Flashcube.org

Since I had mentioned to some friends over dinner about the Hamdog I thought it only appropriate that I post a link.

Momus had described this site as the “YouTube of Super 8 home movies”. That’s a fair assessment I suppose. Although there is something slightly eerie about watching some movies from decades ago without any sound.





Also, Basketball this Saturday. Contact me for more details.

Hooray for Time magazine for posting this nice photo collection of actors in character.

Also, new podcast recorded tomorrow. You can look forward to: less music, less suck, and more funny.

I’d laugh at this video more but I’ve actually eaten one of my cat’s Pounce treats on a dare.

A week ago today, Dose magazine ceased publication. It’s still lives on in its online form but the nice little daily will no longer be around. The official reason according to parent company CanWest is lack of advertisers. Okay, fine I understand that it all boils down to $$$$ but in Calgary other than the two daily newspapers that leaves us Fast Forward and the monthly Beat Route. Both are good in their own right but when I was commuting to work at 6 in the morning during the past winter I didn’t want anything that used too much of my grey matter and Dose filled that niche quite nicely.

Sextris. It’s kind of like Tetris but instead of Russian dancers you have smut. Now if they had dancing smut perhaps I wouldn’t have gotten bored after level 3.

I still still up to what I’m good at: sucking. Luckily, I bug Joel and he tells me the story of how he found a bike in the garbage and rode it hungover to work. Mission Bugs update and more bullshit. The sound quality is now marginally better than shit. Suffice to say, a small improvement. Songs are played, cut off and spoken over. Good times. iTunes nows works. Clickity-click

The lady and I are currently in the midst of watching all 7 seasons of Buffy. We just finished the big downer that is season 5 and are starting season 6. The funny thing is that I pay for cable TV despite the fact that the only TV we watch is Buffy. I suppose after that it’s the 5 seasons of Angel but with them currently retailing at 75.00 a season it won’t be happening any time soon. Plus none of the torrent sites seem to have the complete set.

Anyways, to make a long story even longer I’ve found this pretty interesting Buffy fan site featuring all types of trivia and what not. If you’ve ever wanted to know what band played in what episode or about this demon or that then it’s the place to go. One question that I’ve pondered pretty much from the first episode onward is why does a place like the Bronze continually serve alcohol to people clearly under age. From my understanding the legal drinking age in the states in 21. Those opaque plastic cups didn’t fool me.

Sex tutorials by Amy. Maybe I should reword that. Written sex tutorials by Amy. Ladies: If you ever wanted to know to light you lover’s fire and “take the long way home” so to speak then this site is for you. It’s sex advice from a women-centric point-of-view. Guys: if you are so lost you don’t even know where to start then click here.

After last weeks disaster at trying to get four people together via Skype to podcast, I’ve decided to go it alone….for now at least. I recorded the first episode of the (tentatively) titled Flashcube.org Podcast.

A few things first: I’m no Rick Dees so don’t a polished personality. Secondly, the audio quality will mostly suck because I’m recording it off an iSight mic which I never turn off even while the music is playing. Normally that would be fine but for some reason or another across the street is a nightly congregation of motorbikes which someone once described as Shell’s Angels.

The whole podcast thing was made super easy by doing it through LibSyn. They take care of all the hard shit and I pay them $5.00 per month. Sounds like a deal to me.

How to subscribe: It will take a bit before I show up in iTunes so in the meantime you can do paste the RSS address into iTunes. The address is http://flashcube.libsyn.com/rss. Under iTunes go to the “Advanced” menu then “Subscribe to Podcast” and paste away. Better yet, just click here.

I know it sucks but you can help. Let me know if my levels are off (they are) or if I need more stories about robots (duh!). Better yet, be a guest because I need to hear another voice in my ears
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If you spend as much time as I do hacking HTML and CSS as I do, then you can appreciate Yahoo’s contribution to web development. Whether you need CSS page grids or menu controls, they’ve got you sorted. It’s all available as a free download from Sourceforge. By the way, if anyone knows how to make a nested DIV vertically expand its parent, let me know. It’s been a bug in my ass for the last few days.

Andy Warhol’s diary has been posted as blog entries 29 years later. How fitting.

I love when people send me links of stuff that I might actually like. This one was sent to me this morning and features several 60’s French language videos and performances. Most interesting to me is the debut performance by France Gall singing “Poupee Du Cire, Poupee Du Son” at the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest. It pretty much launched her career so it was nice to see her both sing and then accept the award while flanked by the songs writer Serge Gainsbourg.

Not for me, dumbass. I’m flying out to Victoria this weekend for a friends wedding. It’s fun being a wedding guest. Of the last two weddings I went to, one is ending up in divorce. Whoops. I have a feeling that this one will turn out though. But that’s a feeling that’s based on that I haven’t met the groom yet. I expect nothing but the best and failing that I can retire to my hotel room and sample the best in television that Victoria has to offer.

Whether or not Pony Play is part of your repertoire is besides the point. The real issue here is why the fuck wasn’t I invited to this party.

Okay, so I haven’t really posted much over the last week or so. I will provide an explanation though. I’ve been distracted by two things: 7 season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer on DVD and playing dumb video games on my computer. The game in question is Postal 2 which to call morally lacking would be an understatement. It bad enough when you blow up things and people without remorse. It’s another thing to do so in cheat mode where nothing can hurt you. Thankfully, I have a short attention span to those type of things and even more thankfully I am able to differentiate between a game and reality and won’t be going all Columbine any time soon. Besides I just started season 4 of Buffy and things are starting to get really good.

Wank for peace and harmony and pleasure as well. If you don’t feel like that, I suppose there’s always Jump Rope for Heart which I did a few times in elementary school. Jumping rope, that is as I’ve never ever touched myself.

The Phillips Bodygroom shaves everywhere. I mean, everywhere.

Do you bugs? Do you like basketball? Well, I don’t like bugs but I do like basketball despite the fact I’m super-crappy at it so lets make a compromise and shoot some hoops. If you live in the Mission area in Calgary let me know so you can join the Mission Bugs neighbourhood basketball team. You bring the ball, I’ll bring the suck. Let me know if you’re interested in the comments.

I’ve never been to an orgy nor have I hosted very many parties. According to this article hosting an orgy looks a lot less fun than one would think. In fact, it looks like a logistical nightmare. You have to consider inviting the right mix of people that would get along, provide refreshments and contraceptives and let’s not forget about cleaning up the day after. Is it really worth it? I mean, attending one might be a blast. Well except for the possible STDs but other than that fun city.