Now and then I am delighted by the beautiful world I have created. I, Dotty Parker, have made my world rich with possibility.
Sometimes those possibilities morph into beautiful, magical email.
Many moons ago I wrote about Tom Churchill, the guy who reads the weather for the NPR station here. Here's the link to what I'd written.
And then BellyRub wrote a reply which indicated that one of the running jokes that he and I have (about Uncle Computer Brain and his family) was fully in force in my entry.
What did I receive today in my inbox? An email from Tom Churchill!
A computer? :: click :: :: whirrrr :: That's only partly true. LOL. Happened to run across this doing some web site work. Yes, this is 'the' Tom Churchill of whom you speak. I am real. The systems to which you are listening were an invention of mine from 1989. I have been on radio and television since the age of 13 in 1974. They were designed to allow me to serve many radio, tv, and cable systems automatically using my real voice. I retired in 2001 to the Caribbean.
Our home's website is at http://thomaschurchill.tripod.com.
A live webcam from our home, Xanadu, is available on http://www.drsol.info.
And the latest on 'T.C.' (Tom Churchill not The Computer) is at http://www.virtualvoice.info.
Happy Easter from the Islands! - Tom (aka XR)
-Thomas J. Churchill
Virtual Voice Technologies, L.L.C.
EPS-D4036
PO Box 02-5548
Miami, FL 33102
''Share and Enjoy'' is the company motto of the hugely successful Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints division, which now covers the major land masses of three medium sized planets and is the only part of the Corporation to have shown a consistent profit in recent years. The motto stands - or rather stood - in three mile high illuminated letters near the Complaints Department spaceport on Eadrax. Unfortunately its weight was such that shortly after it was erected, the ground beneath the letters caved in and they dropped for nearly half their length through the offices of many talented young complaints executives - now deceased. The protruding upper halves of the letters now appear, in the local language, to read ''Go stick your head in a pig'', and are no longer illuminated, except at times of special celebration." -The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
I'm not really clear on why he's AKA XR, but it doesn't matter really, does it? I finally have the words to go with the voice!
in other news
BrilliantEditor and I went to Walton for Easter. One the way there we go through Whitney Point. (Incidentally, the decision to _not_ put in public sewer and to stick with septic tanks and wells is what keeps Whitney Point from growing any larger. It just can't support anymore of our shit.)
On a sign outside a diner, was written this:
EASTER BUNNY HERE TODAY!!
COOK WANTED
BE spotted that one. Good eye, I say.
Posted by dotty at March 27, 2005 11:03 PM