Hey guys, yes i know another blog post. I’m aiming to get out two to three blog posts per day to index better in google and to have some interesting stuff other than pictures of my chihuahua. So anyway here is the main story as described in the title.
Remember the parable about the boy who cried wolf? This is the machinima parody of the girl who cried chk chk boom. She became famous by inventing a fictitious story and lying on camera about a shooting in Sydney Australia.
Warning: If you haven’t played Left 4 Dead you may find this video disturbing as it contains graphic zombie violence. All characters and events - even any resemblance to people alive, dead or famous - are entirely fictional. No zombies were harmed during the making of this video.
Day one: Steve Jobs (right) with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on the day they founded the company, working the “Errol Flynn and a hobbit” look that was all the rage in ‘76. Note the intense glare and moustache: pre-requisites for any serious geeks looking to take over the Valley.
The Alan Sugar years: After the biggest stock flotation in history made the two Steves super-rich, they were now bona fide businessmen. And, as any MBA will tell you, that’s shorthand for “a snappy 1980s suit and eradication of any unsightly facial hair, please”.
Eagle-eyed fans continue to wonder whether Jobs is wearing any trousers with his suit: the enigmatic smile on the face of the Japanese woman featured on the Mac screen is giving nothing away.
Jobs, PI: As time marched on, the moustache made a comeback - rumours that he was going to ditch Silicon Valley for the San Fernando Valley proved unfounded.
Jobs not only sports the pioneering flannel look that dominated geekdom for years; he also shows lip-jewellery purloined from Tom Selleck’s Hawaii-based detective Thomas Magnum.
Out in the cold: After being ousted from the company he founded in 1985, Jobs went on to start another computer firm, NeXT. His frosty mental state is perhaps reflected by the austere attire: a moody, sleek black suit that showed he meant business - and is weirdly reminiscent of a French politician or a character from a Fellini film.
Back from the wilderness: Reinstated as the boss of Apple, Jobs 2.0 (shown here in 1998) emerged from hibernation with woodsman beard and hamster cheeks.
Perhaps, like George Best or Wayne Rooney going through a goalless spell, he refused to shave until he was able to drop the title of interim CEO. Perhaps he’d just been watching too many Grizzly Adams episodes.
Note the arrival of the signature black shirt and blue jeans combo; the classic Jobsian fashion statement.
Star Trek style: With the funky-looking iMac bringing lots of attention his way, Jobs clearly decided to opt for a futuristic sartorial style. (cue jokes: “Boom me up!”).
However, the high-necked white shirt and dark suit combo disappeared quickly - perhaps returned to the wardrobe department of a low-budget science fiction movie?
The veteran: With Apple’s success secured, Jobs has now adopted what can only be described as a war veteran look. Lean and mean with close-cropped hair and shadowy stubble, he is pimping himself as a technology ninja. Here, for example, he is demonstrating one of the 327 ways he can kill a man with an iPhone.
Ok, well it’s been a while since i’ve done a gaming blog post but i think it’s about god damn time.
Are you with bigpond, or iiNet. Well a user from the whirlpool forums has created an application which auto-adjusts your steam to download all requested content from iiNet quota free mirrors, or Bigpond quota free servers. This is a must for people who are capped or for people who want to download gigs upon gigs of content without having to worry about being capped / speed limited or financialy raped.
This will work 100% compared to other programs out there and steams own region filter as it uses windows inbuilt IPSec rules.
The only problems you will come across is if you do not run this with elevated permissions in Vista and W7 – The program will tell you however if this is not the case. So lets stop all this mucking around manually setting your download servers, and let us get this thang automated, big thanks goes out to whirlpools prime user Frey.
SANTA BARBARA, CA—During a search for evidence at the Neverland Valley Ranch, investigators discovered a corpse that has been identified as that of Michael Jackson, Santa Barbara police officials announced Tuesday.
“Coroners have officially pronounced Michael Jackson dead. From what we can tell, he died between 18 and 20 years ago,” forensic investigator Tim Holbrooke said. “We are not certain, at this time, who—or what—has been standing trial in that Santa Maria courthouse.”
According to Holbrooke, Jackson’s corpse was buried just inches below a stretch of the miniature-train tracks that run throughout Neverland. The largely desiccated corpse wore the remains of a red, zipper-covered leather jacket and a single glove.
“We positively identified the body as Jackson by his dental records and DNA,” Holbrooke said. “But even before we conducted a single forensic test, we began to suspect that that we’d uncovered the real Michael, and that the disturbing figure claiming to be Jackson was a fake.”
