> KISS ANDY BAIO
This is family entertainment, not a video nasty.
> BUT ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE POV OF MICHAEL BYWATER
I don't know the word "acknowledge".
>MICHAEL BYWATER, I GET WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM
You can't see Michael Bywater here!
> OK, THEN, JUST KISS ANDY BAIO
This is family entertainment, not a video nasty.
Showing posts with label get lamp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label get lamp. Show all posts
Friday, April 18, 2008
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Lock your desks, the CCD kids are coming
[I know someone who went to Catholic school and this is what the nuns told them every Wednesday.]
[But this is about a different CCD, so just ignore that.]
BoingBoing linked to an independent movie recentlyish: Vanishing of the Bees, about CCD, or Colony Collapse Disorder (which the entire population of non-apiarists first learned about in Elizabeth Kolbert's NYer article from August).
Please be aware that we are extremely concerned about this. (RECALL! The word "bee" is in our URL!) So, setting aside for a moment the fact that the phrase "Vanishing of the Bees" was wishful thinking around October, we here at the RecBee would like to also draw everyone's attention to the Van-o-Bees site.
Except, wait, what fucking typeface is the movie logo in? "Papyrus"?
Fuck that, that's the typeface used by Arizona Iced Tea and the Crocodile Hunter (who died of getting stung) (not by bees, though) (still, BAD TASTE).
And the computer animation of bees in the trailer brings to mind that bee from the Nasonex commercial? Which we kind of don't want to be part of life on Earth anymore? Please Antonio Banderas stop doing them?
And also, do we actually need them to finish the movie when the NYTimes has already figured it out: “Israeli acute paralysis virus”. (Done with you, Israel! Time to leave the nest and learn to fly on your own! Seriously.)
So we reluctantly ask that you not send the money you've earmarked for helping people complete documentaries to the CCD people, and instead consider Jason Scott, who (I just read on waxy) has begun editing his Interactive Fiction documentary, "Get Lamp".
I don't even know if he wants your earmarked-for-documentaries money, I just know I've been excited about this for a while now, and while I can probably live without almonds or peaches or cucumbers or soybeans or pears or cherries or apples or raspberries or blackberries or cranberries or watermelons or cantaloupe or strawberries, I kind of want to find out what "Professor" Brian Moriarty's opinions on "stuff" is.
If in the movie he tells everyone to stop playing interactive fiction and instead to save the bees, though, back to plan A.
JASON SCOTT PLEASE TELL EVERYONE IF YOU WANT THEIR MONEY AND ALSO WHAT BRIAN MORIARTY WANTS US TO DO ABOUT THE BEES.
[But this is about a different CCD, so just ignore that.]
BoingBoing linked to an independent movie recentlyish: Vanishing of the Bees, about CCD, or Colony Collapse Disorder (which the entire population of non-apiarists first learned about in Elizabeth Kolbert's NYer article from August).
Please be aware that we are extremely concerned about this. (RECALL! The word "bee" is in our URL!) So, setting aside for a moment the fact that the phrase "Vanishing of the Bees" was wishful thinking around October, we here at the RecBee would like to also draw everyone's attention to the Van-o-Bees site.
Except, wait, what fucking typeface is the movie logo in? "Papyrus"?
Fuck that, that's the typeface used by Arizona Iced Tea and the Crocodile Hunter (who died of getting stung) (not by bees, though) (still, BAD TASTE).
And the computer animation of bees in the trailer brings to mind that bee from the Nasonex commercial? Which we kind of don't want to be part of life on Earth anymore? Please Antonio Banderas stop doing them?
And also, do we actually need them to finish the movie when the NYTimes has already figured it out: “Israeli acute paralysis virus”. (Done with you, Israel! Time to leave the nest and learn to fly on your own! Seriously.)
So we reluctantly ask that you not send the money you've earmarked for helping people complete documentaries to the CCD people, and instead consider Jason Scott, who (I just read on waxy) has begun editing his Interactive Fiction documentary, "Get Lamp".
I don't even know if he wants your earmarked-for-documentaries money, I just know I've been excited about this for a while now, and while I can probably live without almonds or peaches or cucumbers or soybeans or pears or cherries or apples or raspberries or blackberries or cranberries or watermelons or cantaloupe or strawberries, I kind of want to find out what "Professor" Brian Moriarty's opinions on "stuff" is.
