Everyone’s favorite person - only backwards
I remember seeing this… oh, it was at least 4 or 5 years ago. Yeah, a long, long time. So it’s a bit dated. Anyway, it’s just plain hilarious. It’s a flash application which parodies a new Windows operating system called Windows RG (Really Good) and, well - you’ll see. I actually LOLed.
Here’s some other great photoshopped pictures from the same site with similar themes.
From the NY local news blog Gothamist:
Reader Austen took some photographs of an injured man being lifted from an Upper West Side construction site. A firefighter and the injured man, who is strapped on a board, is being hoisted by a crane to the ground level. The site is at Amsterdam and West 77th, where the Dakota stables once stood but where, after a fight with preservationists, condos will soon rise.
It’s unclear what caused the man’s injury, but the Department of Buildings has been trying to improve construction site safety by reaching out to workers (here’s the DOB’s construction safety site).
- “Afternoon Rescue at UWS Construction Site” at Gothamist.com
Yep, that’s my photo! I sent the photos in to Gothamist earlier this afternoon. We’ve had a front row seat to the demolition of the Dakota Stables, and now to this serious event that’s also a teensy bit cool just because of how creative the firemen were.
Apparently the guy broke his leg. But it seems like he may have broken some other stuff too, seeing as they had to lift him out with a crane. More pics here.
Yeah, I haven’t posted in a week. Yeah, I should’ve. Yeah, I know that if I really tried I could’ve. But only if I really tried. But I’ve been busy with homework and - uh… school stuff, and y’know like… homework and stuff.
Anyway, I decided to make a post because I have a couple of rules for my blog. Here they are, in no particular order:
And well, tommorow it will have been a week since I last posted. So here’s a post. What is it abou? I have no idea. I had no idea what to write, so I wrote this. Personal blogging rules. Fascinating. By the way, that was sarcastic. Or, instead of saying that you can just write “</sarcastic>”. The problem is, only people who know HTML get it.
OK, I’m rambling. Well, I made my post. Now what? I don’t know. I guess look at this picture of me from Photo Booth:
Ooooooh. Woow. It’s A M A Z I N G. Oooooooooh.
Anyway, I’ll try to post again this weekend. Who knows. Don’t worry, I’m still gonna post but right now it’s a tough time (between homework, required community service, working for neighbors, working for the Beacon magazine, watching good TV, checking my RSS feeds, and - oh yeah - homework it’s kinda hard to find time to blog. But I’ll keep trying.
Google turns 10 today! Well, sorta. The domain name was bought 10 years ago. Same thing. What’s funny is that the article is on Yahoo:
Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic center of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, books and videos.
On September 15, 1997 Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two 24 year-old Stanford University students, registered the domain name of “google.com.” The word is a variation of ‘googol,’ which refers to the number 10 to the power of 100, a term popularized by US mathematician Edward Kasner.
Page and Brin incorporated Google one year later, on September 7, 1998, in a household garage in northern California.
Of course, a year from now we’ll be celebrating Google’s real birthday.
Inspired by Mike’s post, I’ve decided to write a bit about 9/11 even though it’s already 9/12. I haven’t written about it on here before, so here it is:
I had just started 4th grade, and had gone to a regular day at school. Then, at around 10 most of the teachers had found out from other teachers they passed in the hallway and who whispered the news. I remember seeing my teacher, Laura find out that 2 planes had hit, which I think is really the turning point from “Accident, or attack?” to “Holy crap we’re under attack.”
Of course, no one told us kids anything. Kids started trickling out of the classrooms after that. The teachers said that we would find out why when we were picked up. I figured I would be picked up soon - I lived right across the street from school. I wasn’t. By lunch there were only about 8 kids in my class left (most of them, I notice now probably lived far away in Brooklyn) and me. I didn’t understand why I hadn’t picked up.
Now whenever I hear this song I’m gonna laugh, just thinking of this.
The most recent Joy of Tech comic is hilarious!
In my second lego movie from this summer, (here’s the first) the lego people revolt against their human rulers. It uses a combination of stop-motion pictures and video. And yes, I know I spelled “legos” wrong. Just wait until the end.
Again, the YouTube compression is kind of crummy so if you have a fast computer be sure to watch the hi-res quicktime version. Tell me your thoughts in the comments!
I also have 2 more movies in the making now: One lego, one not. Coming soon.
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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