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Dear Mysterious Cults...

To whom it may concern:

If you happen to be a member of one of the many cults that meet above the convenience store on State Street in New London that get together every other night so that the members can raise their arms and launch "hallelujahs" to heaven, take my advice: Go home tonight and pray. Pray quietly. Pray silently to yourselves that your lord is a merciful one, because if He's half as annoyed as I am with the constant onslaught of the booming major-scale, emotionally pastel-colored vocal torture that you call "singing," then you're in for one hell of a smiting. Entire cities have been turned to dust for crimes far less offensive than the guttural abuse of the vocal chords at high volume in which you engage night after night.

You also might look into propositioning the government for a nice weapons contract, as you seem to have found exactly the right combination of pitch, texture, and volume of audio to produce non-trivial pain and mental anguish in innocent bystanders.

What you've managed to do, as a matter of fact, is project your screeching appeals to God on the rest of the town like a long-range auditory halitosis that stinks up the immediate vicinity, killing small animals, and stunning larger ones. You could at least warn the rest of us before you decide to crank up the Pain Machine so that we can hide children and the elderly away in cellars until your epic firestorm of pure musical shit has burned through another quiet night and left behind a smoldering mountain of rubble.

Oh, and happy mother's day, everybody.


After Blog Mint [?] :

.NET Rocks now has an RSS feed. Carl and I have also discussed doing live show notifications, so keep your eyes peeled, my friends...

Published Monday, May 10, 2004 1:05 AM by Rory

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rick said:

AMEN!
May 10, 2004 3:47 AM
 

Dominic Cronin said:

I just read that as: ".NET Rocks now has an RSS friend". !

Of course, by the time my Monday morning eyes had backed up and re-read it, normality was restored, but for a moment there my subconscious started chewing on "WTF is an RSS friend?"

It has to be something bigger than just someone on your blogroll or in your "My homies" section.
May 10, 2004 6:28 AM
 

Rory said:

Dominic C -

"I just read that as: '.NET Rocks now has an RSS friend'. !"

No, no, no!

.NET Rocks now has an RSS *fiend* - a *fiend*, my friend.

He creeps around in the basement and covets the angle brackets...
May 10, 2004 3:16 PM
 

TomB said:

Rory, Rory, Rory. This is not right. This definitely required a comic. Something similar to your neighbour's dog in Portland.

And don't forget to draw a comic of the RSS fiend.
May 10, 2004 4:26 PM
 

Nancy said:

I'm not a developer--just a little ol' school teacher. But, I follow your blog because it's interesting and you crack me up! TomB's right--this calls for a cartoon. Oh, and Happy Mother's Day to your mom and your techie grandmother!
May 10, 2004 6:28 PM
 

A Cult Member said:

As he was now approaching the path down from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the deeds of power that they had seen, (38) saying, "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heaven!" (39) Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, order your disciples to stop." (40) He answered, "I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out." - Luke 19:37-40

So, either put up with their screeching or the rocks are gonna start it up. You choose.



May 10, 2004 6:32 PM
 

Rory said:

Nancy -

"I'm not a developer--just a little ol' school teacher. But, I follow your blog because it's interesting and you crack me up!"

Wow :)

What do you teach?
May 10, 2004 6:48 PM
 

Rory said:

Cult Person -

"So, either put up with their screeching or the rocks are gonna start it up. You choose."

Do you mean that God is going to throw rocks at those people?

Because I'm OK with that.

Or do you mean that rocks had speaking parts in the Bible ("the stones would shout out")? 'Cause I'm OK with that, too.

Anyway, what in the hell kind of mean-spirited bastard god would stone people because they decided to respect the city sound ordinances?
May 10, 2004 6:51 PM
 

Jason Olson said:

If anyone is going to be smited, it is the RSS fiend. Remember the 10th Commandment my friends, "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Angle Brackets" or something along those lines.
May 10, 2004 7:41 PM
 

Nancy said:

Hi Rory:
I'm an elementary school teacher and I'm also a technology grant receipient so I've done lots of work with integrating technology in the classroom. I wrote and taught our school district's first blogging class--"Weblogs: The Reading Writing Connection." I came across your blog this summer as I was searching for tablet pc blogs--and in particular any blogs that included tablet created sketches (your cartoons drew me in--er, no pun intended.) I had the use of two tablet pc's--for about 2 months each. Sadly, I had to return both and miss them terribly. I really really want to use tablet pc's with students because I think the fact that students wouldn't have to learn keyboarding in order to write and the fact that students could sketch to show understanding is an awesome boon to computers in the classroom (not to mention annotating directing on digital pictures of experiments.) I'm dying to try out Julia's BLink or WebCamNotes with students--write/draw/post on a blog as is. But alas, no one in my district understands this--I just get strange looks and lots of tilting of heads from side to side when I talk about my ideas for tablet pc blogging with students. So, I'm tablet-less but still hoping!
May 11, 2004 4:37 AM
 

TrackBack said:

RSS Feeds, Multimedia,
May 10, 2004 2:59 PM
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