Everyone’s favorite person - only backwards
This is way old news, but for those of you who haven’t heard this song, you have to. It was supposed to be the first song on Weird Al’s most recent album, Straight Outta Lynwood but James Blunt’s agents stopped Weird Al from making it and it never appeared on the album.
Anyway, it’s been released online for free as an mp3, and it’s a great song!
[audio:http://media.thechrispirilloshow.com/mp3/yourepitiful.mp3]
Are these the new Nanos? 9 to 5 Mac thinks so. Engadget thinks not.
I think, real or not: UGLY! They’re like regular iPods, but somehow hideous. The color schemes are dull, and the beautiful thin look of the current iPod Nano is gone. If those are the new iPods, that’s fine. But please Apple: Don’t ruin the Nano line!
In my perfect world, Apple would keep the Nano’s generally as they are now, and release regular iPods with bigger screens, like these mock-ups I made:
I’ve finished my lego movie! It’s called “Bounty Hunter” and uses over 1,000 still shots and stop motion to make my lego dudes move like regular people.
It took about 3 days to film and edit, and is made up entirely of still shots. No videos were used in this movie. Enjoy!
The YouTube version is compressed, so you can download/watch a much higher quality 12MB quicktime version here.
Parts of the movie were inspired by movies like V for Vendetta (sword throwing), Star Wars (chase scene) and 300 (blood splatters).
So - I woke up this morning, went to the bathroom, got myself a bowl of cereal and sat down on the couch to watch last night’s Office re-run, fresh from 5 months ago… or was it? All was going well until I got to the part where they play The Office theme.
Something was wrong… They cut the theme down from 20 seconds to a mere 4! What used to be a nice montage of clips from The Office had turned into a fast, cut-down collection of notes and four shots of Scranton, Pennsylvania! This is the beginning of the end of The Office theme!
I remember them doing this when My Name is Earl started season 2, but it orinally had a minute-and-a-half entire storyline summarizing the first episode. Here, they’re cutting 15 perfectly fine seconds out of the show… for what? All Office fans know that the show’s theme is an essential part of the experience.
Before it is gone forever, here’s the full-length theme:
[audio:officetheme.mp3]
Hopefully these horrific events won’t continue once Season 4 starts. (Only 40 days!)
The Onion News Network is a hilarious video podcast done by the makers of the also hilarious newspaper. There’s a new episode, usually about a minute or two every 3 or so days that parodies the style and feel of news channels like CNN, and also politics in America.
It’s in a way very similar to The Onion Radio News which is less than a minute and released every day. I highly suggest watching/listening to a few episodes of both of these shows, and checking out theonion.com, AND picking up one of the (I think) monthly newspapers for free.
Check out one of the recent episodes of the Onion News Network:
Onion News Network Podcast (iTunes) | Onion Radio News (iTunes) | TheOnion.com
I can’t stand it anymore. Adobe is messed up. They’re stupid, dumb, and idiotic. They’ve only come out with universal versions of their fancy shmancy “Pro” products. (The regular Photoshop, After Effects, etc.)
Oh yeah! That’s great - if you have $650 to spare! I’m not going to pay one third of the price of my computer for a piece of software. No way. But it looks like that’s what Adobe wants us to do, because a year and a half after Apple announced their switch to Intel, they still haven’t made Photoshop Elements universal, meaning it runs super-slow on and any Mac purchased in the last year.
Sure, it runs. But paying $100 for a program that only performs at half-speed, and then $100 again for when the Universal version comes out is stupid. I guess that you could say I’m suffering from Photoshop withdrawal.
And I probably will be for the next year also. So Adobe had better hurry up with their universal applications, because I am very, very angry. But I guess Gimpshop will just have to for now….. at least it’s able to open .psd files. Actually, it probably would be a good thing if I got used to Gimpshop. It shouldn’t be too hard, and then I wouldn’t have to deal with any of this hassle anymore, and it’d be completely free….
About 50 photos from my (sorta) solo trip upstate this past weekend have now been uploaded to my flickr account!
The end of this vacation makes 4 vacations total this summer! Next up, Maine!
Austen Squarepants is a 15-year-old high school student and geek. He lives in New York City with his parents, Deri Weed and Ira Squarepants. He is interested in technology (particularly web design), filmmaking, and photography.
Netsua.com is his personal blog and website, where he writes about a variety of topics that interest him. The word "Netsua" is in fact Austen's name spelled backwards. It literally translates from gibberish to "Greatness on the level of Austen."
In addition to Netsua, Austen also co-hosts a technology podcast called the Teen Tech Buzz among other things.
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