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Archive for August 13th, 2006

Comedy and Pirate Parties

Posted by Xeno on August 13, 2006

Friday Night: Laughing to the point of hyperventilation. This Friday night I saw three stand up comedians at the Geery Theatre in Sacramento: Keith Lowell Jensen, Tapan Trivedi and Brent Weinbach. medium.jpg Comedy for me is hit and miss. I laugh mostly at the unexpected and frankly if you’ve seen a few comedy shows, you know what to expect. My friend Stephanie, who also does standup, and I were talking about this before the show. We expected jokes about: Sex, Race, Religion and Gay people. Sure enough. But when Weibach opened his act without a word by making out with his own hairy ankle, we knew we were in for something different. Weibach’s acting was so good that for most of the show I had no idea what his actual personality was. I was floored when he made fun of himself impersonating one characters while in another character by doing a bad impersonation of his impersionation from within another impersonation. Well worth the price of admission… and this is coming from someone who sees a lot of amazing things every day… on YouTube! (like Frank Caliendo impersonating Bush)

Saturday Night: Pirates Shakin’ the Booty. The TFO wrap party had a pirate theme so we got dressed up and checked that out Saturday night. Fun! Amazing house. They had two home theatres, one by the pool. One was showing Night of the Lepus, a film about rabbits with Deforest Kelly (Doctor “Bones” McCoy from Star Trek). Here is a photo of part of my costume:

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Dry Ice Bombs and YouTube

Posted by Xeno on August 13, 2006

There are perhaps 100 different videos showing “dry Ice bombs” on sites like YouTube. Fun stuff, but don’t be stupid. Some kids have already been seriously injured. Luckily YouTube removed this one where a kid straps a dry ice bomb to his head.

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“Never underestimate how fast a bottle will explode, as it could have unseen weaknesses.” - wwwavenger

“…A friend of mine took a chunk in the -neck-, they had to take him to ER to get it out… his ass was lucky it didn’t go in very deep…” - Kirzen

“empty two litre soda bottle 69 cents.
Duct tape and helmet $3.00
Dry ice $1.00
Almost blowing off your dumb friends head off at the expense of online laughs…. PRICELESS!”

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Putting Words in Other People’s Mouths

Posted by Xeno on August 13, 2006

This video on YouTube animates a still picture of a human face. Interesting technology. I started thinking of the political ramifications. You could make a video puppet out of anyone, dead or alive. Freaky. I found this article which says they can also use video as the source for even more realistic results.

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Can they now also take a real-time video of anyone and change a few words here and there?

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