Francis the Friendly Giant Bear

My friends and I made this a long time ago and it has hit the YouTube world at last!

The Statistics You Should Know

While I was cruising through a community on LiveJournal, I found a link to GraphJam. It's amazing. People can create and upload their own charts and a lot of them are hilarious! These are some of my favorites:


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And of course:

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Introducing: PaisleyTube

That's right. I have made a blog on blogger that is only for my videos. You will be able to view and comment on all of my videos while checking out related links and reading up-to-date commentary on them. It's just getting started but to check it out, visit the link:

http://paisleytube.blogspot.com

The Adventures of Pong and Freck

Summer seems to be going okay. I’ve been hitting the gym and reading a lot but I’m still on the hunt for a job. Thankfully, in the past week, I’ve had some babysitting opportunities. I hadn’t babysat in quite a while. Mostly because I’ve had jobs at the outlet and then lived on a college campus. However, the past few jobs have been really fun. Last Saturday I ate enough blueberry pie and chicken nuggets (from a play kitchen) to feed a third world country. I was reminded how much I liked watching Kratts’ Creatures when I was younger by watching some Zoboomafoo. I played Barbies and Little People (and for once, didn’t invent a currency or create a monarchy). I went down the same slide about 10 times. I watched one of my childhood favorites, "An American Tale," and much more.

For entertainment purposes only, I’ll tell you a special story about Pongo and Freckle (or Pong and Freck, for short), one of Noah’s giraffes and a Littlest Pets Pegasus.
Once upon a time they met. Pongo lived on an ark and Freckle lived on an airplane. Freckle’s mom was a cow named Kim, who also had a calf named Kip. There was a tiger that tried to eat Freckle, and no matter how Mrs. Noah would lock him up or give him punishments, he was still mean. Then one day, after Freckle was abandon by Kim and Kip and adopted by a stallion named Jamie and his butterfly wife, the tiger became a vegetarian and was forever friends with Freck and his new family. They would all watch TV, eat breakfast and play ball. Things weren’t all happy on the arc though. Earlier, the three evil McDonalds brothers were imprisoned in the dark compartments of the ark. They were guarded by a giant robot, the tiger and Toukie and toucan. Despite Noah’s best efforts, they escaped. They wanted revenge because Freckle’s ball had bounced on all of their heads. They tried to bite Freck, but Mrs. Noah threw them into a hole.
The End.

Little People (the ones I was playing with and the one playing with me) are good for making up such crazy stories. Thankfully, nobody died, which was a welcome change from the Barbie scenario, however, we still got to have a brief lesson about how the McDonalds Brothers should not say that they hate Freckle and want to kill him even though they are really bad.

Moral of the story: Just walk to the park.

Captcha: A Little Less Conversation

No, I didn't spell anything wrong. I point you to Urban Dictionary's second entry for the word:

captcha:
2. that annoying thing with letters and number (e.g. A7FF9YTP) that sucks a lot when you do it wrong cause you have go back and do another one.
ex: i friggin hate captchas

I was annoyed when websites began using captcha (word verification) programs. It added another step to what should be a quick and simple process. As time went by, however, I got used to them and even became grateful that I didn’t have to deal with nearly as many spam bots. At first the boxes were small and asked merely for a few letters or a short word written out clearly. Now, we have things like this:



What? Not joking, I named that file "areyoukiddingme.jpg" when I saw it. That’s way too long. At least Facebook makes it so they are real words or at least decipherable. On some sites, I can’t even read what they have abstractly written out, forcing me to try three times before I can finally post.

That’s insanity.

If my internet time were a pie chart, it would look like this:

BEFORE


AFTER


Have the people who are making these even thought about it? Did they just think they could run Sunday’s crossword answers through program and be able to keep everyone happy?


While I was considering my hatred of captcha, I found an interesting article via Google. It’s PG-13, but is totally related and was killing me.
Facebook Takes the Captcha Rap

I Never Fail To Be Disappointed

Now that three of my favorite shows are hitting the television graveyard (three in one season…what’s wrong with me?) I’m pretty miffed. At least Chuck got out of its first season, but Dollhouse (it's on the cusp) and Kings didn’t even have a chance thanks to poor advertising, poor channel placement (hey FOX, what happened to your last Joss Whedon series?) and ridiculous time slots.

But what can be done? Maybe it’s for the best. Arrested Development was a hilarious show but got canceled after three seasons. The Office was a hilarious show but it’s quickly becoming sub-par with fewer jokes and more drama.

Worst of all are the shows like Desperate Housewives, Sex and the City, Gossip Girl and the continuous stream of wannabe, mainstream soap operas that fill up all of the decent time slots. The half-decent King of the Hill and not quite as entertaining Simpsons are pushed to near midnight showings to make room for shows that are, incredibly enough, more idiotic (see Family Guy and American Dad).

Watching a few episodes Mystery Science Theatre 3000 this week has made me reflect on what an excellent show that was. I liked watching the segments with puppets and the hosts when I was little (it’s exactly the same as Sesame Street…right?) and now I can enjoy the witty film segments that are the entire point of the show. This show lasted almost forever (11 seasons) and still has a large following. Why aren’t there more shows like this? I suppose that between YouTube and InfoMania, the whole genre is covered…but still something to watch with your friends on TV (rather than hard chairs by the computer) would be nice. In fact drama that isn’t crime or relationship oriented would also be nice. Why can’t everyone want these same things?

At least I still have a few months of my favorite shows to look forward to this year…and a healthy season of So You Think You Can Dance.

Oh, TV.

NOTE: Sorry about all of the parentheses...it just happened.
NOTE 2: I may be overly excited for the RiffTrax version of Twilight.

This Takes Me Back

When I was in elementary school, I decided I really wanted a hedgehog. I would read books, write reports, look at pictures all about hedgehogs. I even started raising meal worms (partially out of enjoyment) but also because they are a favorite snack of hedgehogs. Sure, they do some gross things, but all animals do. I still think they are adorable. However, when my mom found out that she was allergic to rodents I officially gave up on ever owning a small prickly friend.

While I was eating lunch and watching some Colbert Report, I came across the segment below. Anyone who has ever wanted a hedgehog, been begged for a hedgehog or watched cute hedgehog videos on youtube, will enjoy it.

YouTube Welcomes Two New Friends

My two youngest finally made it into the world of YouTube. Give them some love.

I present, "Age of Peeps" (based on Age of Empires) and "World of Peepcraft" (Based on World of Warcraft). I've heard that the script to the second is not pleasant for some, but believe me, I toned it down a lot from what Fritzler brought over.

Here are links [I will embed players in a week]:
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Blv2jIPOzA
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95O7xJkHDWQ