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Crank Call

Pranksters

Back in March I was in California for a Panel Meeting; I got into the hotel pretty late at night, but still had time to grab dinner before the hotel restaurant closed (thank goodness – I was *starving*).

Being the raving mad Social Media nut I am, I immediately flipped open my iPhone and “checked in” *at* the hotel – before I even actually checked in *with* the hotel (yes, lame… I know).

After dinner, I returned to my room and turned on the TV. I began ironing my clothes for the first day of the meeting the next morning, when suddenly my room phone began to ring – it was a crank call, from someone pretending to be from the front desk of the hotel, reporting that there were complaints of prostitution activity in my room.

Just this week (three months later), I was testing out Spezify (a visual meta-search/information extraction engine) … naturally, I put in my name – first name only, though. One of the results immediately caught my eye: an entry for “keaven.wav” … “what the…?” I thought to myself.

It turns out, the guy who crank called me had been recording the conversation. Once the conversation was over, he uploaded the recording to the interwebz. How awesome is that?!

This recording was made without my knowledge, and without my consent

That being said, I snagged a copy of the recording, and am putting it here for you guys to listen to. I figure, since it’s out there now, it’s always going to be out there… somewhere… so I might as well at least embrace the embarrassment :P

Best I can figure, the person who called me saw my twitter/foursquare update, and decided to have a little fun at my expense. I did a search for the guy’s username on the site where I found this recording, and he has a few more of the same thing – calling people in hotel rooms pretending to be from the front desk. Meh.. whatever.

Without further adieu, here is the recording of the crank call I received in March. Enjoy: 

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Let’s Get Dangerous

Darkwing Duck

Darkwing Duck is my hero. I have many superheros I revere, for one reason or another, but Darkwing Duck holds a special place in my heart. While I may admire the Green Lantern‘s willpower, Superman‘s infinite compassion for humanity,  Batman‘s dedication to justice-by-any-means, and Wonder Woman‘s roundhouse-kick-to-the-face, Darkwing Duck is a character I have always been able to identify with.

When I look at Darkwing Duck, and his genuine attempts at heroism, oft turn slapstick, I see what I would be if I attempted “Hero.”  His whole heart was in it; all of his sincerity and passion was dedicated to vanquishing the evil-doers and saving the innocent. His biggest obstacle was his own mediocrity – an average Joe, with a heart bigger than his deeds were able to match. In his constant struggles to do-the-right-thing at a heroic level, he often failed – and quite spectacularly at times. That, of course, is what made it a great cartoon… but it is also that which caused me to view Darkwing Duck as my cartoon alter ego.

Would I have the courage, the gumption, the get-up-and-go, to put on a mask and attempt to save the average innocent from the average crime, I too would fail to live up in deed to my heart’s expectations; perhaps a real-life unintentionally-comedic hero, bumbling around providing less than what he had hoped. Sometimes I fear this is how I perform in life anyway… full of good intentions, but actions that leave me just shy of the hero my heart feels it should be.

LOLGod

(Ugg.. I can feel the storm clouds gathering already)

Short post… had a funny moment in chat with Jim today and wanted to share. Enjoy.

JIM: i want an appletv but i have a crap tv to begin with
ME: well.. step 1 is to get a better TV :D
ME: OR.. get the appletv, and then that will motivate you to get a new tv ;)
JIM: i can afford only so much electronics in a year :(
JIM: i might see what happens around christmastime
JIM: cuz jesus wants me to celebrate the incarnation through enslaving myself to electronic media
ME: it’s true
ME: isn’t that in Maccabees?
ME: :P
JIM: hahaha
JIM: Maccabees I, II, III, IV, and TV
ME: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

Legend of the Green Dragon

Play RIGHT NOW!!

Many years ago I used to play BBS Doors. If you don’t know what they are, I don’t want to talk to you anymore… i just don’t know how you could get through the 80′s and early 90′s without trolling your local BBS circuit :cool:

There were a few games that I would play obsessively:

  1. TW2002
  2. BRE / SRE (same game.. just one was medieval themed and the other space themed)
  3. LoRD
  4. Rogue (not really a Door, but I got it through a BBS so I list it here :wink: )

Recently I discovered a PHP port of LoRD called Legend of the GREEN Dragon. Fantastic! A whole new time sink for me!! While playing on some random server, I decided I wanted to host my own game. I downloaded the stuff for it and loaded it up.

This is my invitation to all of you to log in, create a character, and see how many Dragon Kills (that’s what DK stands for in the game.. it’s used everywhere and I’m not sure it’s ever really explained to the newbies that well) you can rack up!

Unlike some movies of past cartoons, or going back to rewatch childhood cartoons.. LoGD absolutely lives up to my memory of how much fun I had playing LoRD. So.. come to the Lands of Zadok and play! :mrgreen:

YAY!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

EDIT: It makes me so happy that people have been porting these for use today.. or at least, keeping the old files up to date so they are still playable. They’re not as flashy as games today, but they really do represent an era of game design and game play that set the foundation of mechanics we use today.

Arrrr

Right.. so, as a general rule I really don’t like LOL-Cat pictures. Mostly because I can’t stand the whole “LOL” subculture [roll eyes]. Once in a while, however, a picture will pop up that really does make me laugh. This is one such photo. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have… but don’t expect there to be a flood of such pictures on this site :mad:

Humorous Pictures

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