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The kid has filled up a ton of glass bottles with the correct about of liquid to create the appropriate notes when tapped. He’s spaced the bottles apart and drives an RC Car past them, which taps them as it passes. This creates, what has to be, the most original version of the Super Mario Theme that I’ve ever heard!

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Now, we all know that a small fighter like this couldn’t have made it this far into space on it’s own – how did it get here and where is it now? Did the US Government disassemble it? What happened to it’s proton torpedoes? What about the pilot and it’s astromech droid.

I want answers people!!!!

Kineda, the site that I lost to in the 2007 Blogger’s Tournament (check out the stats that I posted back then ), has created a widget that uses your Technorati stats to gauge if you’re an A-List blogger – I’m not the type to be sucked into celebrity-style lists like this, but I’m in a feisty mood today According to the widget, here are the stats:

Your Results:

With 547 links in the last 180 days, Technorati places http://samanathon.com/ in the very high authority group.

That makes you a A-List Blogger!

I also thought this was interesting:

The Very High Authority Group [A-List Bloggers]
(500 or more blogs linking in the last 6 months)
In the final group we see what might be considered the blogging elite. This group, which represents more than 4,000 blogs, exhibits a radical shift in post frequency as well as blog age. Bloggers of this type have been at it longer – a year and a half on average – and post nearly twice a day, an increase in posting volume of over 100% from the previous group. Many of the blogs in this category, in fact, are about as old as Technorati and we’ve grown up together. Some of these are full-fledge professional enterprises that post many, many times per day and behave increasingly like our friends in the mainstream media. As has been widely reported, the impact of these bloggers on our cultures and democracies is increasingly dramatic.

It’s interesting because:

• This site is only eight months old – not a year and a half
• I did posts twice a day but have fallen to one lately
• Technorati has been around way longer then me!
• I am definitely not a “full-fledge professional enterprises”

So What Does It All Mean?

I guess it means that this hobby site is in a class with some big contenders! I know I could be doing a lot more to promote the site – I guess this means that I should! Also, I know that I must thank my good friend, Mr. Gary Lee – if he hadn’t been including me in all of his great memes, I wouldn’t have been favorited nearly as often as I have!

Thanks Gary!

General Motors doesn’t have a “help line” for people who don’t know how to drive, because people don’t buy cars like they buy computers – but imagine if they did…

Helpline:

“General Motors Helpline, how can I help you?”

Customer:

“I got in my car and closed the door, and nothing happened!”

Helpline:

“Did you put the key in the ignition and turn it?”

Customer:

“What’s an ignition?”

Helpline:

“It’s a starter motor that draws current from your battery and turns over the engine.”

Customer:

“Ignition? Motor? Battery? Engine? How come I have to know all of these technical terms just to use my car?”

Helpline:

“General Motors Helpline, how can I help you?”

Customer:

“My car ran fine for a week, and now it won’t go anywhere!”

Helpline:

“Is the gas tank empty?”

Customer:

“Huh? How do I know?”

Helpline:

“There’s a little gauge on the front panel, with a needle, and markings from ‘E’ to ‘F’. Where is the needle pointing?”

Customer:

“I see an ‘E’ but no ‘F’.”

Helpline:

“You see the ‘E’ and just to the right is the ‘F’.”

Customer:

“No, just to the right of the first ‘E’ is a ‘V’.”

Helpline:

“A ‘V’?!?”

Customer:

“Yeah, there’s a ‘C’, an ‘H’, the first ‘E’, then a ‘V’, followed by ‘R’, ‘O’, ‘L’ …”

Helpline:

“No, no, no sir! That’s the front of the car. When you sit behind the steering wheel, that’s the panel I’m talking about.”

Customer:

“That steering wheel thingy — Is that the round thing that honks the horn?”

Helpline:

“Yes, among other things.”

Customer:

“The needle’s pointing to ‘E’. What does that mean?”

Helpline:

“It means that you have to visit a gasoline vendor and purchase some more gasoline. You can install it yourself, or pay the vendor to install it for you.”

Customer:

“What? I paid $12,000 for this car! Now you tell me that I have to keep buying more components? I want a car that comes with everything built in!”

Helpline:

“General Motors Helpline, how can I help you?”

Customer:

“Your cars suck!”

Helpline:

“What’s wrong?”

Customer:

“It crashed, that’s what went wrong!”

Helpline:

“What were you doing?”

Customer:

“I wanted to go faster, so I pushed the accelerator pedal all the way to the floor. It worked for a while, and then it crashed — and now it won’t even start up!”

Helpline:

“I’m sorry, sir, but it’s your responsibility if you misuse the product.”

Customer:

“Misuse it? I was just following this damned manual of yours. It said to make the car go to put the transmission in ‘D’ and press the accelerator pedal. That’s exactly what I did — now the damn thing’s crashed.”

Helpline:

“Did you read the entire operator’s manual before operating the car sir?”

Customer:

“What? Of course I did! I told you I did EVERYTHING the manual said and it didn’t work!”

