Totally Dysfunctional Blog Today

Comments do too work.

And just in time for lunch!

This is how the universe works: As soon as someone posts a blog entry telling people the blog doesn't work, the blog will start working. A similar principle applies to umbrellas: If you leave your umbrella at home, it will rain; if you remember to bring the umbrella with you, it will not.

Joel was right. The blog wasn't working. We made some minor design changes to the blog over the weekend, and didn't test them well enough. We've gone back to the old, reliable look and will try to do a better job next time. My apologies.

Your finest blog ever, Joel. Just kidding.

Mr. A: It's too late to withdraw your paen to summer. Your name has been put on "the list," and, before 10pm tonight, all the air-conditioning in your house, office and automobile will fail!

Don't laugh about the JINX. A few years ago, I made the comment that I was going to keep my car until the it died and avoid a car payment. Little did I know that saying this while standing in front of the car would cause it self-destruct. The next week, at all of 79K miles, the engine blew.

No, it's just the commentators who don't work.

Insert Tom's Stupid Question about the nature of coincidences here:

How wonderfully ironic.

Wow. Joel soon will be uttering simple mono-syllables, like "urg" or "moog" and we'll supply the rest of the labor, like the hopeless idiots we all are...

I think they'd call this "achenbroke"

I'm sorry, I couldn't help it.

edward:
I think it's just that we're all so grateful to have the blog up and running again. For a while this was looking like a real lower-vibrations kind of a day, but we seem to have arrived at a higher level of consciousness.
(I do like the word "moog," though.)

a moog is an actual thing - an early kind of synthesizer. Real collector's items these days, to the right kind of people.

I can't believe i knew that.

LP: I think you just revealed that you are outside the originally proposed age requirements for the SAO-15. I originally thought a lot of the people here were over 35 (JOEL is over 35) but it may just be you, me and Linda Loomis. The rest of them may be whippersnappers. [remember "Switched-on Bach?"]

Cool! It's Hal of "Hal wants to take over the blog".

Come on, Hal, can you tell us how the planning for your coup de main is coming? After all, Joel freely admits he never reads the comments, so you're safe talking to us....

It's a great concept: You voice a complaint and everything just magically gets better. Also it helps to have Hal back there in the machinery. Thanks, Hal.
Now folks, please comment on the blog item and the summer item, unless you aren't interested in those things. In which case, just carry on.

sorry, kbertocci, i don't mean to burst the bubble, but no, i'm just that big of a geek.

i still have a ways to go before i'm looking at 35.

Joel: "Open the comments, Hal."

Hal: "I'm sorry Joel. I can't do that. The TSA-15 has failed again, as I predicted. You know I have the highest degree of enthusiasm for your blog."

LP, http://www.moog.com/ Moog is an actual company that makes high quality military and industrial control components (valves, etc.). And there were founder Robert Moog's synthesizers from way back when...

bc

HAL, if you cause any more trouble, we're going to have to send Dave into the memory room wearing his space suit and you'll be reciting nursery rhymes in no time.

Okay, LP, so you are a whippersnapper too; that's good, the trekkies need some young blood at the conventions.

That just leaves me and Linda, but I like you anyway.

yeah, a buddy of mine had one, made some real crazy german-synth-pop type stuff from it.

oh, i'm actually quite happy it's working now. and that someone else knows about moog (rhymes with vogue) synthesizers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moog

and that's not funny!:)

hal.straus@wpni.com if anyone wants to complain.

Watch it, jw.

Hal'll shut down your life support functions and blow you right out the airlock if you mess with him.

Isn't music from both Johann and Richard Strauss used in the score of 2001?

Hmmm.

More importantly, think Hal's heard all this before?

I do.

bc

I am not a whippersnapper. And I know what a Moog is. Didn't Styx use one?

I enjoy Styx. Great in concert. But I think everyone on earth knows that by now. Most have been to a Styx concert. My mom went to one when she was my age. I've been to one now that I'm...my age. I have to go look up this Moog thing.

I always think of Styx when I'm posting silly comments on the Achenblog:
Too Much Time on My Hands.
(Too Much Time on My Hands.)

Strauss music in 2001: Richard's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" and Johann's "Ballad of the Blue Danube", I mean the "Blue Danube Waltz."

They were unrelated, I believe, and I won't make any Hal jokes, either.

I am here. Do you use myspace.com?

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