Category Archives: Video Diversions

Lego Millenium Falcon

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Wilson knows I’m a slight LEGO geek, so he sent me this link of a time-lapsed video of someone building the LEGO Millenium Falcon (from Star Wars, Nikki).

The video is almost all I really wanted, I would have liked to make it myself, but I definitely don’t want the thing in my house forever. I just want to build these things once and then they can go away. I wonder if anybody else has that compulsion, maybe there’s a business to start there, renting huge LEGO sets to people. Inventory would be a bit of a problem….

Anyway, here you go, for your viewing amusement.

Pixar Visual In-Jokes

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Here’s a great and exhaustive look at the jokes and references that Pixar seemingly stuffs all of their movies full of.  Some of these I have noticed, but the attention to detail here is amazing.  Check it out.  I was particularly surprised by the Pizza Planet truck thing.  Apparently the pizza truck from Toy Story appears in every Pixar feature movie produced to date.  Way cool.  Of course this only makes sense or is interesting to you if you have kids and have watched these things over and over.  Or if you just like animated movies, which I do.

 Enjoy.

 I saw the link on Metafilter first.

Zombie folk song for the holidays

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Ok, so it has nothing to do with the holiday season, but how else can I have a reason to post a song I really meant to have up here weeks ago?

Re: Your Brains is a hilarious nerd folk song by Jonathon Coulton, an ode to the workplace zombie with note-perfect sarcasm:

All we want to do is eat your brains
We’re not unreasonable, I mean, no one’s gonna eat your eyes
All we want to do is eat your brains
We’re at an impasse here, maybe we should compromise:
If you open up the doors
We’ll all come inside and eat your brains

Gotta love that. The video is a mash up of silly zombie movies so expect to be nauseated by kitschy violence and gore, but otherwise, enjoy. The actual zombie part of the song is how it takes up residence inside your head and won’t leave. I was shoveling snow off the laneway, muttering it. Passersby ran away.

Colbert’s Running for President?

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You gotta love the balls it takes to make fun of every politician in the US in one fell swoop. Stephen Colbert announced that he is running for President, as a candidate for both parties. I have no idea what this means, but I expect a lot of internet, nerd, geek, and apathetic votes to go his way. It will probably be a brilliant send-up of the whole process at the very least.

Saw this on Metafilter first.

NMKY

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There’s just no way to explain this video, but I’ll try.

It’s unspeakably bad singing, in Finnish, with a chorus line of men simpering in workout attire circa 1975, covering the Village People, and somehow (as one YouTube commenter mentioned) making the Village People look like Metallica.

Enjoy.

Dog Day Morning

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Not too surprisingly I have a soft spot for dogs.  There’s nothing quite like the loyalty and love you get from a dog.  So, I saw a couple of articles today about dogs and thought I would share them.  First is an animal cruelty officer in Toronto who apparently saw a Rottweiler locked in a car on a hot day and arrested the animal’s owner.  He handcuffed the guy to his car, and I guess the bystanders got a little out of hand and started to lay a beating on the jerk.  This is not a problem, as far as I can see.  The problem is that the animal cruelty officer is suspended because of the incident.  Fittingly enough, he has been spending his free time visiting the Rottweiler at the vet’s office to see how he is recovering.  Personally, I think the guy deserved to get roughed up a little bit for leaving his dog in the car to the point that the dog may have brain damage.

Then I read an article about the dog soldiers in Iraq, it’s inspiring and had me almost choked up here at work (I’m such a frigging softy).  There are a lot of dogs in service there, 2000 in the entire forces, with demand for more all of the time.  They obviously are excellent at non-lethal crowd control, but of course they are most prized for their sniffers and bomb detection.  Naturally since they are leading patrols, they get hurt a lot, but are given first-rate medical care.

“They are cared for as well as any soldier,” insists Senior Airman Ronald A. Harden, a dog handler in Iraq.

A good read, sniff, sniff.

And, finally since I can’t bear to leave things on even a slightly sad note, here’s a nice puppy chaser from Wilson.  Have a look at this video and tell me that isn’t the frigging best puppy, hands down.