Coolness – I am posting this by email from my new cell phone. It’s a Sony Ericsson T68i. woohoo.

Dave is a bar of soap that self-replicates and counts your loose change

What’s up with the new look already??? Well, as you may remember I recently lost the domain blogbynight.com. I thought about trying to get it back, and in fact have found out that it wouldn’t really be all that difficult… but have decided against it. I’ve decided to start using another domain that I’ve owned for a while, which I personally prefer: posativ.com – it’s the name of my multimedia and web design company. I think it’s kinda catchy: think.posativ

hope you enjoy the new look – as always, you can bitch about it.

Oh yeah – one more thing: this new site looks friggin’ crazy in Netscape 4.x – if you’re still using that dumb-ass browser then you can suffer. I’m not designing for that piece of crap anymore. The site looks just dandy in Netscape 6.x and Internet Explorer.

It seems I’ve been getting quite a number of people refered to my site via searches for the Nimbus 2000. A quick followup reveals that Amazon has completely removed the entry from their database. I guess they couldn’t keep up with demand.

I’ve also had a few people arriving at my site looking for camel saddles. I’m sorry, I don’t have any. And I really have no idea where to get them. But if you’re interested, I do have an unlikely superhero.

because then I’d draw my new superhero, Jambon Pantalons and his sidekick Petit Poutine!

(the following should be read aloud in a thick french accent…)

Da fry truck is out of cheese curds…

Da Depanneur has run out of Pepsi…

You’re stuck at a red light and you want to turn right…

You’ve only got one 2 Litre bottle of Labbatt 50…

Your half-sister just ate your last Jos Louis!

Your mom just smoked your last Players cigarrette!

Who can you turn to? Where do you go? Who will save you now?

He wears a pant made of ham with a bacon belt… he’s a hundred feet tall and can cross da Ottawa River in a pair of hip-waders. He drives a Zamboni with fuzzy pink dice on da mirror and flourescent under-lights. Rocker-chicks swoon for him, Jean-Guy wants to be him…

He is Jambon Pantalons! The Quebecer’s Superhero!

(And his sidekick, Petit Poutine!)

Today I’m going to introduce a new feature to this weblog: Actual Email Exchanges With John. These are email exchanges that I have with my DJ partner John while at our day jobs. They come close to the types of conversations we have while DJing. Please don’t hold it against us – we realize we’re incredibly juvenile…

This particular one is from sometime in December 2001. We had been talking about ways to make some money at a party we were throwing… then it devolved into this mess:

John: How about running the coat cheque

Dave: good idea. then we could just sell all the coats after and make a pile of cash.

John: and go through them……I’d like one of those rabbit fur hooker coats……for your mom

Dave: She’d like that. I’d be really interested in finding a new pair of gloves. and maybe one of those Michael-Jackson-Zipper-Jackets… for your mom. ’cause she’s bad.

John: sure….you’re dad can come dressed in his “Boy George” costume or as he likes to call it, “Every Saturday Night by the Docks”outfit

Dave: Actually he’s changed his look… these days he wears a sombrero, a ball gown and a beard of bees.

John: He sounds an awful lot like my Dad……Does he also like to bring the St.John’s Ambulance resusitation doll “Annie” around and call her Queen Mum too?

Dave: oi. I’ve never seen him do that, however he has taken a shine to calling himself Queen Mum… Hey so that was your dad I saw down on Rideau St. last night… he looked kinda agitated – he was chasing after a midget who had apparently stole his idea for a human transporter powered by Kielbasa and cheese.

John: No wasn’t him, my dad had his legs blown off in a methane gas explosion.

Dave: smoking in the outhouse?

John: yeah, but he was inside the “dumping area”, just hanging there and someone floated an air bisquit causing his cigarette to blow off his legs. very tragic.

Dave: uh… inside the dumping area? was he collecting footage for his website?

John: no, he just needed some “me time”. Me being him, not me, understand?

Dave: hmm… does he spend a lot of “me time” in the business section of outhouses? I’m wondering if I’ve seen him before… like at camp.

John: Definitely at camp, but he’s usually in a bear suit, gratifying himself to any kids that happen along.

Dave: Hey! I saw him on David Suzuki’s The Nature of Things! I don’t think David thought it was a suit… he also seemed a little excitable about the whole thing…

John: wouldn’t YOU!!! IT’s DAVID SUZUKI!!! WOO-HOO!!!! I’m surprised he didn’t try to maul him.

If you’re looking at this page right now, I guess you either got here by some search result, or you’ve figured out my big screwup: I forgot to renew my domain www.blogbynight.com

actually, that’s not quite right- I forgot to renew it until about six days before it was set to expire. Then I submitted a request to have it transfered to a new registrar. When I sent the request, I was told to wait for an email with instructions to follow to complete the transfer. The email never came and I got busy for six days and the domain didn’t get renewed or transfered.

The email never came because my email server is now running a SPAM filtering service – which has been great for the most part – I went from receiving over 100 junk emails a day to a handful. But it seems the confirmation emails for my domain transfer request were unfortunately generating “false positives” and getting filtered out at the mail server – which I didn’t realize until after the domain had expired.

Now I’m in the process of figuring out how to get my old registrar to release the domain so I can move it to my new registrar… something I don’t think they’ll be too keen on doing, since they can just hang onto it and try to fleece me.

What to do… maybe it’s time for a change of scenery around here anyway… a new name, a new look, a new direction. I dunno. I’ll submit the release request and see. If I can keep the domain, then I’ll do that… otherwise, I suppose I’ll get to work on something else.

In the meantime, I will continue posting here and this site will be available at the horribly complicated url: www.storm.ca/~evad/blog

UPDATE I have another domain pointed at this site now… it should begin working within the next 24 hours. Try www.posativ.com. (posativ is the name of my web and multimedia business – I haven’t gotten around to setting up a website for it yet, so I might as well get some use out of the domain)

I don’t know if this thing is still available, but some time ago Mattel released a Harry Potter Nimbus 2000 Broom. It’s a broom that looks exactly like the one Harry flies around on in the movie. Not exactly remarkable in itself, the broom has a few interesting features: It comes with sound effects, and it vibrates. That’s right, they’ve marketed a vibrating stick for twelve-year-olds to put between their legs. Hilarity ensues.

Here are some comments that appeared in the Customer Reviews section on Amazon.com. (Apparently, Amazon wised up to this and has since deleted the offending reviews, these were clipped earlier this month):

“When my 12 year old daughter asked for this for her birthday, I kind of wondered if she was too old for it, but she seems to LOVE it. Her friends love it too! They play for hours in her bedroom with this great toy. They really seem to like the special effects it offers (the sound effects and vibrating). My oldest daughter (17) really likes it too! I reccomend this for all children.”

“My 12 year old daughter is a big Harry Potter fan, and loved the part with the Nimbus 2000, so I decided to buy her this toy. I was afraid she would think it was too babyish, but she LOVES this toy. Even my daughter’s friends enjoy playing with this fun toy. I was surprised at how long they can just sit in her room and play with this magic broomstick! “

And then The Serial Caller weighed in and gave Mattel a call.

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