Okay, we've got a weird one for you today, so hold onto your... holding-onto things. You may have noticed us whining incessantly about being way too busy lately, which has led to three developments. The first is that, as you're all too aware, AtAT episodes are broadcasting really, really late. (This is Thursday's episode, remember.) The second is that we're averaging about 90 minutes of sleep per day, all of which is generally accomplished involuntarily in twenty- or thirty-minute intervals, all while sitting up. And the third is that we have no time whatsoever to watch TV, which is a deprivation far more threatening to our lives and sanity than just losing a little sleep.

What this means is that we've got a TiVo full of Six Feet Unders stretching back to June, a complete season of Couplings (albeit a Jeffless one), and we can't record anything new without it getting deleted for the next new thing getting recorded in about an hour and a half. (Incidentally, if you don't have TiVo and you're thinking about getting it, let us know, because if you list us as your referrer, we earn credits toward a second recorder which we apparently really, really need.) And when we're too busy to watch Six Feet and Coupling, well, that's just plain too busy.

The upshot is that we certainly haven't had time to channel-surf late at night on the couch in hopes of coming across bizarre stuff that enlightens even as it baffles, so thank heavens faithful viewer Graham Still is filling in. Graham, you see, stumbled across something so odd that, had we ourselves encountered it in our current extra-deranged state, we likely would have either assumed we were suffering a psychotic break or just gone ahead and suffered one just to get it over with. See, while flipping channels, he wound up on the religious station TBN, which was reportedly showing a Bible trivia game show called Virtual Memory-- complete with a giant Power Mac G4 as part of the stage set.

Yes, we probably would have collapsed to the floor and started speaking in tongues, so it's a good thing that we're getting this information filtered through Graham instead of pumped directly into our eyeballs via the glowing rectangle-thing in the living room.

For what it's worth, the Virtual Memory site has links to clips from the show-- in Windows Media and Real formats only. Geez, for a show that allegedly uses giant Macs as scenery for its set, you'd think it'd at least provide video clips in QuickTime alongside those "other two." Then again, the links are all broken, anyway, so we suppose it doesn't much matter. We did, however, dig around a bit and finally found a link to a complete 27-minute show in RealMedia format. We're watching it right this second, and damned-- er, darned-- if there aren't Platinum-style windows on all the video screens and an honest-to-the-Big-Guy nine-foot Power Mac G4 on stage. And not only that, but the contestant desks look like six big fruit-flavored iMacs.

So there you have it: enough late-night TV weirdness to last you all the way through Sweeps. for our part, though, we're still wondering why those "Macs" were onstage in the first place. Aside from being totally off-topic for a game show about Bible questions, don't these guys realize that the Macintosh is the official Computer of Satan?