This was a brilliant Piece of improve.
http://improveverywhere.com/2010/07/14/star-wars-subway-car/
in short 5 people got dressed up. Leia, stormtroopers and vader entered a subway train car and then proceeded to play out the capture scene in A New hope.
ShareLast friday, in commemoration of pac-man being 30 years old google changes their logo to a playable version.
Google Celebrating 30 years of Pac-man
This to me, was ingenious.
This morning I was pointed to another article.
http://www.crn.com/it-channel/225200162;jsessionid=UXFSVLVOSKLAZQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN
This one citing that “Online denizens spent over 4.8 million hours playing Pac-Man on Friday”
Now, Pac-man was easily one of my first video games. Most anyone over the age of 21 has seen or played pac-man, and at least knows what it is. The insert coin button gave you two simultaneous players. sharing the same lives, so you had to be careful. When I got to level 9 I realized that I had been playing too long and I had to force myself to stop for the day. 4.8 Million hours played in a 24 hour period. I’d believe it I know I contributed to a fair amount of time on it. I’ve had to keep myself from playing it again today now that I’ve found it again.
Addicting… yet so nostalgic.
Props to Google, this was simply genius.
And incase you lived in a cave on friday. the pacman logo is still available to play
ShareSPOILER… it’s obvious.. Buffy never loses… This video is up for a Webby Award in the mashup section. GO VOTE and support this BRILLIANT piece of Video!
http://www.youtube.com/webby?x=remixmashup
The Original
The Remix
A couple of people who commented on the Remix in the webby awards illustrated a very specific point that I have unable to put into proper words. I want to quote them directly.
jennpozner
“The main characters in Twilight seemed to embody antiquated, sexist gender stereotypes. Edward Cullen…spies on Bella, he stalks her (for “her own good”), he sneaks into her room to watch her sleep (without her consent) and even confesses to a deep, overpowering desire to kill her…”
lindsay.m.jolly
“Before you start talking about domestic violence maybe you should read Twilight or watch the books -- sure it isn’t great to encourage violence but it is certainly better than encouraging millions of young women to embrace the idea that the most perfect relationship includes threats of violence and stalking, as Edward commonly does with Bella.”
It’s one thing to write a book based around vampires, it’s another thing to make them abusive to people they are supposedly completely enraptured and in love with. Yes, Spike and Drew were abusive to each other, but that was their nature! They were vampires! Joss didn’t humanize and romanticize them! They were mean horrible, Brutal and soulless creatures! Stephanie Myers has created and romanticized the idea that being a woman and being abused is perfectly acceptable for “the perfect relationship” where he has flaws that are “enduring and charming”, and the poor man can’t control himself despite his best efforts. Shame on you Myers. Seriously.
Read the notes of the guy who created it, the answer to the question What would Buffy Do?
Sharehttp://www.nerdist.com/2010/04/nerdist-podcast-10-live-largo-w-adam-savage-nsfw/
If you are a Mythbusters fan, This is a podcast for you. They hosted Adam savage this last week. This is hilarious it’s worth listening to repeatedly. But I will give a Warning. This is not for children, this has swearing and sexual connotation. It’s made of awesome, but NOT FOR CHILDREN.
ShareMy little sister works for an office assigning doctors to do… something… I honestly have no idea. But today she sent out this email to her siblings because she wanted to share the funny; with her permission (and by removing identifying information) she said I could post it.
The background on this is this was written by one of my physicians and I have no idea HOW he comes up with this stuff. I have scheduled him a few times to work in our Oakland, Ca office and he had written me an email about how he would prefer to not work there anymore and included this paragraph to back up his point……..I think he made his point, don’t you 
If you look favorably on my application to not work in Oakland, I will bring many attributes to my absence. First there is experience. I have a long, successful history of not going to Oakland. Then there is commitment. I am not just using an avoidance of Oakland as a stepping-stone to avoid other disagreeable places. I am into avoiding Oakland for the long run. I can always be counted on, come rain or come shine, to be elsewhere. There are many others who would like to be in the forget-Oakland position, but I should be considered the front-runner, because, even back in college, I made it a point to spend as much time as possible far from Oakland. I had this early insight because my father told me when I was on his knee “Son, you can do anything you want to do, be anything you want to be, and you can make this world a better place than you found it – - but not in Oakland.”
