This is where I came in...

[migrated from myspace blog]

Some should really write a book on the origin of certain phrases in the English language (and I'm including British English here as well. "Bob's Your Uncle"?)

I think my favorite story behind a given phrase is the now less-used phrase, "This is where I came in." Someone may use that phrase just before leaving a room, and it's not referring to the door they walked through in order to enter.

Before the 1960 theatrical debut of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, theaters didn't sell tickets for a certain movie for a certain time. They just sold tickets to the movie, then people could go in and leave whenever they wanted. So it was almost assured that a ticket-holder would walk in sometime during the movie, which would result in seeing the ending of the movie before the beginning. Once the movie got back around to a scene they recognized..."This is where I came in"...and time to leave.
Of course this ruins any movie that is intended to have a surprise ending, thus:

Was I the only person not aware that they are now building usb ports directing into computer monitors?



I found a couple of pretty interesting bands yesterday. One calls herself ComputeHer, and she plays in another band called 8 Bit Weapon. They both use 8-bit sounds from sources such as NES, Gameboy, Commodore 64, toy keyboards, and laptop drum pads to write original music. (One game specifically mentioned was Burger Time.) Anyway, the most interesting part about their 2 latest releases is the packaging. Hand-crafted CD "cases" built from 5 1/4" floppy discs (with the magnetic discs still inside).