Oh my god, they’re just so cute I could die. I can’t stop watching these over and over again!
We originally recorded these videos to upload them to the Jokes4Miles website. Basically, a Chicago comedian is trying to collect 5,000 jokes to help his son through his chemotherapy. Unfortunately, when I went to upload the videos, we found out there is a certain format we needed to follow (state your name, location, etc.). So I’m not sure if I want to go back and re-record them or not. But in the meantime, you guys get to enjoy them!
Back in the ’80s, there was a fantastic cartoon by the name of Jem.
Jerrica was a mild mannered band manager by day, but a mysterious pop superstar known as Jem by night. She achieved this with the help of a computer known as Synergy, which was able to project holograms out of Jerrica’s earrings. Therefore, in addition to other illusions, Synergy could project the Jem image over the top of Jerrica, keeping her identity a secret. Sort of Hanna Montana with crime-fighting superpowers.
Jem was supposed to be for girls, so why did I like it? Was it because Jem was outrageous? Truly, truly, truly outrageous? Wikipedia tells me “the same team responsible for G.I. Joe and Transformers”, so I guess those guys just had my number. The thing is, I don’t feel like Jem is remembered with the same fondness as G.I. Joe and Transformers. Is this some kind of gender issue? Or is it because the bad guys on those show were cold blooded killers, and the bad guys on Jem were only evil because their “songs are bitter”.
The best part is that I now use a program at work called Synergy. Is it a coincidence, or do you think the creators of that software were Jem fans? It neither speaks, nor creates holographic projections, but that doesn’t mean I can’t say things like, “Synergy, download the latest model for me!” I don’t think it listens to me.
Some profanity (but I assure you, it’s done tastefully).
I always did want to have a coctail made from a fighter jet that I knocked out of the sky with a crossbow. Is it true that you can spin an electric eel so fast it rips the space time continuum and take you to the future?
Wouldn’t it be awesome if all commercials were made like this? It would totally make me want to watch commercials again. And also, to buy a TrackChair:
I have seen one robot playing music, but I have not seen *many* robots playing music. And something so cool might as well be set to the James Bond theme, right?
Sure, you could have made a robotic synthesizer with speakers, or even one robot to play the music, but there is definitely something cooler about the fact that it is many robots coordinating together to make the music.
It is also frightening to see them working together like this. Definitely reminds me of the swarminoid. Sure, for now the robots just play music and get books off of shelves, but is it that hard to imagine them coordinating an attack on the human overlords, or the manufacture of additional robots of their own design? We’re swimming in dangerous waters my friends.
Warning, the following baby-tossing video is extremely difficult to watch:
It absolutely seems fake, but Gawker has covered it extensively, and it seems to be legit, as far as they can tell.
It’s amazing how you just have this gut reaction to seeing a baby treated in such a fashion. I think it is something biological; it’s like we see it and we fear for the survival of our species (both for that individual baby, and society as a whole to have produced a person that would even want to throw a baby around like that!). Sara said it made her feel sick to her stomach.
The thing that’s not really covered in any of the information I’ve read about it, is why you would even want to throw your baby around like that. Even if you somehow convinced me that it was safe, that it didn’t hurt the baby, and in fact the baby didn’t mind (which is not what it sounds like from that video), you still haven’t convinced me that there is any benefit to it. What’s the purpose? To get your baby used to roller coasters? Prevent a fear of heights? No other form of weight training can give you quite the same rippling biceps? Even if it brings you and the baby “closer together”, isn’t there about a hundred better ways you could have accomplished that?
Shane Halbach 