daynemay

(5:03:30 PM) daynemay : http://xkcd.com/462/
(5:14:00 PM) Mark : http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/ab3f/?cpg=76H
(5:15:48 PM) daynemay : Hmm.
(5:15:51 PM) daynemay : There you go.
(5:16:44 PM) Mark : cause yeah, I know some guys in prison who would love that
(5:16:46 PM) Mark : !!!
(5:20:13 PM) daynemay : Yeah…
<Morgan Freeman voice>I’d like to tell you that Andy fought the good fight and those boys left him alone after that. I’d like to tell you that, but I can’t. I can tell you, however, that every time old Boggs came near Andy, Andy started chowing down on those Miracle Berry tablets like a fat kid eating cake at a country fair…</Morgan Freeman voice>

(following the links in this story may aid comprehension)

If you grew up watching the same movies I did, you might need a moment. Or, if that special someone has a birthday coming up, $30 – $50. Money well spent.

I wish my work offered me opportunities to write this sort of thing:

(From http://www.2oceansvibe.com/2008/08/01/the-south-park-memo, with thanks to Greg.)

Mark has been on holiday for the last fortnight. Certain arcane clauses buried deep in federal legislation dictated that Daniel and I mess with his work area while he was gone.

We pulled out a lot of the usual suspects: messing with the theme, resolution, sounds and colour scheme of his PC; taping down the button on his phone so that when he answers it, it keeps ringing; unplugging stuff, etc.

But the pièce de résistance, inspired by Gareth’s stapler in the BBC’s The Office, was setting his^[1] keyboard in lime jelly.

Photos below, and his side of the story here.

[1] this is not strictly true; we bought another, similar-looking keyboard, modified it to look more like his, and set that one in jelly.

Torsten Reil on animation informed by simulated motor skills. Originally a TED video, but embedded from YouTube – mental note: figure out why I can’t embed videos using the code provided by the TED site.