Every time I see an "Assembly of God" church, I want to start one called "Higher-Level Language of God". But then I figure God would just program directly on the metal, and wouldn't even need an assembler, let alone a compiler, so I shut up.

Yesterday, browsing old links on Fark, I came across the Flash "video" done by Spümco (of Ren and Stimpy fame) for Tenacious D's song, Fuck Her Gently. Oddly enough, the video linked from Fark is different than the one on Tenacious D's official site — in the former, the succubus is wearing a bra top, rather than going bare-breasted. (Which, given the fact that the lyrics contain the word "fuck" about once every five seconds, and that the entire song is about sex, doesn't make a whole lot of sense; is covering up a pair of cartoon tits really going to make it any less offensive?)

Anyway, I love Flash animations. I especially enjoy taking them apart to see if any easter eggs are hidden inside, and this one didn't disappoint. For example, towards the end of the video, when the two horny putti are hard at work "on the job", the animators had a little fun putting in an anatomical detail that was supposed to remain obscured behind the salacious cherubim.

Click the image above to see what was underneath the putti (image will open in a new window).

The devil melting at the end is one of the coolest things I've ever seen in a Flash animation. No, I think it's the coolest thing I've seen in a Flash animation. On a tangent, I might have to add TNN to my cable channels next year, if only just to see the new episodes of Ren and Stimpy produced with John Kricfalusi back at the helm.

I had decided that, if I ever decided to make a CD of my own music, I'd do it under the "band" name Syllabub. I figured nobody else would use the name of an 18th-century whipped-cream-and-lemon-zest dessert for a rock band.

I was wrong.

Well, there's always Crucial Pickle, I suppose...

Last Thursday, Eudora locked up while trying to retrieve my email. This generally occurs if, for some reason, my site isn't responding — so I tried to call up a page on my site, which timed out. So I tried pinging it. No response. I tried a traceroute, which stopped at the machine just before mine.

So I called the tech support line at my Webhosting service (OCHosting.com), and they said it appeared to be a server issue, and they'd look into it.

When I got home, my wife had taken a phone call from someone who claimed that OCHosting had gone out of business, and would I like to sign up with them instead? This sounded fishy, so I called OCHosting again, and got a recording confirming that they had, indeed, gone out of business. Nice of them to tell their customers!

So I moved to C I Host, whose services OCHosting was merely reselling. They moved the page content over relatively quickly, though it took them some time to actually copy over the MySQL databases. And I've apparently got to rebuild my .bashrc and .htaccess files on my own, and wait for the DNS changes to propagate. Sigh.

Thanks, OCHosting. Smegheads.