Internet Radio DJ

I have discovered a great new way to distract myself at work. Yahoo offers a free service called Launchcast, where you create a little radio station for yourself. You rate a bunch of different artists and by doing so, the robots behind the scenes manage to craft a good playlist for you. It will come in very handy when the robots rise up and destroy humanity, so that you don't have to deal with the indignity of your Killbot blaring Fleetwood Mac as it lays its metallic pinchers upon you. For those who came here to rock, you can check out my station here. For those of you who didn't, let me show you to the door.

But as cool as it is to play around with Launchcast, I can't help but think it'd be a little better if they gave the user total control. Imagine if they let you play DJ, so you could come up with little promos between the songs. Here's how one of mine would go:

Bippity Boppity BANGARANG! This is Nikita Von Booyuckis, and I'm rocking, knocking, and restocking all day long today, playing only the finest booty-shakers and ravioli makers. If you don't like it, feed it to the Skunk Ape (cue the sound of Skunk Ape roaring)! You can really get your Truffle Shuffle on to this next one... Working for the Weekend by Loverboy! (cue another Skunk Ape roar)

I could probably just devote my entire work day to that station then. I could say things like, "The 5th caller gets a packet of staples and last year's yellow pages," at least until I ran out of office supplies. Whenever a coworker would try to talk to me, I'd just queue up a quote from Short Circuit on my soundboard and let them have it. And if it's too loud, you're too old! Nikita Von Booyuckis, signing off.

PS: New post on CarlosJacott.com by yours truly.

Posted by Cody at October 20, 2003 05:45 PM