Holbrooke said that, although the corpse was in an advanced stage of decomposition, when investigators compared the body to early-career publicity photos of Jackson, they saw a striking resemblance in bone structure and facial features. But when they compared the body to photos taken after 1987, the resemblance was negligible.
“This discovery raises a lot of questions, but it also sheds light on a number of disturbing incidents,” Holbrooke said. “Frankly, Jackson had been acting pretty strange.”
Forensic experts and music critics are postulating that Jackson was dead before the release of the multi-platinum album Bad. Detectives are currently analyzing the lyrics to “Man In The Mirror” for any clues relating to a look-alike entity that many suspect murdered the youngest member of the Jackson 5 and assumed his identity.
“We believe that Neverland served as some sort of freakishly whimsical tomb constructed by Jackson’s killer,” Holbrooke said. “We also suspect that all of the iniquities that occurred on that ranch were the work of the imposter. I wouldn’t have ever thought it possible, but we are looking at a situation where the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old cancer patient is the tip of the iceberg.”
Holbrooke said that, while the living Jackson is the leading suspect in the murder investigation, he “could be another victim of some sort.”
“Basically, we have no idea what type of creature we are dealing with,” Holbrooke said.
A member of the investigative team that discovered Jackson’s body described the experience as “otherworldly.”
“As we neared the perimeter of Neverland, the dogs started whining and howling like crazy,” Santa Barbara County detective Frank Poeller said. “We had to pull them into the house. When we got to Jackson’s bedroom, one of them almost choked himself to death on his leash trying to get out through the window. Minutes later, the same dog led us to the corpse.”
A representative from Jackson’s self-created label, MJJ Productions, said he was not surprised to find out that the current Jackson is an imposter.
“When we were recording ‘Heal The World’ for Dangerous, I could tell something was terribly, terribly wrong,” MJJ manager Luke Allard said. “Michael didn’t seem like himself anymore. He’d demand bizarre food and sit for hours in a hyperbaric chamber. His appearance began to become more and more peculiar. Soon afterwards, he started wearing a mask and confiding in a chimpanzee.”
“I remember thinking, ‘This man has become a monster,’” Allard said. “If only I’d known how right I was.”
Allard said he thinks that the imposter broke ties with Jackson’s former friends and surrounded himself with children who were too young to notice the radical change.
Vanity Fair reporter Beth Pither visited Neverland in 1994.
“A strangely fearful staff member led me to Jackson, but ran off before I opened the door,” Pither said. “Standing there with my hand on an ice-cold doorknob, I heard strange, unnatural sounds—leathery wings flapping, a sorrowful wail, and loud hissing. A wave of dread passed through me as I opened the door, but all I found was Michael and some kids in pajamas eating ice cream and watching 101 Dalmatians.”
While their claims have not been corroborated, other Neverland visitors have reported that when when Jackson entered a room, lights flickered, faucets ran blood-red, and screams escaped from the walls.
To aid in the investigation, the FBI enlisted Dr. Richard Weingarden, a noted expert on the paranormal from UC Santa Barbara. After only two hours, Weingarden abandoned the project.
“The smell of sulfur, the decaying facial features, the bizarrely high-pitched voice—it sounds exactly like…” Weingarden said, trailing off. “I’m sure it’s nothing. Not a big deal. Nothing to be terrified about, certainly. I have to go. I’ve got a family.”
Thomas Sneddon, the prosecutor in Jackson’s child-molestation lawsuit, said it remains to be seen how the shocking discovery will affect the trial.
Megan Gustafson, who left her post as president of the Akron, OH Michael Jackson Fan Club after the singer was accused of molestation, offered a positive view of the grisly revelation.
“This is very disturbing news,” Gustafson said. “But to be honest, it’s kind of a relief too. Thriller and Off The Wall are really amazing records. Now I can pull them out of my ‘ruined by child abuse’ storage bin and start listening to them again.”
Keyboard Cat is an Internet meme. It consists of footage of “Fatso”, a cat (now deceased) owned by Charlie Schmidt of Spokane, Washington, “playing” an upbeat rhythm on an electronic keyboard. The clip has gained popularity by being appended to blooper and other viral videos as if to “play” that person offstage after the mistake or gaffe, usually accompanied with the title Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat or a variant. The first such video was created by Brad O’Farrell.
