I don’t know which is more questionably ingenious…
“Olympic Figure Farting” by Ghost+Cow Films:
(h/t to Joe Veix at Death and Taxes for both videos.)
In Case You Thought the Winter Olympics Weren’t Quite Silly Enough
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This Week in WTF, January 17, 2014 (UPDATED)
UPDATE (01/17/2014): Thanks to a busybody dear friend’s observation, I have updated the post title to reflect the fact that we are in a new year. Lousy Smarch…
![By Christy_Marie_as_Slave_Leia_at_San_Diego_Comic-Con_2006.jpg: Jason Scragz from Portland, Oregon, USA derivative work: Fanfwah [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) or CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://crypticphilosopher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/398px-Christy_Marie_as_Slave_Leia-199x300.jpg "By Christy_Marie_as_Slave_Leia_at_San_Diego_Comic-Con_2006.jpg: Jason Scragz from Portland, Oregon, USA derivative work: Fanfwah [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) or CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons")
Christy Marie as Slave Leia at San Diego Comic Con, 2006 (i.e. not a stripper in Atlanta)
Hoping to capitalize on DragonCon’s attendance, the proprietor of a new gentlemen’s club, Jabbu’s Hut, has announced the club’s grand opening to coincide with the fantasy and science fiction themed convention on Labor Day weekend.
“Of course we’d prefer to call it Jabba’s Hut,” said Steve Scizz, owner. “But the lawyers would open us up like a Hoth tauntaun and crawl inside.”
Scizz says his club will feature more than just girls dressed up as slave Leias, although there will be plenty of those, even if he calls them “Slave Laylas.” He plans to have his girls costumed across the full spectrum of fantasy, science fiction, and actual science.
“Just imagine getting a lap dance from sexy Marie Curie — non radioactive and in the public domain — or one of those hot night elves like the ones in WOW. We’ll have it all,” said Scizz.
Yes, of course anything posted on a site called the Atlanta Banana is certain to be satire (and it is), but that didn’t stop a few nerdbros from getting cautiously excited about it: Continue reading
Riding in Single-File, Because of Reasons
Most people like me (i.e. who probably spend more time on the internet than interacting with actual people) will recognize Bantha Pug, but it’s worth noting a winning comment about why they might ride in single-file (see below photoset):
I guess hiding the Tusken Raiders’ numbers was just an incidental benefit.
LEGO My House!
Hypothetical LEGO structures are much more fun for me now, as a grownup, than actual LEGOs. I learned this at LEGOLAND in San Diego a few years ago, as I stood impassively, or at least unimaginatively, in front of a quantity of LEGOs that, had I been 8-9 years old, might have inspired the early onset of puberty. (Don’t get me wrong: LEGOLAND was all kinds of awesome, but it just didn’t inspire youthful creativity in me the way it might have in the ’80s.)
LEGO technology has advanced considerably since the pinnacle of my LEGO constructions, which was around 1985-86. Back then, if you wanted a horse, you built a damn horse out of bricks. If you wanted a cave troll, you sure as shit didn’t have this:
© LEGO, via amazon.com
Anyway, in the realm of hypothetical LEGO models, I can’t think of anything cooler than my own house, built entirely out of LEGO bricks.
Okay, that’s not true. A full-scale LEGO model of the Star Destroyer Executor would be much, much cooler than my house.
![Kraken optional (Ochre Jelly [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], on Flickr)](http://crypticphilosopher.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/8512534670_a16f27ff6e.jpg "Ochre Jelly [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], on Flickr")
Kraken optional (Ochre Jelly [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], on Flickr)
As it currently stands, though, I’m stuck with the hypothetical model of my house.
I don’t have access to 11,647,240 LEGO pieces, nor to the roughly $1,164,724 I’d need to procure that many pieces. I’m definitely never getting that Star Destroyer, alas.
Photo credit: Cave troll © LEGO, via amazon.com; Release the KR-KN! by Ochre Jelly [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], on Flickr.
Monday Morning Cute: I sense much fear in you…….
The Robot Apocalypse begins here
This may be the coolest thing I have ever seen:
According to Ray Walters at Geek.com:
Morphex was created by Norwegian Engineer Kare Halvorsen who has a passion for creating hexapod robots in his spare time.
Probably one of his more impressive pieces of work, he has recently updated Morphex to not only have the ability to transform from a ball to a robot, but also to be able to roll about while in sphere form as illustrated in the video above.
To create the aforementioned locomotion, the six-legged robot uses the motors on one side of its body to push itself along while contracted into a ball. The result, while not optimal, is a method of travel that moves Morphex in an arc rather than a straight line. Because of the asymmetric design that results from the hexapod moving itself across the floor, it’s impossible right now to straighten itself out. Still though, this is a pretty impressive upgrade that Halvorsen has incorporated.
That’s pretty damn amazing, but something about this is troubling me….
Yup, that’s it.
Monday morning geek-out
Never get into life-threatening danger in front of a geek
Up yours, George Lucas
Thanks to Atrios for reminding us that this exists: The Star Wars Holiday Special.
I was four years old when it aired for the first and only time ever, and for the longest time I couldn’t quite remember if I imagined the whole thing after drinking some bad juice as a child.
Then I found it on ebay (VHS, of course). It took about six non-consecutive days to watch the whole thing, because I could only handle 20 minutes at a time. I urge you strongly to watch the five-minute clip linked above–it pretty much shows you everything you need to see, and you HAVE to stick it out to the end, when Carrie Fisher sings.
George Lucas supposedly hoped that this never see the light of day after its one airing. While it has its fans, I must say that is one decision by George Lucas I wholeheartedly support, at least in principle.
On the plus side, the special gave us Boba Fett for the first time.