For some reason, in my head the test section of road plays "Let Me Call You Sweetheart"

Back in 1988, when I was a senior in high school, I had an interview for a presidential scholarship at Georgia Tech--it took place one evening at the GTRI Radar Research Station at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida (a much closer drive from Mobile than Atlanta was), along with fellow candidate Nicky (which became Nick in college). They took us in separately, and asked us a set of prepared questions off a page, documenting our answers. Questions like historical figures you admire, achievements, and ideas you have.

When they got around to the ideas you have bit, I mentioned an idea that had occurred to me the past summer when we were driving from Mobile to New York and had to endure long stretches of road that had recently been graded so that it made an irritating whine as the family's Cutlass Supreme passed over it. I thought that it would be fun and less irritating if one could manipulate the nature of grading so that the road would play music as you passed over it.

This was met with a cold stare from the interviewer, and I didn't get the scholarship. Nick got one--I ended up getting a different scholarship which turned me into a mechanical engineer instead of a computer scientist or something--Nick's answer to the idea question had to do with forecasting the weather with 100% accuracy given the ability to model things accurately.

This morning, on slashdot, I got to read this, which leaves me with a combined feeling of vindicated and peeved. I guess I need to get to work patenting my other wild notions.

I hurt myself today...

I know at least one person on my friendslist who wouldn't know about this without my telling them, so I figured it's probably worth it to post it for general consumption.

Nine Inch Noëls is the best thing Lore's done since the last thing he did, and worthy of your attention.

Too many commas in the bio.

I needed to submit a headshot and bio to Chatterbox for their web page. I've always wanted to do one that was actually interesting reading instead of just a list of crap I've done, but was usually hampered by the 50 word limit typical to program bios. Chatterbox, on the other hand, provides limitless space for the little details that make things worth reading. Not that there's a whole lot of reading bios on obscure audio theater websites (which is why I'm posting it here, too), but still.

Fancycwabs first started working in audio by pretending to be a radio announcer and singing songs about the bathroom habits of his immediate family and invented food dishes into a cassette recorder at a very young age. Later, in high school, he created a potentially offensive version of Robinson Crusoe as a project for an exploration of Freudian psychology, in which the famous castaway developed a multiple personality disorder and took on the additional personalities of a deep sea explorer and a bumbling French detective, known as Robinson Cousteau and Robinson Clouseau, respectively.

These formative projects are lost to the ravages of time, or at least he hopes so.

His stage career began while he was a student at Georgia Tech, where, to his deep shame, he was twice winner of the William Shatner acting award. He has appeared in productions in Alabama, Georgia, and all around Memphis, including, recently, Measure for Measure, Guys and Dolls, The Taming of The Shrew, A Few Good Men, and Oliver! where he got the opportunity of a lifetime in strangling his beloved wife, Mrs. Cwabs.

He was once upstaged by a cockroach.