On a lighter note from yesterday, here are two things that have amused me over the past 24 hours.
Will the Real Diamond Dave Please Stand Up?
Every once in a while after I write something here I'll be contacted by
someone who's related to what I wrote about. I wrote about Wainy Days
and someone from My Damn Channel commented, I wrote about the CBC and
someone affiliated with the station commented, Ottmar Liebert
commented, and so forth. I find this really fun and gratifying, and
I'm always curious who I might hear from next.
You might recall I wrote about Diamond Dave, aka David Lee Roth, last week. I also happened to update my Twitter page with the following:
"Discussing the differences of DLR-era Van Halen vs. the Hagar years via IM with my friend Chris in Ann Arbor."
For those of you not familiar with Twitter, it's a super simple application that lets you send very short updates to your friends telling them what you're doing. The updates can be as mundane as "I just got back from dance class - yay!" and therefore usually not very interesting to people who don't know you.
Which is why I was delighted and amused to get this email notification in my inbox yesterday:
Clearly this is one of my friends or acquaintances having some fun with a fake account, but the Twitter notification still made me smile.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha - Hey!
The other thing that made me laugh was something I ran across while working this morning. Did you know there's such a genre as historical-themed disco?
Dschinghis Khan's Wikipedia entry says the German pop group disbanded in the 80's but "has enjoyed a recent resurgence in popularity on the Internet due to the discovery of a video of them performing their hit song 'Moskau.'" Thanks, Wikipedia, for pointing out that pretty much everyone with an internet connection has already seen this video besides me. Well, I saw the video for the first time this morning, and it totally brightened my day and inspired an impromptu dance party here.
Ha ha ha ha ha - hey!