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Cool Lego clips
Jan 29th
So I noticed yesterday that Google’s logo was Lego-fied. Turns out it was Lego’s 50th anniversary. In the spirit of all things lego, here are some cool clips from YouTube!
(This video list is a partial mirror of the one at I. Z. Reloaded, I just wanted a condensed version on my own blog haha.)
So here’re my top picks from his list.
1. Lego Les Miserables. Really funny and impressive, especially if you’ve watched the musical.
2. Lego Dark Knight trailer. If you’ve watched the original trailer, you should be pretty amazed how well it translates to Lego.
3. Lego Bumblebee, a custom-built transformable version of Bumblebee from the Transformers movie. Cool stuff.
4. Lego Millennium Falcon, showing (accelerated) the painstaking steps involved in constructing one of those huge-ass Lego Star Wars toys. Makes me wish I’d bought one too – the ones from the original trilogy are out of production now and insanely expensive.
And if you’re not exactly the video-watching sort, The Brick Testament (biblical stories enacted in Lego scenes) never fails to entertain (me, anyway).
日本の形 (The Japanese Tradition)
Dec 22nd
So it all started with Yiwen sending me the link to this video on how to use hashi (chopsticks). I thought it was really funny so I searched for more in the series (apparently there’re quite a number, although I’ve only found a few that are subbed).
Since I’m in Japan and all it seems only fitting that I watch (and blog) about this, though watching them all has effectively killed about an hour of my life. Haha.
They all start relatively seriously (I actually thought it was a real documentary at first), but get progressively ridiculous and funny. Watch them if you have time – they’re really quite a hoot!
This is a list of episodes and links to the few subbed versions I’ve found online, hopefully I’ll be able to see them all one day ([J] links to the unsubbed versions I’ve found, you can try watching if you’re bored or if you actually understand Japanese).
The Japanese Tradition 「日本の形」
Hashi 「箸」
Origami 「折り紙」
Obon-Yasumi 「お盆休み」
Natsu Yasumi 「夏休み」
[J] Onigiri 「おにぎり」
[J] Ocha 「お茶」
Shazai 「謝罪」
Tejime 「手締め」
[J] Dogeza 「土下座」
Sushi「鮨」
lost in york, bizarro edition
Dec 6th
So I was checking out Google Translate (as part of my procrastination bid, of course) and tried seeing what my blog looks like in Chinese.
It’s quite funny. It’s a bit mind-staggering seeing my whole site (more or less) in Chinese, and I must say that the translation quality is pretty good, with a few hilarious mistakes though.
And York is translated as New York. How delightful to see the city you live in is not on Google’s radar. I wonder if they have the translation for Singapore?
In memory, Clippy
Nov 23rd
My psychology of design seminar today touched on affect and annoying things in technology design, and in the textbook chapter Clippy was mentioned. In case you don’t remember, Clippy was that annoying paperclip helper that’s enabled by default in the older versions of Office.
As it turned out, although he was intended to help, Clippy generally annoyed more people than he ended up helping (which is how he earned his way into the textbook, I think). And in reading Wikipedia, I found out that Microsoft had designed a series of short videos as part of an ad campaign, publicising Clippy’s removal (by default, anyway) from Office XP (watch them! they’re funny!).
Clippy Gets Clipped
Clippy Goes Undercover
Clippy Faces Facts
I particularly like how in the last video, there’s a short scene with a little computer mouse running behind the wall of the paperclip residence.
So where is Clippy today? Well I also found out from Wikipedia that he’s still around, as a Windows Dancer for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (whatever that means). Apparently the white sheet occasionally slips, revealing the thin curve of steel underneath.
Boo Who?General dance style: Spooky Groove
An avid dancer and amateur contortionist, “Boo Who?” or “Boo” as his friends call him, graduated cum laude from Contoso University in 1994 with a degree in the performing arts. Driven by dreams of fame, upon graduation “Boo” did a short stint of dinner theater in Boca Raton, Florida where he participated in a showtunes revue. It was after a harrowing incident involving a fork that Boo followed his classmates, entering the Information Technology industry where he served as Chief Technology Officer for Fitch & Mather. It was during that time that he formed a rock band and moved to Seattle, only to miss the grunge movement by two days. Disheartened, Boo returned once again to the familiar IT industry working for a short while for a Redmond, WA based software company, where he continued to work until being retired in 2001.
Since then, Boo has been hanging out on the LA mime circuit, practicing his dancing, acting, and singing in the hopes of becoming a “triple threat” on a future reality-based talent show. In his spare time, Boo picks up extra money as a part-time model for children’s Halloween costumes.
Hilarious! Microsoft has certainly earned itself many many cool points, in my book. Gosh. Who’d have thought?
A sign from up north
Jul 31st
(Mirroring http://community.livejournal.com/sg_ljers/1260911.html)
Top Left: No Smoking, No Dogs Allowed, No Littering, Please watch the gap
Bottom Right: No Chewing Gum Allowed, No Eating or Drinking, Beware of Pickpockets, and… Please feel free to jump onto the LRT track.
Funny conditions
Jul 30th
Just saw a couple of psychology-related comics, here are three I rather liked. They all have something to do with conditioning, two are about Pavlov‘s dogs, they’re probably funnier if you actually know the background I suppose.
Spider-Pig
Jul 26th
I caught the Simpsons Movie yesterday. It’s really pretty good – I thought it set itself up very well, but then realised that (being a movie) it had to advance the plot, so it was slightly less enjoyable while advancing the plot, but overall a really fun show!
I find myself hooked to the ‘Spider-Pig’ song that Homer sang in the movie, here’s the Spider-Pig trailer that contains some parts of it.
Go watch the movie already!
Makanbit
Jun 30th
Essentially I was bored and created a homage to Kevin earlier, based on the Facebook Pets application.
Would you like to feed the Makanbit?
Moneyfaces
Jun 10th
Louis:
well, most coin faces aren’t really the prettiest
or notes, for that matter
if i were the guy printing the money in venezuela, for example, i’ll be printing ms venezuela universe on the notes
but alas i am not
Cuifen:
yeah!!Louis:
(hey for all i know, they do)Cuifen:
why don’t they?
beauty queens are an important venezuelan export
they have beauty queen schools there
Seriously. Who actually likes seeing Yusof Ishak on the current Singaporean notes? The old ship series, and the bird series before that, were so much more aesthetically pleasing (to me).
I suspect they chose ol’ Yusof simply because we don’t produce supermodels of note. Alas!
