At some point early Sunday morning, I woke up and read for while. Still wasn't sleepy so I put on the TV. It came on a station showing a movie version of the Reno 911 cops. I've not seen the movie and for some reason they were in Florida and two of them were on a beach by a gigantic beached whale. After calling in their colleagues and being unable to budge the whale, they blew it up. So what you ask? They clearly ripped off the most famous video downloaded of the pre-highspeed internet days, The Exploding Whale. I remember downloading this video, probably at 9600 bps. Check it out.
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I heard this quoted yesterday in the context of how thugs and felons can get away with anything in the NFL so long as they have great skills. In that context a sport's writer said: "If Jeffrey Dahmer could have run a 4:40, he'd have had an eating disorder." Had to share that one.
Google's April Fool joke invites you to join them in colonizing Mars. If you go to Classic Google follow the link to A Cool World: Enjoy a rosier future as a Virgle Pioneer. The video I embedded above is part of it. As Springsteen is said to have advised Bon Jovi, Larry and Sergie! Don't quit your day job.
Addendum: Ken Wall alerted us to this page that is collecting various April Fools Day webpages.
Must see video. One of my LTC colleagues saw this and posted about it on our webboard. I guarantee you'll laugh and send it on to others.
Comedian Don McMillan's routine called "Life After Death By Powerpoint."
For anyone who has worked a help desk, and coached technology newbies, luddites and technophobes, this is must see YouTube. Introducing the book
Another beautiful fall day is shaping up here in Tucson, this Sunday morning. I have jazz icon Gary Burton's Sirius radio program playing on the stereo and am online reading the NY Times. Sunday mornings you need something beyond the Daily Star. I was just in Pogue's Posts and came upon one worth sharing: "Blogging From Microsoft?." Take a look at the Microsoft staffer's blog entry "Features that didn't make the cut" that he links to and then watch Steve Ballmer "Dance Monkeyboy" on Google Video that someone added in a comment to Pogue's posting. Some good grins in both of these.
