Ref me baby one more time
I spent the evening listening to an interview Wil Wheaton did. One of the things he mentioned was that he thought that the hurricane Katrina might have changed things, the way people think, and that suddenly, or at least for a while now, focus on celebrities are beginning to return to a more sane level.
One of the good things out of this is, Britney Spears had her baby and nobody cares, and nobody should care!
That was news to me, which kind of drives his point home. Even though I rarely follow any news source, outside what seaps into the blogs I read, I usually know all too well about Britney Spears and her life. And yeah, I listened to that show for 90 minutes and all I can remember right now is Britney Spears. Sorry Wil and Chase!
Anyway, the reason I do remember it so clearly is because in the pilot episode of the new tv series Threshold, Brent Spiner’s (yeah, you see how my brain works?) character Nigel Fenway mentions exactly this:
Do you think people give a flying fart about science? The day the Mars Rover landed, what was the top story in the news? Britney Spears Married in Vegas! Given the state of the world today, a little alien intervention might just be what the doctor ordered.
Although some of us are actively trying to forget her, and I must say the outlook is positive, she is still there in the back of our minds. Somewhere there is a reference to her which makes it impossible for us to forget. That’s just the way our minds work, or at least mine.
This leads me very smoothly into the lyrics I found at robot101. In fact, this whole blog entry was just a setup so I could show you this. The ref count song:
Oh baby, baby
How was I supposed to know
This memory’s from the heap
Oh baby, baby
I shouldn’t have let it go
And now its out of scope, yeah
Show me where I should have called free
Tell me baby ’cause I need to know now, oh becauseMy memory leak is killing me
I must confess, I still believe
When all my objects are hard to find
Give me a count
Ref me baby one more time