Tuesday morning funnies

Here’s one for you phone people: An elderly lady phoned her telephone company to report that her telephone failed to ring when her friends called – and that on the few occasions when it did ring, her pet dog always moaned right before the phone rang. The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile elderly lady. He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his...

September 27, 2005 · 1 min · 189 words · Matt G

Friday Funnies – The Psychiatric Hotline

Hello. Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline. If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly. If you are co-dependent, ask someone to press 2 for you. If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6. If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be transferred to the mother ship. If you are paranoid-delusional, we know who you are and what you want. Please stay on the line until we can trace the call....

September 9, 2005 · 2 min · 292 words · Matt G

Bob Moog has passed away

Since I’m an avid techno connasieur, I felt it a requirement that I notify my readers of a sad sad day, Bob Moog, who is credited with being the father of what we know as electronic music, by inventing the Moog Synthesizer has Passed Away. Instead of having a moment of silence, please blast some of your favourite synth music in respect for him.

August 22, 2005 · 1 min · 64 words · Matt G

Pictures from my trip to the Gaspesie

Hello Everyone, Some of you may have been wondering why I haven’t been posting lately, well I’ve been on a 7 day trip to the Gaspesie region of Quebec. My girlfriend and I left Ottawa on Friday night at midnight and 15 hours later of straight driving, we arrived at our final destination of Perce around 5pm on Saturday. We toured around the area for the next couple days, seeing the sights, going for a couple hikes, people watching, talking with local artists and of course looking at the famous perce rock....

August 11, 2005 · 3 min · 610 words · Matt G

My Little Howto for Polycom IP500 Ringtones

First I scoured the internet for as many cool ringtones I could think of that my users would get a kick out of and play with on their lunch-hours. Note that I’m not sure of copyright on all of these, so use them at your own risk. Ringtone files must match the following criteria: – Bit Rate 64kbps – Audio Sample Size 8bit – Channels 1 (mono) – Audio Sample Rate 8 kHz...

July 30, 2005 · 2 min · 285 words · Matt G