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It’s true.  I discovered the sad, ugly truth this weekend.  The Maggot has been playing games behind my back… with several of my closest friends.  And all of it has been cloaked under a veil of secrecy, designed to keep me in the dark.

This is the man at the epicenter of it all: Clax Vandle (not his real name - more on that in a minute…)

I USED to consider him one of my best friends.  You see, I was under the impression that Clax hated and despised Facebook and had decided to never join.  However, due to several factors (including alcohol), it came to my attention this weekend that he is indeed on Facebook using the pseudonym of ‘Clax Vandle’ in place of his real name (which will now remain anonymous).

THEN I found out that he has been ‘friends’ with my wife on Facebook for almost a month… as ‘Clax.’

And THEN I found out that the two of them have been playing Scrabulous games online since he joined!!!  (AND my wife only invited me to play Scrabulous last week!!!)  THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!

And THEN I discovered that my wife has been playing Scrabulous with several of my other friends, none of whom have ever invited ME to play Scrabulous.  THIS IS A DOUBLE OUTRAGE!

You think you know someone and then they stab you in the heart with a virtual scrabble tile.  My wife is a Facebook floozie.  A two-timing social networking tart.

And I am a cuckold.  A Scrabulous-ed, Facebooked, friendless cuckold.

Posted under Family, Humour, Rant, Web/Tech

Just back from Winnipeg, where CBC Radio’s Arts & Entertainment staff were holding two days of talking about the web, where the future of radio is, and how ‘radio’ shows are rapidly becoming just ’shows’ that are on the radio, on podcasts, with blogs, and occasionally with video.
The most entertaining part was the time spent with the group actually trying stuff out and playing around.  The group was split in two and each team was challenged to use 3-5 web tools to make content about the fact that CBC types were in Winnipeg trying to figure out the future.

Here are two videos that the teams came up with:

In my opinion, pretty awesome stuff for a few hours work!

Posted under Web/Tech

For those who haven’t heard about it, "2 Girls, 1 Cup" is the latest internet video sensation.  There are loads of videos with millions of views on YouTube featuring people watching a horrifically graphic video involving 2 women, 1 cup, and bodily fluids.  The funny thing, most people have probably never seen the ACTUAL video - the phenomenon and entertainment factor is in witnessing the reactions of others watching it.  People screaming, dry-heaving, running away - they are genuine reactions of disgust, shock, and amazement.  Here’s a compilation sampler:

WELL, Jordan at CBC Radio 3 has created a tribute called "2 Girls, 1 Bed" based on a new ‘controversial’ video from beloved Canadian singer-songwriter, Hayden.  There are reactions and the ACTUAL video!!! Check it out…

Posted under Blogs, Humour, Music, Web/Tech

As part of the content management system on this blog, I can see where people are coming from when they visit here.  It’s REALLY weird and occassionally disturbing.  I suspected this would be visitied only by family and friends, but a couple of posts are visited pretty much every single day and it’s because they rank high in Google and Yahoo search for specific searches.  This picture of Cedar is visited often by people searching for “no pants”…

However, NOTHING is visited more than this photo, which brings people from all over the world searching for “plumber butt” and “butt crack”.

I’m sure there’s a lesson in increasing web traffic in here somewhere.  Stay tuned for future posts “Bigger, Better Plumber Butt” and “Giant Butt Crack”  on my new blog “Photos of My Children’s Asses”…

Posted under Web/Tech

My parents just got a Mac laptop with a webcam built into the monitor.  It has a piece of software called Photobooth that lets you snap pics and, as an added perk, distort the hell out of them for fun.  After we had a couple of drinks, we tried it out and came up with these…  I’m sure they’ll end up as a powerful bribery tool someday.

Posted under Web/Tech

We just launched a new version of the CBC Radio 3 music player yesterday and it’s pretty frickin’ cool.  You can create a user account and then completely personalize your listening experience.  You can create your own playlist and then add all your favourite tracks from the site.  And THEN, you can email your playlist (or individual tracks) around to others… or post your playslist on your blog

It’s pretty neat, because you can add tracks
from any of the concerts or sessions on the site, from any of the existing Radio 3 playlists, or from any track playing on the streaming radio station.  Soon, all of the 38,000 tracks from New Music Canada will be available to add to playlists, too.  Try it out and let me know what you think!

Posted under Music, Web/Tech