It’s important to remember when learning to wake board, when at high speeds you do not allow the front of your board to catch on the water which you are supposed to be gliding across. Yes.. that is me; the lake, treating me at first like a wakeboarder.. then in the blink of an eye the lake treats me like a bowling ball. It should be particularly enjoyable to replay the first two seconds over and over.
Last summer, my roommate had a website for “do it yourself” lifestyle projects, DIYHAPPY.COM. He was invited out to Oreilly Media’s publication Make Magazine’s Maker Faire (yes they spell it like that). I tagged along and had a great time hanging out, and enjoyed looking at all the home-made and D.I.Y. projects which so many people had devoted a lot of time and money to.
One of my favorite places at the Maker Faire was the surprisingly store. Make Magazine’s best of the best projects had something to sell there, including some Do It Yourself kits for various popular projects. I bought an LED based kit called a “Mini POV”. The only other project I really wanted, was a TV B Gone kit that helps you build an infra-red TV remote with one function: Turning off all TV’s in a full infra red spectrum (able to turn off pretty much any and all TV’s that uses an IR remote). This awesome little guy is small- and can be hidden in your hat or…. beard if you so please. Regardless, it could be turned into quite the annoying business disruption device if some evil prankster decided to use it at let say… CES? The one place hundreds of booths and company displays s rely heavily on their TV’s to help convey their business/products/services.
Enter Gizmodo. Get over to see the video while it’s hot, but the Gizmodo CES 2008 TV Prank is one hilarious way of keeping yourself entertained while walking around the mass conference center conglomeration that the Consumer Electronic Show has become. Gizmodo video recorded themselves pulling this prank on various booths, and the video can be seen on their website at the post which I linked to above. I say get it while it’s hot- because if I can imagine that if any of these disgruntled companies catch wind- they very well might take legal action considering the investment they potentially lost. Let’s also not forget that CES is somewhat- a mass display and distribution of electronics companies products: Lots of TV’s to promote and lots of TV’s used to prmote - pretty much anyones who’s mass line of TV’s gets turned off randomly, then looses credibility pretty quick. It’s an Electronics industry trade show, when the electronics malfunction…… it was probably Gizmodo.
Side Note: I really considered going this year to C.E.S.- but ran into one major drawback; how unbelievably sick I got from going from booth to booth and seeing mass horde’s of iPod Accessory companies. Everyone; their dog; and their dog’s previous owner’s best friends aunt started an iPod accessory company and got a booth at CES in the hopes to stand out and offer something new. “But we’re different than the other guys” like every MLM up and down I-15 in Utah county says. Stupid “reverse funnel” system is still a pyramid scheme.
Awesome.
These three kids, in a band named “Corpreal” are from Illinois. Each one has a different assignment in the band, but they all play on the same guitar. This song is called “All We Got”. Found this on Neatorama and think they are pretty cool.
They could easily have used other instruments to play the parts, no doubt. Seriously, Corpreal filmed this with a drum set in the back ground, but it’s original.
Here is a list of my favorite pranks that have been pulled in the TV show The Office. I have used some of these as inspiration for things me and my co-workers have done in the office where I work. The hardest one to pull off for me thus far and… well really the only one was The Office Jello Prank that I did using a co-workers stapler. These pranks and videos to follow these pranks are in no particular order.
* The Faxes from the future. Before Jim leaves the Scranton office, he takes a bunch of Dwight’s stationary. From his new office, Jim sends Dwight faxes on this stationary and makes him believe that the future version of himself figured out a way to send faxes back in time. The future Dwight (actually Jim) sends Dwight a fax that says “Dwight, At 8 AM today someone poisons the coffee. Do NOT drink the Coffee. More instructions to follow. Cordially, Future Dwight”. Obviously an idiot saturated with the idea that he could actually eventually send faxes back in time, tackles Stanley before he gets the chance to drink any coffee.
* Jim puts a macro on Dwight’s computer to type “diapers” instead of when Dwight tries to type his name.
* Jim puts Andy’s phone in the ceiling and calls it, completely confusing Andy as to what could have happened to it. It was an awesome prank. A co-worker did this to another co-worker the day after the episode aired.
* While Michael Scott is away for vacation to Jamaica, Jim runs an office meeting. Dwight busts out a tape recorder because apparently Michael wants transcripts of the meetings. Obviously annoyed by the mere existence of Dwight, Jim starts saying things to be recorded that aren’t actually happening in the meeting. “He’s got a knife! Let the record show that Dwight K Shrute is now completely nude holding a plastic knife to Stanley’s neck.”
* The CIA Letters. Jim and Pam send Dwight letters with CIA letterhead saying they are interested in recruiting him for a top secret mission. In order to qualify, he must tell the CIA every secret he promised to never tell anyone. “Secret: Last year my boss Michael Scott took a day off. He said it was because he was sick but really it was to go to Magic Camp.” Afterwards, Jim as the CIA tells Dwight that he is needed at Langley and to meet for a helicopter pick up on top of a building. The Office writers were pretty creative about this one. Especially when Jim sends Dwight a text saying “You have been comprised. Abort mission, destroy phone.” which follows Dwight actually tossing his phone off the building.
* The Vending Machine Prank. Jim takes may of Dwight’s belongings like his name plate, stapler, pen cup and his wallet and has the vending machine guy put them inside the machine, so Dwight Schrute actually has to buy them back with a sack of nickels Jim gives him. One by one.. nickel by nickel.
Last but not least at all:
The Office Jello Prank
Jim puts Dwights stapler in Jello. This may be the original prank that started the all the pranks they have done on The Office. The writers knew it was a huge it- and frigging hilarious. So they have increased them more and more often. This is also the prank I did to a co-worker a little while back. The Office Jello Prank was a hit, and I documented the whole thing with amazingly crappy photos on the link I provided.
Don’t even act like I don’t have a ninja video with Dave and Sam, AND it has almost 200 views on youtube.
Your mom looks like Voldemort. Burn.
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