This...IS...a...prereCORDed...robot...VOICE...telling...you...you're...aBOUT...to...die.

It doesn't matter what radio station you listen to, you have either experienced or will soon experience an application of Murphy's Law peculiar to radio.  I am of course referring to the test of the emergency broadcast system right when your favorite song comes on or right when the news story or interview or debate reaches its most interesting point.  If that weren't bad enough, they precede the automated message with this horrible screech/buzz at full volume for the sole purpose of freaking out unsuspecting motorists and laughing as they swerve all over the road.  If you listen to NPR like I do, the effect is at least 4.2 times as bad because the music is calm and classical and the newscasters are, in the words of Strong Bad, "smooth 'n' smarmy."

If they must test these systems, why can't they make the tests interesting?  Like this:

Stupidity, Will Robinson, stupidity!

Until we get enough votes to pass the Bill Engvall amendment (requiring all stupid people to wear signs identifying them as such), we will have to content ourselves with technological fixes such as the following sample PSA wav:

Computers don't make errors; what they do, they do on purpose.

I hate Windows Vista.  Having recently acquired a new computer with that particular operating system on it, I can say that I'd rather go back to Windows ME than deal with some of the new "improvements."  The computer crashed the first time I turned it on!  The wav below is my attempt to vent my frustration with Microsoft while continuing the in PSA/warning theme that began with the last entry.

Bean, beans, the musical fruit...

Juvenile?  Yes.  Disgusting?  Definitely.  Over-the-top?  Absolutely.  Funny?  You betcha!

Here, in most of its glory, is a wav of a fake Public Service Announcement regarding one more reason to celerate during the month of July.

Oh! The big blue wet thing!!!

There is so much that could be said about Muppet Treasure Island.  What is there not to like about a film that combines pirates, the entire cast of Muppets, a singing Tim Curry, and a soundtrack by Hans Zimmer?  My one complaint about the movie is that the soundtrack is so hard to find and is always incredibly expensive when you do find it, because it is out of production.  To remedy this situation, here are some mp3s of some of the better songs which I pulled right off the movie.