Helpline:

“Didn’t you attempt to slow down so you wouldn’t crash?”

Customer:

“How do you do THAT?”

Helpline:

“You said you read the entire manual, sir. It’s on page 14. The pedal next to the accelerator.”

Customer:

“Well, I don’t have all day to sit around and read this manual you know.”

Helpline:

“Of course not. What do you expect us to do about it?”

Customer:

“I want you to send me one of the latest versions that goes fast and won’t crash anymore!”

Helpline:

“General Motors Helpline, how can I help you?”

Customer:

“Hi! I just bought my first car, and I chose your car because it has automatic transmission, cruise control, power steering, power brakes, and power door locks.”

Helpline:

“Thanks for buying our car. How can I help you?”

Customer:

“How do I work it?”

Helpline:

“Do you know how to drive?”

Customer:

“Do I know how to what?”

Helpline:

“Do you know how to DRIVE?”

Customer:

“I’m not a technical person! I just want to go places in my car!”

The Online Warning Label Generator has ten different styles, 45 Warning Symbols and up to six lines of text – you can go crazy creating your own warning labels!! The possibilities really are limitless!

This is pretty fun! What crazy warning labels can you all come up with?!

It was really surprised how much I miss blogging! There are so many times throughout my day when I think about this blog and all of you! I really miss writing all of my hacks and tips articles, hopefully work will slow down here soon!!

So, I hope this post finds you all well and I hope to be back soon!

This Photoshop hilarity comes to you by a member of a Boba Fett prop-making site, Count Dookie. The topic of the thread was on creating a white Darth Vader costume and another board member posted this picture of a White Vader, which was taken at the 2005 San Diego Comic Con.

Commercials

Ikea Ad

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Adidas Ad

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GAP Ad

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Music Videos

Weapon Of Choice, Fatboy Slim

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Here is a list of Spike Jonze music videos.

Sabotage, Beastie Boys

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Root Down, Beastie Boys

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Praise You, Fatboy Slim

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Feature Films

Spike has involved more then a few movies, here are a couple that you might have heard of. For the the full list visit Spike Jonze’s IMDB page.

• Where the Wild Things Are
• Being John Malkovich
• Jackass Number Two
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• The Virgin Suicides

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Robot . . . ?

Robot Chicken is a stop motion, parody, sketch show on [Adult Swim]. The show uses toys from our youth and is hilarious!! Read more on Robot Chicken on Wikipedia.

More Information

There is a pretty good interview with the Robot Chicken production crew on Star Wars.com and and more information on the Robot Chicken Star Wars-themed Special.

In addition to having Lucasfilm’s blessing, George Lucas will voice his stop-motion counterpart! Some other noteable actors include:

• Conan O’Brien
• Seth MacFarlane
• Malcolm McDowell
• Hulk Hogan
• James Van Der Beek
• Robert Smigel
• Donald Faison
• Abraham Benrubi
• Breckin Meyer
• Joey Fatone.

I applogize for the poor video quality – I took this video with my phone (think about how odd that sentence sounds!).

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Last night was one of those nights were I was surfing Digg, I ran across a post and I nearly fell out of my chair from laughing out loud!! I saved the page as a picture. Make sure you start at the top of the image and scroll your way down. Click here to see the Digg page as I did.

The article was called Aerodynamic Dyslexia shows some people should not DIY!

In his comments, Bobby asked if I was “going to post a ‘Fro’ pic“ here on my site. Before I do, I want to tell you all that this picture is 100% real – it’s not a wig! I had the ‘Fro for about six month and the hair my was about seven inches long. My hair is so think that it grows out, not down.

Here you go, just keep in mind that this was a long time ago!

Notice I’m rock’n a 311 shirt – that’s because 311 ROCKS!
Check out Bobby’s site, there are some pretty funny pictures of us from long ago!

Details

There wasn’t anyone around when I took this picture, but I did find some information on the Kissmobile site:

Construction:
It took Prototype Source, Inc. of Santa Barbara, Calif., approximately six months to design and build the original HERSHEY’S KISSMOBILE Cruiser. The vehicle was completed in May 1997. The second HERSHEY’S KISSMOBILE Cruiser was completed in February 1999. The giant HERSHEY’S KISSES brand milk chocolates are made of fiberglass material.

HERSHEY’S KISSES brand milk chocolates Configuration:
HERSHEY’S KISSMOBILE Cruisers resemble three giant HERSHEY’S KISSES brand milk chocolates: a classic HERSHEY’S KISSES brand milk chocolate, a HERSHEY’S KISSES Brand SPECIAL DARK Chocolate and scattered HERSHEY’S KISSABLES Brand Chocolate Candies. Each KISSES shape is 8-feet tall.

HERSHEY’S KISSES brand milk chocolates Plumes:
4 feet long

Chassis Type:
HERSHEY’S KISSMOBILE Cruiser I is a GMC W-4, W-Series truck assembled in Janesville, WI. HERSHEY’S KISSMOBILE Cruiser II is a Chevrolet W-4, Cab-over 350 Vortec V-8.

