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Posted on May 29, 2008 at 11:17 pm
- I love Isabella Rossellini. For the Sundance Film Festival, she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in a series of shorts called Green Porno. In each short, she dresses up like some bug, and then explains and simulates their reproduction. It is, in a word, fantastic. Potentially NSFW, if you work in an office full of insects.
- Like the Internet? Watch Weezer’s new video for their single “Pork and Beans” and see how many Internet memes/YouTube sensations you recognize to check your pop-nerd-cred.
- Side effect of the Weezer video: discovering the Daft Hands video and assorted spinoffs.
- Lastly, the geek in me must share this article about Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine, complete with this spectacular anecdote:
We were arguing about what the name of the company should be when Richard walked in, saluted, and said, “Richard Feynman reporting for duty. OK, boss, what’s my assignment?” The assembled group of not-quite-graduated MIT students was astounded.
After a hurried private discussion (”I don’t know, you hired him…”), we informed Richard that his assignment would be to advise on the application of parallel processing to scientific problems.
“That sounds like a bunch of baloney,” he said. “Give me something real to do.”
So we sent him out to buy some office supplies.
That is all.
Oh my. This is… amazing.
(via Daring Fireball.)
Tonight I was buying some food, and the cashier was whistling a familiar tune.
“Monty Python?” I asked. He told me I was the first person all night to know that, so he gave me a free box of Ritz crackers.
Hooray free crackers! Monty Python, you’ve saved me again.
Remember when this happened? No? Go read it again. I’ll wait here.
Good? Good.
Hoo-ah!
Gerald Ford was not mauled senselessly by a circus lion in a convenience store, as previously predicted in this SNL sketch starring Dana Carvey as Tom Brokaw prerecording news briefs for every possible death of the former President. (via Defamer)
Farewell to both of you, Gerald Ford and SNL being funny. Rest in peace.
ם My Future
Posted on November 17, 2006 at 1:14 am
It’s that time of the semester again: class registration time!
Naturally, I had to do some credit-counting to figure out the remainder of my college career. And what did I realize? I’m graduating in 2 semesters (one semester early) with a major and two minors (Mathematics, Pre-Business Studies, and Computer Science, respectively).
And the kicker: I’ll be graduating roughly ten days after my 21st birthday. That is, needless to say, terrifying.
Eesh.
On a lighter note, here’s a video of a guy juggling inside an eight foot tall inverted plastic cone. I like to call it “Bohr’s Model of a Juggler.” (Hooray atomic physics jokes!)
Brandon Bonfiglio is a dear, dear friend of mine. He also produces music videos. Last night, he won a MTV VMA for Video of the Year! Congrats, Brandon!
More importantly: I get to play with a moonman!
But that’s not where the fun ends with Brandon. He’s been in New York all week because of the VMAs (he lives in LA), so we’ve been hanging out. Note, however, that Brandon looks eerily like Ryan Reynolds, star of flops cinematic gold such as Van Wilder, Blade: Trinity, The Amityville Horror, and Just Friends.
Don’t believe me? See for yourself:
Brandon Bonfiglio, Ryan Reynolds.
Brandon Bonfiglio, Ryan Reynolds.
Ryan Reynolds, Brandon Bonfiglio.
Well, Tuesday night, after a nice dinner of “N3″ at a Burmese restaurant, we were at Doc Holiday’s, a bar in the East Village. While we were standing outside, a thoroughly inebriated 20-something girl with a thick accent recognized my dear friend Ryan Reynolds. She kept trying to take pictures of him, but Brandon kept deferring her to his “manager” to get permission. His “manager” just happened to be a bearded homeless man who was asking for change when she spotted him. Hilarity ensued, and she eventually left angry but pictureless. Apparently just another night for Brandon, who this happens to often.
Now, this would be all fine and well if it ended there. But today, while cruising Gawker, I saw that somebody had Gawker Stalker-ed Ryan Reynolds.
Ryan Reynolds
103 PRINCE ST
Aug 31st, 2006 @ 3pm
I saw Ryan Reynolds (dee-lish) in the SoHo Apple store. God is he tall and handsome, is he still engaged?
I immediately texted Brandon to find out where he was yesterday at 3pm, and sure as shit, he was at the SoHo Apple store. Fantastic.
So, just a note to you, Gawker, “tall and handsome” actor Ryan Reynolds wasn’t at the Apple store yesterday, it was “tall and handsome” VMA winning producer Brandon Bonfiglio.
A few weeks ago, I wrote this post about MacSaber 1.0, a program to turn your brand new MacBook into a lightsaber. To quote myself:
Really, I just can’t wait for a video to hit YouTube of some geek wildly swinging his MacBook around, fighting off the Dark Side.
Luckily, all of my wildest dreams have come true.
YouTube <3