If in the movie he tells everyone to stop playing interactive fiction and instead to save the bees, though, back to plan A.
JASON SCOTT PLEASE TELL EVERYONE IF YOU WANT THEIR MONEY AND ALSO WHAT BRIAN MORIARTY WANTS US TO DO ABOUT THE BEES.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Our 69,105th post
My son just turned two, but about six months ago, I told him “Sam, go into your room and get a book and bring it out here,” and he did it, and I thought at the time, “Wow, he’s as smart as an Infocom game.”
This morning, though, when I was putting on his diaper, he rolled over onto his stomach, and I said, “Sam, flip over” and I got no response, so I said, “Sam, flip over so I can change your diaper,” and I got no response, so I said, “Flip over, Sam,” and got no response, so finally I said, “Sam, roll over,” and he did, which means he’s actually only as smart as “King’s Quest”.
Still pretty good! Keep up the good work!
I’m the kind of “really excited” that is “unfortunate for everyone around me” about “Get Lamp”, the documentary about text adventures that Jason Scott is working on. Those games meant way too much to me when I was eleven and a half.
A year or so ago, I was reading a list of bugs/nonsensical responses that you could get from the games, and it made them seem more intelligent (like the game was countering my nonsense with its own nonsense) or more realistic (in the reality of the game when you put a bottle into a sack and then try to put the sack into the bottle, of course they would both disappear).
Here is my all-time favorite bug, from Zork III:
> DUNGEON MASTER, KILL ME WITH THE STAFF
"If you wish," he replies.
If you insist... Poof, you're dead!
**** The dungeon master has died ****
The dungeon master follows you.
Your sword has begun to glow very brightly.
Compare that to Monday:
> ATTEMPT TO RUN REAL PLAYER ON MY WORK COMPUTER
“An exception 06 has occurred at 0028:C1183ADC in VxD DiskTSD(03)” the computer replies.
If you insist... Poof, you blue screened!
**** Your computer has died****
Your monitor has begun to glow very brightly.
Tomorrow, I’m going to teach Sam that when someone says “Hello, Sailor” to him, he should respond with “Nothing happens here,” and that before we turn on his nightlight he should request that we “frotz” it.
I will not stop until he is as smart as “Cornerstone”, at which point Activision will pay all of his outstanding debt. That, plus the TAP 529 we started should give him a head start.
> GO SAM GO
This morning, though, when I was putting on his diaper, he rolled over onto his stomach, and I said, “Sam, flip over” and I got no response, so I said, “Sam, flip over so I can change your diaper,” and I got no response, so I said, “Flip over, Sam,” and got no response, so finally I said, “Sam, roll over,” and he did, which means he’s actually only as smart as “King’s Quest”.
Still pretty good! Keep up the good work!
I’m the kind of “really excited” that is “unfortunate for everyone around me” about “Get Lamp”, the documentary about text adventures that Jason Scott is working on. Those games meant way too much to me when I was eleven and a half.
A year or so ago, I was reading a list of bugs/nonsensical responses that you could get from the games, and it made them seem more intelligent (like the game was countering my nonsense with its own nonsense) or more realistic (in the reality of the game when you put a bottle into a sack and then try to put the sack into the bottle, of course they would both disappear).
Here is my all-time favorite bug, from Zork III:
> DUNGEON MASTER, KILL ME WITH THE STAFF
"If you wish," he replies.
If you insist... Poof, you're dead!
**** The dungeon master has died ****
The dungeon master follows you.
Your sword has begun to glow very brightly.
Compare that to Monday:
> ATTEMPT TO RUN REAL PLAYER ON MY WORK COMPUTER
“An exception 06 has occurred at 0028:C1183ADC in VxD DiskTSD(03)” the computer replies.
If you insist... Poof, you blue screened!
**** Your computer has died****
Your monitor has begun to glow very brightly.
Tomorrow, I’m going to teach Sam that when someone says “Hello, Sailor” to him, he should respond with “Nothing happens here,” and that before we turn on his nightlight he should request that we “frotz” it.
I will not stop until he is as smart as “Cornerstone”, at which point Activision will pay all of his outstanding debt. That, plus the TAP 529 we started should give him a head start.
> GO SAM GO
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