Welcome new members!
2006-06-27 by David V
Hello all, After something of a lull following my initial invitations (an impressive 32 of 104 invitations were answered in the affirmative), apparently more people are finding their way to us. So if you've joined the list recently, why don't you take a moment to tell us a little about yourselves? I'll do a short blurb because most of you already know me. I'm David, I'm an electropop recording artist and theremin neophyte. I've been hosting the Internet radio program Spellbound, a brief program of music for theremin, since February of 2005. Anyone who has recorded a theremin is a friend of mine. :-) My real job is IT Instructor at ITT Technical Institute in Arnold, MO, where I teach web development, multimedia, networking, security, and database development courses in our Associate and Bachelor degree programs. And here is a joke that sums up my job perfectly lately: A high-stakes gambler dies and finds himself in Hell. He is greeted by the intake clerk demon, who spells out the process for him. "I'm going to show you three doors, each leading to a place where you can spend eternity suffering. You may choose to stay there, or you may choose to go to the next door, but once you do that, you cannot go back to a previous door. Understand?" "I've got it," says the gambler. "I'm a gambling man and I know a good bet when I see it." "Very well," says the demon. He takes the gambler to the first door and opens it wide. Behind it is a room of infinite size, stretching off to infinity, filled with people standing on their heads on a wooden floor. "That looks boring. I know I can do better than that. Let's go to the next door," says the gambler. The demon leads him to the second door and opens it wide. Behind it is a room of infinite size, stretching off to infinity, filled with people standing on their heads on a concrete floor. "Eesh. That looks even worse," muses the gambler. He thinks to himself for a moment, then straightens himself up and announces, "I'm a gambler to the end. Show me the third door." The demon leads him to the third door and opens it wide. Behind it is a room of infinite size, stretching off to infinity, filled with people standing knee-deep in sewage and drinking coffee. "Well," says the gambler, "it smells bad, and the coffee is probably worse, but at least I'm upright and maybe something interesting will happen." He makes his decision: "I'll pick this door." "Very well," intones the demon. He leads the gambler to his place on the floor, the location where he will spend eternity, and then leaves. The gambler waits and waits. He waits for 10 years. "Hey, where's my coffee?" he shouts. He waits a couple more years, at this point wondering what is going on. I see, he thinks, they're going to taunt me with coffee. It's probably really good coffee, I bet. Just then, a tall, large demon glides in from the far end of the room, climbs a stage, raises his arms, and announces, "FIVE HUNDRED YEAR BREAK IS OVER. BACK TO STANDING ON YOUR HEADS." -- ----- DAVID VESEL -- synthetic music for humans http://davidv.purplenote.com porphyrous@... ----- The Purple Note Radio Network: Escape From Noise, vocal electronica, 10PM Sats http://efn.purplenote.com Spellbound, music for theremin, 11PM Suns http://spellbound.purplenote.com -----