Raiders of the Lost Blog

Curses! 2 months after I get my 5 gigabyte iPod they come out with the 10 GB model! Must… have… 10 gigs!

So, I’m selling my old iPod to buy a 10 gb one. It’s still in perfect condition and has a month left in its warranty. If you want it, drop by my auction on eBay.

Fantastic news! Looks like they’re finally going to release Better Off Dead on DVD this summer! Yes! I want my two dollars!

So I’m slumbering away last night, when at 2 AM the damn phone rings. I hear the answering machine pickup, it’s a fax. 2:15 AM, the f$cking fax calls again! I’ve had this fax calling me off and on for a few days now, but usually when I’m not home.

It was time to fight back.

First I tried to *69 the call, but no luck. They had the line blocked. Another thing I could have done was to try and hook up a fax modem on a computer to receive the fax, then get the return phone number off the footer. Then I remember that I don’t have a fax modem on me, just my DSL modem & a regular modem w/o fax capabilities.

Next idea… I’ve heard people talk about setting up their answering machines with the disconnected tones. A quick search on Google led me to a web site that had a wave file of the proper tones. So, 2:30 AM I make a new sound file with the proper tones, and then the intro to the M1A1 song from the Gorillaz. I transferred that to the iPod so I could get it close enough to the answering machine’s mike. A couple runs and I’m all set. The fax calls again, and hangs up after hearing my message!!!

I don’t know if the fax will give up or if this is a temporary victory, but it’s a victory all the same!

Man I LOVE what you can get off of eBay.com these days! I just won an auction for the set of 4 Empire Strikes Back glasses from Burger King in 1980! Damn that’s fly! Now I can be serving a drink in a swank Lando glass while basking in the glow of the Billy D Colt 45 sign!

I went to a fantastic show on Wednesday at Irving Plaza. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was putting on a show.

The line to get in was HUGE! Seemed like over 1,000 people. When Charles and I showed up at 7 (ticket said doors open at 7:30) we thought we’d be near the front of the line. We were back around the 500 mark.

We waited outside until around 8:30 when we finally got in the building and past security. Inside the place was packed. There were seats for about 100 people, and everyone else had to cram into every bit of free space available behind that and on a balcony. Charles and I managed to worm our way to an aisle, the first people standing behind the seats. Great for us, sucky for people behind us (I’m 6′5″!).

The show started out with the guitarist from the Conan O’Brien show doing a few tunes. The show started really really late, like 9pm or something. Then Triumph came out and started up with his Underage Bichou song. He brought out a bunch of guests over the evening: Kurt Loder, the guy who played “Big Pussy” on the Sopranos, then some really strange guests. He introduced the annoying kid from those Dell commercials “Dude, you’re gettin’ a Dell!”. After him he brought out Jared from freakin’ Subway! Triumph explained that other than standing and talking Jared had a special talent, he could walk to music! So he made Jared walk around to music for a while.

There were some more standup, more songs, then Triumph showed the bit from TV Funhouse where he was with Robert Goulet. Then he brought out “Gooooolet”, which was Will Farrell from Saturday Night Live dressed up as Goulet. Will sang “Papa Don’t Preach” while impersonating Goulet. Horatio Sans came out as a karate guy later with Will.

It was a pretty fantastic show, a little over 2 hours long. Triumph is always entertaining. Hopefully he’ll do another show sometime, so keep your eyes open.

This was a fine post… FOR ME TO POOP ON!