You know what might be interesting? All of you comic book fans will probably jump on me for this, already knowing five versions of the thing I'm about to say should exist, but here goes:
It might be interesting to learn that Bruce Wayne's father was some kind of vigilante himself. Maybe not in a tights-and-gadgets capacity, but with all the money the Waynes have, he's likely to have funded and overseen some kind of vigilante group. He seems (at least from his short appearance in Batman Begins) to be a forthright kind of guy.
In fact, I'm reminded vaguely of that Batman cartoon that was on for a while, Batman Beyond. That's the one where Bruce Wayne is retired, but some high-schooler takes on the role of the new modern-age Batman, funded by Wayne himself. I think a pre-Batman story might be interesting in this regard....
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Sirius satellite radio is going to offer a podcast channel. Once again, I'm not satisfied with the depth of reporting of news. The main questions that I want answered are these:
How does the station choose which podcasts to play? Is there a regular schedule for regular programs? Is there experimentation with random podcasts? Do they broadcast podcasts using CC licenses without informing the author (which is not required by the license)?
How does this all tie to the web site? For instance, if I publish a podcast, does the podcast channel announce my web address before playing the podcast? I would have to assume that this would cut into the listening audience, since after you found a podcast that you liked, you would listen to it directly rather than the radio station....
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Berta and I were at the toy store this week, looking at, um, toys. We saw this crazy thing that I have to mention.
It's a small orb-like electronic device. On the front is a screen made of small red lights and four buttons. The buttons are labelled Unknown, No, Yes, and Sometimes.
When you turn it on, it starts asking you questions. Usually around 20. You begin by thinking of a thing - anything - and answering the questions as appropriate. The device has an unnervingly high success rate.
Here is an example question list for the animal "Anteater": more
What would be great is an online magazine that is like POV Magazine. I really liked that magazine. It was all the male edge of Maxim, but with actual writing, actual news, and intelligent and beautiful women. POV had deeper articles (not just for bathroom reading) with actual useful information in them. The interviews were actual interviews - they didn't focus on what the women liked in men they dated and how kinky they are. POV lacked the snarky flavor of Maxim - the stupid photo captions, the girls in nurse outfits in the health section, the testicle jokes every other paragraph, etc.
I have some ideas for what my magazine would include. See what you think. more
This is a little skit(?) that we wrote for Assorted Hysteria, the college radio show that my roommate (seen in comments as Gregory) and I produced.
Once again, it's a lot of talking, so you folks that don't like audiobooks (ahem) might want to avoid this one. But it's funny as hell. Well, at least I think so. Hell is pretty funny to me.
I don't remember this thing being so long. It's from a tape that we did at the end of my second semester at UPJ that has a good percentage of the bits that we wrote for the show all rolled onto one tape. The logic in that was that we didn't bother to record many of the earlier shows, so we should just record them all at once.
The cafeteria ladies who were forced to listen to our show (which ran from 7-10 AM every other day) really loved us. Lots. We even won an award for the show. Didn't we get a trophy or something? Didn't frat brothers threaten our lives?
Actually, in the original taped recording (not in this compressed version) you can hear Kristy and Berta laughing in the background at certain points. Especially when Greg says "Whoa!" after I seem to admit enjoying walking around wearing only an apron.
Anyhow...
Download The Wok.
Or listen right here:/AsySound.swf?http://www.asymptomatic.net/audio/The_Wok_final.mp3 more
