Back To Normal

Sadly I checked into the blog today to see if there was any activity and it looks like all of the new readers are now new former readers. Such is life in the fast-paced world of Internet weblogging. I'll have to go back to bugging my wife to read the blog and paying out 25 cents a week to Uvulapie--enough clams for him to get into his time machine and travel back to 1997 to watch new episodes of Touched By An Angel and purchase a can of corn at Aldis.

Ending Friendships With One Click

Thanks to the Internet, you can now end those annoying friendships with the simple click of a mouse button. I learned that today while toying with my last.fm software. In case you don't know what that is, it's a handy tool that finds new (or old) music you might like based on what you listen to. I'm sure they collect info on me and use it to send me nifty ads online but I honestly don't care. I can use this to see what other people listen to as well and establish "friendships" with these folks online. One of these "friendships" is with uvulapie of Uvulapie And His Amazing Hillbillies. While we have an online friendship, we're actually real friends (well, ever since my attorneys forced him to lift the restraining order). We met in high school over twenty years ago and still stay in touch today.

So, as I was messing around with my last.fm software today I thought I'd take at look at uvulapie's profile:

One day I discovered that I had ears. My life has never been the same since. 260 area code, still nostalgic for 219.

I was also able to see what kind of music he was listening to:

• A Camp
• The Beachboys
• Galactic Cowboys
• 2 Foot Yard
• The Caridgans
• Bryan Scary
• Mr. Gnome
• Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

He certainly has eclectic music tastes, much like myself--that's one of the reasons we've maintained our "friendship" even though we live nearly three hours away from one another.

But then I remembered that one time he glared arrogantly at a bowl of potato salad that I was eating back in 1989 and I decided that I'd had enough. I wanted to end this friendship and I wanted to end it immediately. But how could I do it? Could technology help me? The answer is...


YES! Thanks last.fm for making friendship annulment so easy.

That will teach him!!!!!

P.S. If you're a music geek like me (and uvulapie who is still my friend) you can see what I'm listening to via my last.fm thingy on my blog. It's on the right hand column somewhere (above the cheese news headlines). You'll also learn about "scrobbling".