Keyboard Cat was further popularized by Stephen Colbert on May 18, 2009, during a “toss” with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. At the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, Andy Samberg’s opening monologue suggested that award winners whose speech went on too long would be played off with Keyboard Cat. In the upcoming Nintendo DS game, Scribblenauts, in which the player can summon numerous objects to assist in solving puzzles, Keyboard Cat appears as one of several possible Internet memes that can be called up in the game.The timing of the popularity of the Keyboard Cat meme with the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo Convention was considered partially responsible for Scribblenauts’ success during the convention.
Ok, well i’ve not done a blog post for some time now so i thought i’d freshen up the blog with one of the main videos that has been effecting my daily internet browsing since a few months back.
Originally created by Charlie Schmidt in a 54 second video placed on youtube. In which he holds a orange tabby through it’s cute little blue jumper and then proceeds to puppet it so it appears as if the cat was playing the tiny piano all by itself.
Either way this video was a hit and shortly after became one of the biggest memes known to date up there with dramatic chipmunk etc. So in a nutshell the meme produced by this original video was dubbed “Play Him Off Keyboard Cat” and to explain it in an easy to read manor i’ll number the steps.
Create or find a video which contains footage of someone failing very hard, or someone being really awesome.
Mix some background music, a good choice is the background track actually in the keyboard cat video.
Find the right moment to spring the keyboard cat into place to play off the person / thing / object which the meme would be focused around.
And there you have it, the meme “Play Him Off Keyboard Cat” explained, pulled apart and simplified!
Here are some of my favourite keyboard cat moments, you can find more here.
Sorry for my lack of blog posts. It’s been frieken ages since Rachael and I have relocated to our new home! (Photos Coming Soon)..
So, in a nutshell we signed up to iiNet about 48 days ago, with over eight different screw ups from iiNets side of things we have finally received our internets. I’ve never experienced a bigger fuck around than i have with iiNet. It was ridiculous as i had to call over seven different times to make sure they have the right address on file. They confirmed it was the right address and told me.. Chill it’s going to be 24 to 48 hours before your naked dsl will be connected.
So, here we were still sitting here without internet, this was a huge pain in the ass. Most of my money is made online grrr, it was getting to boiling point!
So, i called through about eight times each time asking to speak to a supervisor each phone jockey would say.. “Please hold sir, i’m passing you through now” and then they hang up. I’ve worked in the phone support industry and i know for a fact this is a super quick way to get yourself out of a long line of one client troubles. At the time i was their client and at the time i had so many incidents open in their system it was ridiculous.
I could tell every time i called up, these phone handlers would know exactly who i was, and how to handle the call. In a nut shell it was a pain in the ass.
So there we have it, today a Telstra technician has come out and told us that there was a fault at the DSLAM (Phone Exchange). Well this was not a surprise since i asked iiNet ages ago the question. “I’m not sure everything is connected right at the exchange”..
They assured me it was all connected fine, i knew it was not as i was still receiving a dial tone at home.. For you see naked DSL does not give you a dial tone.. IT’S NAKED BABY!!!
Lol…
Well anyways, iiNet beyond it’s poor installation service is a very good ISP, with shit loads of un-metered data and exclusive offers which no other ISP offers. So in no way am i calling iiNet shit.. I think their customer service and incident logging structures should get a little more attention / structure.
Anyways, next blog post will be photos of our new sexy house!!!
Well, in attempt to update the blog more here are some photos which i’ve just found in the sent history of my gmail account.
These photos originated from the Christmas gathering we had at mums place, where presents and small dogs were passed around. The dog in these pictures is called “Tinkerbell”…
Me and Rachael went for a drive around today in her car, no where in general just a drive. Anyways i thought i should take a shit load of photos whilst in the car cruising along the melbourne road ways.
So without further a Doopty Doo, here they are.
Also Rachael ate a funky curry tonight, got an alergic reaction and nearly died!… Ok, well she got a rash.. but still freaky as hell.. I was scared.
Yes i know it’s been ages since an actual blog, but here it is!
Recently I’ve been busy with Rachael trying to find a new place preferably in the inner city or on the outer suburbs. Anyways, i got shit loads done today at work including a few personal projects.
Today was Rachael and I’s anniversary so doing somthing special she made me a massive feast to come home to, that and i got us tickets to go see James Galea!
Photo below of the dinner Rachael made for me!
One was designing a cool logo for our corporate Joomla share point / file repository thingo, and the other was rasterbating huge photos of our heads above each of our work desks. So all in all it was a productive day with a lot done. Each portrait is place above the users desk which it belongs to!
Well, be sure to comment and i’ll be sure to keep blogging, heading out to this comedy show now guys. I’ll be sure to let you know how it goes!
