request !! How cool is that !!
Elf
My Elfamorphosis from www.elfyourself.com.
Full motion video here
Customer Service
This morning the gas company arrived outside our home to install a gas line. Guys with shovels and heavy machinery went to work, and once they started, sleeping in was out of the question, so I went to work too, in the basement.
An hour or so later, as they were digging the trench running from the house to the road, the cable went off. High-speed Internet down to no-speed, the Weather Network simplified to pure white snow.
When asked, the guy from the gas company, who may at one time have been a member of ZZ Top, indicated that Rogers Cable had not “located” the line. I suggested that nevertheless THEY had certainly done that. Turns out, what he meant was that while the hydro and phone companies had come in advance and marked the location of their respective lines with colorful little flags, the cable company… not so much.
Rogers Cable, in contrast, paraphrasing the guy from ZZ Top, said “Go ahead dig, if you break a line I’m sure we’ll get a call…”. I guess they figure it’s cheaper to be reactive than proactive, and after all, it’s only cable, it’s not like anybody needs it or anything.
On the plus side, when they DID get the call, it took not much longer to send a technician out than it took me to navigate the Rogers voice recognition support phone system (turns out “the gas company chopped our cable in half” is not a phrase it recognizes).
The Rogers tech was as efficient as he was prompt, and we were back on the air in no time. But’s what’s with their corporate policy of not “locating” lines. “Call before you dig” becomes “call us if you hit something”? Can’t they afford the little flags?
All Moved In
Please click here to view a series of photos showcasing our lovely new home.
Silver and Bell
Silver enjoys contact while sleeping. Bell appears not to mind.
Spam is back
[from this article in NYTimes — login required]
Spam is back … Worldwide spam volumes have doubled from last year … unsolicited junk mail now accounts for more than 9 of every 10 e-mail messages … Spammers [succeed] by conscripting vast networks of computers belonging to users who unknowingly downloaded viruses and other rogue programs. The infected computers begin sending out spam without the knowledge of their owners … 250,000 new computers are captured and added to these spam “botnets” each day.
(Hysterical but not unreasonable emphasis mine)
Van Der Graaf Generator – Undercover Man
From the historical Van Der Graaf Generator reunion concert from May 6th, 2005, Royal Festival Hall, UK. It was edited from 7 different video sources, all shot from the audience.
Peter Hammill – This Side of the Looking Glass – Live 1981
Peter Hammill – This Side of the Looking Glass – Live with Orchestra 1981