cooking up the offense like he's cooking ravioli

This evening I volunteered my “services” to KCUR, to help start a couple of RSS newsfeeds and a Podcast. Someone from the station sent an email to our department at school looking for “a technical media whizbang”. I almost didn’t read the email after I saw that subject, because one of my deepest desires is to never be called a whizbang (it just doesn’t sound ilke anything I really want to be). After remembering that I never wanted to be a whizbang, I was curious enough to find out exactly what it required to be a “technical media whizbang”. Apparently doing something that takes a couple of hours qualifies me for the title (but I am hoping now that I have told them just how easy it is they will revoke the title of “technical media whizbang” from this job and never use that word again).

<p>I am hoping that if I get &#8220;the job&#8221; I get to meet <a href='http://kcur.org/voicesDetail.asp?ID=7'>Kim Noble</a>, <a href='http://kcur.org/voicesDetail.asp?ID=2'>Walt Bodine</a> or <a href='http://kcur.org/voicesDetail.asp?ID=26'>Steve Kraske</a>.</p>

<p>They might turn me down because I told them I didn&#8217;t want to help if I had to work with Windows, but we&#8217;ll see what develops. I don&#8217;t have any desire to learn ASP (Microsoft&#8217;s inferior dynamic programming language) and it feels wrong making something named after an <a href='http://www.apple.com/ipod'>Apple product</a> for Windows (although Apple has no problem doing it, but <a href='http://daringfireball.net/2005/02/firewire_hysteria'>that&#8217;s a different story</a>).</p>