–Name of Doctor removed
ShareIt occurred to me, that if we ever actually had a Zombie attack — between, Hollywood, and the Game industry. We’ve already explored every possible method of their destruction. In the end, I don’t think we’d actually have many people die from a zombie Apocalypse.
As I explained this to a friend, he retorted with
“How soon you forget how many people are just plain idiotic… and how few people care for zombie games/movies. All-in-all though, the net outcome wouldn’t be so bad, though…”
This is true, we call this a natural thinning of the heard; only the Strong (and geek) will Survive.
But as I stated before. The Swine flu is the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. This is phase 1.
I imagine that Phase 5 is going to be this.
it’s called a “Sea Pig” And it also looks like Cthulhu.
Sea Pig Swine Flu.
Coincidence? I think not!
ShareSo my wife is out looking for Christmas Gifts, and at the bottom of this auction she sees the following Sentence.
I REQUEST THAT ALL PAYMENTS BE RECEIVED WITHIN SEVEN (5) DAYS FROM THE END OF AUCTION
*scratches head*
English not your first language there eh?
ShareAt my current employment we often get heated admins, and with that comes a number of them that created their own problems because they didn’t listen to us in the first place. This morning was one such occasion. One of my co-workers got an admin who was known to be be irate a lot. Again mostly for his own issues that he created because he didn’t listen to us.
after the call was over several of us were discussing the fact that the man never listens. My escalations lead had sat quietly and listen to the whole thing and then adds…
“I’d like to interrupt people like him one day and tell him ‘Sir, we aren’t going to continue until you sing “I feel Pretty” ‘ Just to see if he’d do it.”
Apparently the idea came from a movie called anger management.
It reminded me of an old looney toons cartoon where Elmer Fudd had an strange OCD issue. Whenever he heard part of the song “Sail away” he had to finish it. And of course Bugs tormented him with it. (is it really any wonder that he had no hair? Seriously?)
Makes me wonder, why should you bother with getting angry with people on the phone, they aren’t going to be able to give you results any faster.
I feel like that people who become irate on the phone have a general complex of “Give me what I want, and give it to me now because I said so” people who have everything handed to them. like spoiled children.
makes me want to ask them if they learned manners from oscar the grouch.
ShareI have a number of employees that work behind me. Several of them are really big burly men that I wouldn’t want to be in the same room as them if they got pissed off.
They are constantly chattering which isn’t a big deal to me, usually I can’t understand them and it’s just this low mumble.
Today.. was different. out of the blue I hear one of these men who has a pretty deep voice come out in this high pitched girly tone “I’m princess Jasmin.”
I turned around in my chair blinked at him. He looked at me just started chuckling because he realized what I had heard.
“Sounds like a personal problem, but hey everyone has their fetish.”
The laughing at ensued got us all into trouble.
but damn it was worth it.
ShareApparently at guy at work didn’t know what Tater tots were. We got into this whole conversation. Some people said they taste like crap. then it went from tater tots to Chocolate milk and how it makes him crap at light speed.
eventually this was said
” The preceding messages brought to in part by “What were you thinking?” by Milton Bradley, “leSIGH” and the letter UGH.”
some how I found this funny
*Note: this has been sitting in “unpublished” status for I have no idea how long.. I’m publishing it now because my primitive humor still finds it amusing.
Share[09:04] goodobiwayne: heyas boss.
[09:04] goodobiwayne: I am unable to log into CIM today
[09:04] Matt “Moo”: yassah
[09:04] Matt “Moo”: wazzit say?
[09:04] goodobiwayne: izza sez nuttin. I clickeded the btn and it dina work
[09:05] Matt “Moo”: huh. rebootin de beepy thingy?
[09:05] goodobiwayne: nada yet butta I was da tinking it over
[09:06] Matt “Moo”: btw should I be even remotely alarmed were speaking in Jar Jar?
[09:06] goodobiwayne: lol
[09:06] goodobiwayne: and here I thought sounded more like… slang jive
[09:06] Matt “Moo”: yousah goin to da reboot. Betting da beepy tingy working good
