05/17/09 09:44 - ID#48687

lemme tell ya

I could watch this video all day. I just wanted to see what it was like to watch it twice at the same time.

I think this guy needs a cable TV show where he explains things to people.

- Z

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05/14/09 11:36 - ID#48666

woh

I don't know if anybody else is having this problem, but we're having trouble with the google-webs at my house. It's weird, I can't concentrate without it. I don't know if I've got emails, or if somebody's posted on estrip, or if the world is ending, or what hilarious LULZ somebody's glued to a kitten in the last three hours. I haven't used Yahoo in like ten years and although I'm sure it's a lovely site it's just totally throwing me off-kilter.

- Z

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04/01/09 12:39 - ID#48254

i just can't stop

From the collection of the Museum of Bad Art

- Z

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02/21/09 01:08 - ID#47840

attempted not known

attempted not known

Thing three: we finally did get the Obama coins, ugh.

(e:zobar,47301) They were addressed to 40 Hartford St, 14221, which I am told does not exist, so they sent it to us instead. I brought the package back to the post office and explained to the woman at the counter what happened. She put it in a stack and sent it back to 14221. As I was walking back home it occurred to me that we may be headed for a problem.

Sure enough, two days later we got the same package again. This time it said ANK, which is short for 'Attempted Not Known,' which itself is short for 'If this gets to its intended destination you owe the entire post office a beer.' (e:dragonlady7) said she'd try sending them back this time. I said the suspense was killing me and if we get them again I'm keeping those hokey-ass coins. [It's inexplicable why I want them.] So she went to the post office and told them the package just wasn't going to get through to Mary Sheehan, and they should probably just return to sender. The post officer told her that since they weren't the stated destination they weren't allowed to make that decision, and the only thing they could do is send it back to 14221. You can see where this is going.

But no, she blacked out the address, put a couple hundred stickers all over it, and finally got rid of it once and for all.

- Z

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Deep thought: Transit Road is a perfectly straight line, thirty miles long. God will judge us by our works, and that's going to be a tough one to explain.

Google Image Search tells me this is a photograph of a 1981 Zenith television. Not so much 'steampunk' as 'we may as well have poured this one in concrete, cause it's not going anywhere.

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01/29/09 09:06 - ID#47553

the baddest motherfucker

Today's "Baddest Motherfucker" award goes to Vint Cerf

the man who invented TCP/IP just so that he could have a Facebook page

Gaze on his works ye mighty and despair.

Now he's pissed off like a vengeful creator

- Z

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Today's "Wack Motherfucker" award goes to the first commenter who mentions Al Gore.

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01/26/09 10:56 - ID#47528

bad command or file name

> Pose as a team, because SHIT JUST GOT REAL.

You copy and paste your previous poses into a new file and animate the background rapidly.
>

- Z

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11/14/08 06:46 - ID#46692

shocking

Huh.

- Z

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11/11/08 10:16 - ID#46641

clever

I heart stop-motion animation. This is from PES:

::Download Flash Video::

Check out his other stuff

- 'Western Spaghetti' is cute and 'KaBoom' is really well done.

- Z

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10/20/08 09:19 - ID#46217

youtube roundup

...or, an easy way to waste one hour, three minutes, and 49 seconds of your life.

There's actually a lot of pretty cool stuff on YouTube. But how come when I'm bored all I can find is Japanese gameshows?

First we've got some Scottish dude with a pianozookelele singing Europe's 'The Final Countdown.'

Which led me to these Latvian dudes rocking out with their cellos out. [Yes I've heard of Apocalyptica.]

Here's some other Latvian dudes for whom walking is just too boring. [fast forward two minutes]

And then I spent like a couple hours watching Flight of the Conchords videos.

This guy over here isn't on YouTube but he listened to 'Dancing Queen' on Repeat One for an entire four-hour road trip -- and then got stuck in traffic for another hour. I don't know why.

- Z

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You wanted Japanese gameshows? Like for reals? Fine, here's Marshmallow Eater, What a Cool We Are, Silent Library, cat weightlifting, Door Runner, and Brain Wall keeping the treadmill and ice water industries in business. I can only imagine what kind of poor life decisions turn you into a recurring character on these shows.

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09/18/08 11:51 - ID#45722

what's the deal?! with? microsoft?!

I'm going to take an unpopular position: I liked Microsoft's ads. I don't even like Jerry Seinfeld, but I liked the idea of Bill Gates as a warped Dave Thomas. I liked the idea of two out-of-touch dudes trying to reconnect with America in the most awkward way possible. They weren't funny. They weren't supposed to be funny. They were weird, but I guess weird doesn't sell.

Here's an even more unpopular position: I kind of like Bill Gates. He's really chilled out since Steve Ballmer took over. He no longer sounds like some college sophomore who's just discovered Ayn Rand. Now he's just some dude you might find hanging out at a bridge tournament in grungy jeans. [True story: my brother-in-law played him at bridge, and won.]

But of course people hated the campaign so they're scrapping it for something that's clever but predictable: a bunch of people who are not John Hodgman, with not-combovers and wearing not-business suits, being not-pathetic, and holding up signs that say "I'm a PC." Lame.

- Z

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ps. Yes, I'm famous for being lazy. I think that's worse than being famous for being fat.

metalpeter writes at 07:41:19 09/23/08 - Comment #39181: Just an update they have come out with a couple "I'm a PC" ads, by the way that idea of everyone going around saying that was used in another ad and was taken (i think) from the Movie Malcolm X there is a part in it where all sorts of people go around saying "I am Malcolm X". I myself was hoping for better but it isn't bad. In on add He does say something about not being hip.

morgan writes at 04:17:25 09/23/08 - Comment #39166: I just saw the one about the shoe store not more than a week ago. It's like a mini Seinfeld about nothing that includes Bill Gates. I find it hilarious!

This is the first time I saw the one with the family, and holy crap is it long! I'm glad I stayed with it though, I cracked up when Bill Gates did the robot dance.

paul writes at 02:04:49 09/19/08 - Comment #39040: I like Bill Gates too. I named one of my favorite server's Billy after him. Not that I like microsoft or windows. Just him, as an icon. I actually prefer him 100,000,000 to 1 over Steve "I am a stuck up shit head" Jobs - whose products I prefer (minus the cut, copy, paste missing in my iphone) - oh the irony.

tinypliny writes at 09:03:27 09/18/08 - Comment #39018: I think the keyword is Famous. Who cares what your famous for. Collective memories are so fickle. Public memories don't exist. So yeah! You are famous!!! :D

PS: The second ad was slightly more funnier than the earlier one. :)

metalpeter writes at 08:22:50 09/18/08 - Comment #39010: On Tv this was two adds it ended around the Theft and said to be continued. I liked the ads because they where different but they aren't funny. I think that what they need to do is some how come up with a parody of those MAC ads but it would be tough those ads are awesome and funny all at once. Who they need to get is who ever did the beer ads that mock out other beer ads. Like when the Budweiser dog jumps off the truck to another beer truck as an example. Like maybe they could show some guy who thinks he is hip taking his computer into an apple store so he can have all his files switched to the New Mac he is going to buy and there are little things that shows he isn't as hip as he thinks he is. Then as they switch files he loses documents and it doesn't work or something along those lines, the tag line could be something about. Windows Isn't hip it just works and does what it is supposed to do. Even though you can use Windows on Mac's from what I have read most people don't.

carolinian writes at 12:18:02 09/18/08 - Comment #38994: When I first saw it, I thought it was a campaign relating to Bill Gates' charity foundation, and at any moment I expected to hear Seinfeld say something cute like "Hey Bill, what's up with that malaria thing?".