Is the Chimp a Shill?

This youtube vid my father-in-law sent me is a crack up. It’s long, but you only need to watch the first minute to get a good laugh going.

 

Resist the usual

Of course creativity works!!

Saw this clip by following a link on my friend John’s tweet.

 

An Abecedarium for Today’s Youth

You know how when you type a letter into a search box and immediately a dropdown box of suggestions appears?

My friend Nathen’s friend, Ethan, over at the blog The Quodlibertarian wrote an interesting post about measuring celebrity by how quickly a person’s name pops up when typing in a letter in a YouTube search box. His YouTube alphabet begins: Akron, Beyonce, Chris Brown, Disturbia…

He goes further by also listing a Google alphabet, which begins: Amazon, Bank of America, Chase…

However, I think that a Google dropdown suggestion box is influenced by your previous use of it. For instance, my “F” brings up Francisco Goya and “P” pulls up purses, whereas Ethan gets Facebook and Paypal.

Check out Ethan’s post here. (I had to look up abecedaria to see what it meant – and then immediately wanted to use it as a post title like he did. It’s matching a word to each letter; an abecedarium is a primer, often used to teach the alphabet.)

 

Stop Motion with Wolf and Pig

Thanks for sharing, Kimetha!

 

Time Lapse of a Nine-Month Old Baby

Got it off Boing Boing.

Pretty funny. All the grown-up interaction has been edited out (you can see the shadows). Enjoy.

 

So Easy, Even a Chimp Can Do It…

Actually, Bella crashed three times when she tried a segway, but this crazy chimp gets the idea right away! The video is a little long (4:47), but you only have to watch 30 seconds to be laughing. It is gratifying to watch to the end though, and see how quickly and how much the chimp learns.

 

Nostalgia for my alma maters

Hmm, that may not seem correct, but a perfunctory google check says, yes indeed, that “alma maters” is the plural for “alma mater.”

As I cleaned up my email inbox yesterday I finally watched a youtube video my brother, Songbae, sent me back in early September. The email said only, Start listening at 1:33, so I advise you to do the same.

The youtube video is called “Damn It Feels Good to Be a Banker: A Wall Street Musical” and while I think the video is now obviously out-of-date (Songbae is currently sending me quotes like this from the Oct 3 Harvard Business Online: “A male investment banker [who has lost 80% of his net worth in the last year] tells of bad dreams and grinding his teeth so badly he recently cracked two molars.” ) the mention of my old high school, made me guffaw. Whitman was [is] really a public school aspiring to a private school reputation.

And recently I also read a light coming-of-age romance by Golda Fried called Nellcott is my Darling, which is entirely set in Montreal and at McGill University. Fried’s writing is spare and with splashes of lyrical metaphor. The story basically chronicals a good girl going off to university and falling for a guy, who frankly is more into himself than he is into her – the whole thing rings very true for an awkward freshman romance. It’s that crush kind of love you have on guys before you really know anything about yourself. It’s not normally what I would pick to read, but it was a nice change of pace and I LOVED reading about Montreal and McGill and Molson Hall (where I lived for a year)…The five reveiwers at amazon raved over it here, but I’m guessing they’re all college-aged kids themselves. I give it a B. (Thanks Tiff for sending me this – I sent it off to Chantelle to read next.)

 

Hode de door!

This one is funny. I thieved it from dooce.com and I justify this thievery because people have actually told me that they never go to read dooce.com.

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I think she’s funny and she usually makes me laugh. Also I enjoy her sense of design. In any case, here’s the Aunt Jemima! video she posted. It’s long (3:46 min), but you won’t regret it.