Look! Bigfoot!
Two of my co-workers were excitedly passing around an e-mail reprinting a quote from Chapter 9, Verse 11 of the Koran predicting that an enraged Eagle would cleanse the lands of Allah. Needless to say, the e-mail’s a hoax (as a quick online check confirmed), but they were pretty disappointed to discover so. I then had to inform them that no, neither Mister Rogers nor Captain Kangaroo were Navy Seals or Marine sharpshooters.
Hmmm… I think I need to make something good up for them and send it to them through an anonymous remailer. Any suggestions?
My anniversary was quite good… nice and quiet; raininva and I lead busy, interesting enough lives that a low-key evening counts as a welcome vacation these days. Invisifest was a lot of fun, too, though I discovered that it’s unwise to try to learn Amplitude while DDRMax is pounding away behind you. The XBox game with the full ‘Mech control panel was cool-looking, but I’d rather play it sometime when I can sit and actually learn what’s going on.
I’m almost finished (finally) Red Faction on the PS2; when I do, I can start the first episode of dot/Hack. Rain bought me all three for our anniversary!
I’m still not sure what my costumes will be this year for Halloween and Rising Star Emcee, though Jerry’s suggestion of a rather desperate Tokyo Civil Defense worker as my costume for the latter was pretty good. Less than six weeks to get them together…
Tags: conventions, costuming, id10t, videogames
Ooo! Ooo! Let’s do an opening video!
We play some footage of Tokyo getting stomped from (insert pretty much anything with a rubber monster here), including shots of tokyo cival defense worksers running about. Cut to you running onto stage in costume, and we have a video camera on you so people can see your face clearly. You go up to the podium, and I play a prerecorded opening message from you about how not to worry about the monsters, the science patrol is completely on top of the situation (explosion; scream) and there is nothting to feat (another scream) the masquerade and evening entertainment will go on as planned. Meanwhile your lips are moving along with the message, but clearly not saying quite the same thing. Obviously a bad doubing job. And at the end your lips just move for about 30 seconds, and your voice then finishes up (having recorded a 30 second pause) with “Thank you.”
Might be especially funny if the voice is calm and soothing, yet your arms and wildly flaying and your clearly upset…
Okay, here’s an idea for a chain mail – How about there’s this company, this big eeeevil megacorporation, and they suddenly make it so every possible domain name on the internet is all theirs, and every user who looks for a domain is suddenly whisked away to their site without permission!
Oh wait.
*big grin* Hmmm, I LIKE this… I can picture it pretty clearly. I think I need to start researching the appropriate uniform,
Yep – looks like they’re about to find out what the wrath of hundreds of highly-placed ‘net geeks is like, too.
>>reprinting a quote from Chapter 9, Verse 11 of the Koran predicting that an enraged Eagle would cleanse the lands of Allah.<<
So do these guys have any clue about what the Koran is all about? That would be like having a Biblical prophecy of a crescent moon cleansing the lands of God.
These are two somewhat clueless people. One of them even has a Middle Eastern background, and might be expected to know better.
Oh, I love it
It’s great!! Add more people running around behind him and falling over dead…
Well, I’m pretty certain I know who ONE of them is, based on the people I remember.
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I should ponder this… In the meantime, you might want to check out http://www.snopes.com/lost/lost.htm . Urban legends lacking ANY possible basis in fact! 😀
What, no mazer tanks? You gotta have a mazer tank.
The cannon would be such a nice accessory for the Yubbie.
We can do this. In fact, we can mesh it together with the one I was working on to make what I have even better.
Can you and Rain come up with raw footage of you doing the report, the slightly out of sync audio track, and end it with, “we now take you to our on-the-scene reporter”?
I may wind up burning a lot of dvd’s (no- it will still only be a minute or two long).