Weight:
HERSHEY’S KISSMOBILE Cruiser I GVWR -13,250 lbs. HERSHEY’S KISSMOBILE Cruiser II GVWR-14,050 lbs.

Dimensions:
25-feet, 6-inches long | 11-feet, 6-inches tall | 8 feet wide

Engine Type:
GM’s Vortec 5700 V8 gas engine

Transmission:
4-speed automatic (GM 4L8OE)

Fuel Capacity:
38 gallons

Estimated Annual Mileage:
Each HERSHEY’S KISSMOBILE Cruiser will travel over 30,000 miles in 2007.

HERSHEY’S KISSMOBILE Cruiser Crew:
Two chocolate ambassadors per vehicle.

Audio/Video:
Each HERSHEY’S KISSMOBILE Cruiser is equipped with a 42-inch plasma flat-screen television, a DVD and sound system complete with karaoke.

The “Great KISSES Race,” an animated contest viewed on a video monitor, is installed in each HERSHEY’S KISSMOBILE Cruiser, along with the “Making of HERSHEY’S KISSES brand milk chocolates” video and other fun activities. The HERSHEY’S KISSMOBILE Cruiser has added PlayStation®2 SingStar™ Rocks! Kids of all ages can test their vocal skills along with Top 40 hit artist videos.

Storage:
Each HERSHEY’S KISSMOBILE Cruiser has the capacity to store 230,000 KISSES brand chocolates in its refrigerated compartment.

Most Unique Feature:
Hint – Can you smell the chocolate?

Frequent Visitor:
HERSHEY’S KISSES character (seen often at hospital visits…see our scrapbook!)

HERSHEY’S KISSMOBILE Cruiser Hotline:
1-888-499-KISS

1. My Family – I love my wife and kids, there is nothing more important to me then my girls! I love being married to my best friend and having daughters. They are the reason why I get up in the morning and the reason why I am still alive today – I LOVE YOU GIRLS!
2. Technology – I can’t explain why, but I am obsessed with anything tech! Computers, cars, ATM’s, talking dolls, garage door openers – EVERYTHING! I love hacking this stuff too: I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t want your toaster to operate by remote!!!
3. Cars/Speed – This one has gotten me into too much trouble in the past, and now with a family, I can’t afford to risk my live driving fast anymore but I love cars! I can tell you the make, model and year of a car from the headlights – at night.
4. Sushi – Must I explain?! I am a Sushi Nut, I can’t get enough!
5. Blogging – This one is a relatively new one for me but I am hooked! I love connecting with so many people and I love writing – which is odd because I hated it in school! I love this site because it’s pushing me to learn so much more then I ever have before: I am getting to know PHP and I have expanded my CSS knowledge a lot. Also, I am learning a lot of other Windows tips and tricks as I hack the Registry and write for you guys!

Alright, there’s my list. I’m tagging Stephen Fung, Derek Semmler, Bobs, Shawn Knight and Jon Lee. Blog on!

There is a new contest running here on Samanathon.com! This time, you get to Photoshop me into a funny scene! I will supply this source images of me and you get creative – just keep it clean: my kids view this site!

The Rules

• Photoshop me into a a picture, it can be funny, crazy, scary – anything but pr0n!
• Provide a link to my homepage, this page and to the I Saved Japan! post.
• Email Me when you have created a post on your site.
• Deadline is March 31, 2007 at 11:59MDT. Your email must be postmarked by then!
• Only one Photoshoped picture per entry – you can enter more then once, but you must treat each image as a separate entry: That’s a unique post on your site per image!
• Starting April 1, 2007 at 12:00am, there will be a voting system that will allow community to decide the winner. Voting will be open for one week. The image with the most votes will be the winner!

The Prize

A 1GB flash drive!

Source Images

Saman Source.zip

Some of you may have noticed that the deadline is the same as my Geek Bling contest, but they shouldn’t interfere with each other!

I am happy to announce that I have successfully defeated Godzilla. I apologize for the destruction of the Takashi Corporate Tower, District 51 firehouse, City Hall and all 172 nuclear power plants. Although there were many, many losses of life, you can rest calmly in your beds tonight knowing that The Terror is gone.

I have appointed myself as “Country Commander”. You can expect many new laws now that I am running the show.

You do not need to thank me.

Love,

Samathra

P.S. Here are some photos for your scrapbooks.

Step One:

Grab the nearest hole making device, we used a drill. You can use anything: spoon, gun, your teeth – whatever will work!

Step Two:

Break the circuit board. Not really necessary – but why not?! We used a combination of scissor kicks and the slam-against-concrete method.

Step Three:

Wire your chain. I used speaker wire. Why? WHY NOT?! The sheath on this wire was clear, the negative wire was silver colored and the positive was copper colored. Definitely added to the “Bling Factor”!! Notice that I used correct wire splicing technique – minus the soldering gun!

Step Four:

Show off your Geek Bling and getz yourself some mad-honeys yo!

Yeah, I’m hard-core. Believe it or not, I walked around Washington D.C. for two days wearing this!