Try Everything Once

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Ian Jay

on Aug. 20, 2007

…The main joke of this page being that while the Aztecs built an extremely technologically and culturally advanced civilization, they never actually got around to thinking up the wheel. This is true. You can look it up. Also, hey, guys!

Not much to report this week. Just realized I have only two more TEO updates left until I go off to college, so that's exciting (though updates might get a little bit more… sporadic once I'm there, just to give you guys fair warning). I also plan on going to this weird yet awesome Japanese monster movie-fixated concert/art show on Friday, the Ultimate Kaiju All-Star Barrage. If you're in the Baltimore area and you plan on coming, give me a shout-out and we'll meet up there or something. (For those of you who aren't in the area or are busy doing God knows what else on a perfectly nice Friday night, I'll probably be writing a LiveJournal entry about the event, too.)

Also… Endzone update this Friday. Also also… I'm sleeping in really late these days. Like, past noon. I'm staying up really late, too. My biological clock is stuck in a different time zone, I think.

Also also also, and in conclusion… A while back, this guy Marek Michalowski programmed a little spongy yellow robot, Keepon (developed by another guy named Hideki Kozima), to dance to the Spoon song "I Turn My Camera On". This video was the result. Eventually, this video got so popular that Marek and Hideki made another video of Keepon dancing, this time using Spoon's "Don't You Evah" and taking the robot up and down the streets of what I'm guessing is Tokyo. The band even make a cameo appearance in this one. Both the band and the robot are apparently going to reunite at the next Wired NextFest, which is sort of a tech expo thing put on by Wired Magazine. Either way, both videos are good watchin'.


Sincerely,

Ian Jay