Monkey With a Typewriter
"...Look at me. I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty." - Groucho Marx in Monkey Business, 1931
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Showing you my "wow".
No, it's nothing dirty. I just made the switch to Windows Vista Ultimate, and I'm loving it so far. Very pretty to look at, low learning curve, and unlike previous Windows OS, seems pretty intuitive and user friendly. Here's hoping the hardware manufacturers get their butts in gear (I'm looking at YOU Creative Labs) and send out some proper Vista drivers.
Also figured out a neat hack to do a clean install, so I didn't have to force Vista over XP. It's like I paid for the upgrade but got the full disc! I wish Windows would follow Mac's lead and just drop the prices on their OS to a reasonable level.
I'm goign to expand my fun page on the site soon to include monkey games and some other cool things I have going. You'll see!
Labels: Fun hacks, Showing my wow, Windows Vista
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Lite Brite as it's meant to be seen...
It's astounding. Amazing. Those advertising hacks from my childhood always had me believing that LiteBrite was capable of creating astounding glowing masterpieces. I owned two in my childhood and never really made anything to be proud of. But look at this video! Maldroid brings us astounding LiteBrite stop motion animation while simultaneously maligning techno music! Home run!
Labels: evil robots, Glowing toys, Lite Brite, President Bush, Stop motion
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Super Blah
How awful was that game tonight? Just mistake after mistake. The two conference championship games were marvels to behold. Stunning contests of will, tenacity, who would score last, or in the case of the Bears/Saints game, could Grossman pull his head out long enough to get the win the D was working so hard to achieve?
The SuperBowl, in contrast, was a game ruled by miscues, soft D from the Bears, and a single player destroying his team's chances. I'm a Bengals fan first and foremost, but in the NFC, I likes me some Bears. Grossman's gotta go. Now. Don't even wait until after the ProBowl. Make a move, bench him and bring in a journeyman with some skills (Jeff Garcia, anyone?). The Bears deserved better that waht they showed tonight. They were almost as bad as the shameless self-promoting Timberlake ripoff that Rex Grossman features on his website.
RexyBack - try not to puke while listening...
Bad, bad, bad.
And what was up with the commercials? Awful, unfunny, and pretty morbid. An old man in a heart costume gets his ass kicked by a bunch of leather-wearing thugs? Office people survive in the jungle and get humiliated? A poor car-making robot is driven to suicide after dropping a screw on the assembly line?
My favorite part of the evening was Prince's "Austin Powers" innspired Penis puppet shadow show! Enjoy - who knows how long until YouTube blocks it?
I'm unimpressed. I'm unhappy.
But I DID discover that God favors the Colts. He hates the Bears, man. I guess he's making them repent for the sin of pride (from 1986) by foisting Grossman upon them. Dungy, Manning, the owner of the Colts, everyone made it clear. The only thing God had on his mind tonight was a ring for the Colts. Hey, you know when God gets involved in the game? When Ditka calls his number, that's when! Otherwise, he's got other things to do.
Friday, February 02, 2007
Late night humor
I saw this first clip and can't stop laughing. The music seals the deal, along with the look on the victim's face at the end. The ends justify the means. He smells better now, and we've all been entertained...
The next video made me laugh when I thought about the theory of it. Seeing it in action is funny/scary/sad...
Okay, okay. I'm sorry I scared you all. Here's an extremely funny and cruelty-free cat on drugs to make up for it.
Posting a lot of vids lately, I know. But all of my creative thought is aimed towards writing and doing websites. I'll have more interesting things to say at some point down the road. Until then, enjoy the moving pictures!
Also, by request from Neil Gaiman, you can play a cosmic joke on Penn Jillette by clicking the link...


