I’ve enjoyed too much of what Whedon’s done for television.  I sat my girlfriend down to watch his latest exploratory project.  Now, I am almost embarressed to admit that I enjoyed watching Doogie Howser when I was young, but I did.  I wasn’t dedicated to watching all the episodes, or catching up on those I missed, but it was “good clean fun,” as they say.  Nor have I really followed NPH‘s career, and reading his wikipedia entry was an eye opener (I didn’t realize he’d actually gone to Broadway or received so many Emmy nominations.)

Anyway, Dr Horrible is an excellent role for NPH, and I found Nathan Fillion’s portray of the self absorbed ‘superhero’ to be inspired (and quite out of character from what I’d come to expect from watching him in Firefly/Serenity).

You can head over to the fan website, and you can buy the soundtrack on iTunes (assuming that everything goes well between when I schedule this post and when you actually see it.)

Meanwhile, MTV has some choice quotes from Joss Whedon on the subject of Dr. Horrible.

 

John Williams has a codename, but I will never reveal it.

 

I enjoy Team Fortress 2, but what would the Red Team do if they got fired?  Hilarious!

 

It’s funny to think that I was hired on April 1 for my current job.  I keep seeing “congrats on X” anniversary emails go out, and I can only imagine what my 1  year anniversary email will look like.

“Congratulations on your 1 year anniversary, April Fools!”

 

“Hello, is this <insert name here>?”

“May I ask who’s calling?”

“My name is <insert another name here> and I’m calling from <insert organization name here> and I need to advise you that this call may be monitored for quality and training purposes.”

“What if I don’t want that?”

“What?”

“What if I don’t want you to record me?”

“I’m sorry, one moment.”  Puts me on hold, then comes back.  “I need to advise you that this call is being monitored for quality and training pur—.”

“Yes, but what if I don’t want you to record me?”

“Then we can’t continue, thank you for your past patronage, have a nice day.”

Such a nicer way of dealing with the marketers.

 

And this time, some humor:

 A Day Off

So, you want to take a day off.  Let’s take a look at what you are asking for.  There are 365 days per year available for work.  There are 52 weeks per year in which you already have two days off per week, leaving 261 days available for work.  Since you spend 16 hours each day away from work, you have used up 170 days, leaving only 91 days available.  You spend 30 minutes each day on coffee break, that accounts for 23 days each year, leaving only 68 days a vailable.  With a one hour lunch period each day, you have used up another 48 days available for work.  You normally spend 2 days per year on sick leave, this leaves you only 20 days available for work.  We are off for 5 holidays per year, so you’re available working time is down to 15 days.  We generously give you 14 days vacation per year which leaves only 1 day available for work and I’ll be damned if you’re going to take that day off!!!

Obviously the math leaves something to be desired, but it’s funny nonetheless.

There are five levels of drinking:

Level 1, You get up to leave and your friend buys the next round of beers, and you think to yourself, “if I get 7 hours sleep, I’ll be ok.”

Level 2, You’re arguing against Astroturf, and when you get up to go, the little devil on your shoulder says, “you’re out with your friends, as long as you get 5 hours sleep, you’ll be cool.”

Level 3, You’ve progressed to tequila, you’re arguing for Astroturf, the little devil is the bartender and you’re thinking to yourself, “our waitress is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met.”

Level 4, You’re last drink was rum and coke, you’ve finally decided to leave after getting thrown out, and your friend says, “I know this after-hours bar.”

Level 5, You finally crawl out into the sunlight and you say to yourself — come on, everyone say it with me — “I will never do this ever again, I swear… and this time I mean it.”

 

Procedurally Enforcing Workflow

 

Priceless

Deserves a trackback, if you get it.

 

Weebl has a new toon involving the Weighted Companion Cube from VALVe‘s Portal, released as part of the Orange Box.  The Weighted Companion Cube has become something of an internet phenomena since it’s introduction in Portal.

Check out this cute flash toon.  Thanks to Kotaktu for finding this little gem.

The great thing about rediscovery of the Weebl site is finding that Magical Trevor retains it’s rightful place as the most frequently watched flash cartoon (over 7000 unique page views daily).

 

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6796779&posted=1#post6796779

“First Valve update that has sporked my installation. Bad Valve, no gibs.” – Malanthazon

 

Vista Sucks!

I actually have it installed and there are some nice feature “ideas.” Not always sure about the execution of those ideas, and the number of programs that are not backward compatible is staggering. Not exactly a “bold step forward” for microsoft, and it seems to be giving them some backlash in the market place.

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