‘Showcase, Dank Showcase’
I was logging in to moderate comments this afternoon and accidentally clicked on the link to Dave Johnson’s blog in my blogroll where I found that sometime in the past year — much to my amazement — he had actually published a page of old audio clips from the “Peak Computing Hour,” a call-in radio show that he and I did ten or so years ago in Colorado. I hadn’t heard the clips in a quite a while and it was a fun little trip. (He was smart enough to keep the clips rather limited.)
We did have fun on that show, despite the fact that — to this day — Dave suspects that I “never really liked” him. Well…I’ll leave the answer to that question to your imagination.
Let’s just say the pay was good.
(Oh, and gas was only like 8 cents a gallon at the time, so I was more than happy to commute up to Denver from Colorado Springs for a two-hour radio show once a week. In a Jeep Cherokee. Can you imagine?)
Dave focuses on old clips of “Dank Showcase, Cyberspy” because, well, he wrote them. (So, BIG surprise there.)
Truth told, though, Dank Showcase was the best part of the show…that single experience has caused me to occasionally yearn to do a little “real” radio theatre at some point in my life. The fact that no one would listen it — just as they did then — is somewhat beside the point.
But he captured the high points — the megadingos, the callers, the silly stuff we would do. Almost makes me want to do it again.
Hmmm.
Whatdaya say, Dave? We could use uStream or similar to put together a show like TuesdayNightTech, but not so…juvenile. Heck…using Skype or something we could take callers. (Do you still know anything about computers? I might have to brush up a bit on PCs. Yuck.)
Maybe you could get us a sponsor from up there in the techie Northwest? If we got enough of a following, we could write books together again. Maybe they’d even put us on ZDNet. TechTV. TechTV G4. PBS!
Dave?
No?
You never liked me, did you, Dave?
Disk Doctors Re-animated
A guy named Ryan, who describes himself as a fan of the KnowledgeTV show Disk Doctors (of which I was co-host) wrote today to let me know that he’d uploaded some old episodes to YouTube. This is awesome! I haven’t seen the show in years. (Yes, I’ve got a few tapes on my shelves, but it’s not like I bust them out often.) It’s funny to (a.) see how little gray hair I had (b.) listen to the computing topics of 1997-2000. Wow. Ancient stuff. And the running gag about me being a Mac guy even when the Mac was “dead.” Har de har.
Thanks, Ryan. Now that I no longer get recognized in airports (actually, I don’t know that I was ever recognized in an airport if I wasn’t standing next to Steven Sashen, who was recognized all the time) it’s nice to know those episodes will have a second life toiling in obscurity on YouTube. 
True Entrepreneur
What’s the Pimp House? Somebody took a boring 4/2 rancher near Vegas and turned it into the Vegas Pimp House by painting it in bright colors and putting a pool table in the living room and a big screen TV in the “media room.” (Don’t know if a true pimp would be watching Scooby-Doo, but I’m sure stranger things have happened.) Price: $400 a night for weekends. Sweet. Gotta love that entrepreneurial vision. My only question — what self-respecting pimp has boring Sear-lookin’ white appliances? Where the sub-zero?
PeopleTank Restaurant?
I don’t know. Looks great, but I’m getting a little nervous just looking at the pictures. 
I’m not too extreme about my phobias, but this place might set off my fear-of-an-underwater-
restaurant-imploding-in-on-itself (aquariphobia, I assume). Plus, I doubt their vegetarian fare would be worth it. Cool photos, though.
World’s First All Glass Undersea Restaurant
Apple Takes Oscar
I watched the Oscars last night and enjoyed them more than I would have expected. One little item I noticed was how a particular commercial caught my eye well before I actually realized what it was for. I imagine if you were watching, and you’re an Apple fan, you noticed it too: Apple - iPhone - Hello. Once again, Apple impresses on the “cool” scale. Compare it to the “Wow” campaign from Microsoft, which left me saying something more like, “Huh?”
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