Rhymenocerous

I learn all kinds of good things from my buddy Robin. The latest is a group called The Flight of the Conchords, a couple guys from New Zealand group who does funny songs. He turned me on to this site that has some of their videos. I'm checking them all out, but my favorite so far is the one called "hiphopapotamus vs. rhymenocerous".

Please, Hammer, don't hurt 'em

u cant touch this
Originally uploaded by emohoc.

The other morning I saw a small stopsign with a sticker that said "Hammer Time," so the boring sign no longer said "stop", but "stop, hammertime. "

It hit me so funny that I laughed about it all day. It hit me funny for a couple days, actually. I told people about it again today, two days later and for some reason decided to google for 'stop hammer time' and found that there are a lot of photos on flickr tagged with "hammertime."

It's amazing that there's a group of people doing this, taking pictures and tagging them with hammertime. the way some people (like me) decide to spend their time.

Is it hammertime? I think so.

But can he do combinations in Tekken?

While killing time during some software installs I came across this video of a chimp playing Ms. Pac Man. Amazing for a number of reasons... the chimp is good enough at Ms Pacman to clear a level, that the broadcast is in English and Japanese, that the primatologist was even able to get the grant to teach a chimp to play videogames.

Borat

Yesterday I went looking for the preview of the Borat Movie: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and was reminded of just how cool youtube is. There were hundreds of video clips of my main man Borat, including this shocking interview with Conan O'Brian. Without watching this clip I'd never know how much he likes Queen Latifah.

July 4th

I've been looking forward to July 4th for nearly a year. Our rooftop'll have a great view of all the fireworks tonight, and our friends are coming over for BBQ, potato salad, and the show. From what I hear the bay will be packed all day today. Aside from the nightmare of parking, I'm looking forward to seeing all the people flood the beaches. It's ten in the morning, and I can already hear the party from the beach. Let the fun begin! Things are already heating up, yesterday I saw a guy rollerblading around wearing nothing but a g-string and a paper mache watermelon head. He had painted a hot dog one one butt cheek and a flag on the other. My favorite was when he made his butt dance for everyone in the restaurant where we were eating. Even though it's only ten in the morning, I can already hear people partying at the beach. woo hoo! Bring on the fun!