Todd Terwilliger » youtube http://www.toddterwilliger.com Web designer and developer, technical writer, and general man about town. Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:17:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Prepare to be Shamwowed http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/2008/12/11/prepare-to-be-shamwowed/ http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/2008/12/11/prepare-to-be-shamwowed/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:03:00 +0000 Todd http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/?p=299 There are few people in this world who do not know, in the very marrow of their bones, the power of shamwow and do not tremble beneath its absorptive might. It’s a shammy, it’s a towel, it’s a sponge. It is madness.

Do not taunt the shamwow.

Yet, even from this Cthulhian fabric, from which even our souls (or spilled soda) cannot escape, comes something good: video parodies. Here, perhaps, is the best (or atleast my favorite for the moment):

I think the Jersey accent makes it. But it could be the reference to ball sweat. Ah, ball sweat.


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]]> There are few people in this world who do not know, in the very marrow of their bones, the power of shamwow and do not tremble beneath its absorptive might. It’s a shammy, it’s a towel, it’s a sponge. It is madness.

Do not taunt the shamwow.

Yet, even from this Cthulhian fabric, from which even our souls (or spilled soda) cannot escape, comes something good: video parodies. Here, perhaps, is the best (or atleast my favorite for the moment):

I think the Jersey accent makes it. But it could be the reference to ball sweat. Ah, ball sweat.


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]]> http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/2008/12/01/how-did-i-miss-this-enterprise-vs-star-destroyer-video/feed/ 0 New World Order, Same as Old World Order http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/2008/11/30/say-hello-to-the-new-world-order-same-as-the-old-world-order/ http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/2008/11/30/say-hello-to-the-new-world-order-same-as-the-old-world-order/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:46:00 +0000 Todd http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/?p=295 I watched Network yesterday as well as read the script as part of my winter scriptwriting initiative. The movie is impressively prescient on so many levels- from shock jocks to reality TV and beyond- but a particular speech I found particularly meaningful to our present. (I’ve quoted the script below, skip to the bottom to see it in glorious video).

Arthur Jensen:

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it, is that clear?! You think you have merely stopped a business deal — that is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity, it is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations! There are no peoples! There are no Russians. There are no Arabs! There are no third worlds! There is no West! There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars! petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars!, Reichmarks, rubles, rin, pounds and shekels! It is the international system of currency that determines the totality of life on this planet! That is the natural order of things today! That is the atomic, subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen, and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and A T and T and Dupont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state — Karl Marx? They pull out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories and minimax solutions and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably deter- mined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale! It has been since man crawled out of the slime, and our children, Mr. Beale, will live to see that perfect world in which there is no war and famine, oppression and brutality — one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

Here it is in video:

Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

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]]> I watched Network yesterday as well as read the script as part of my winter scriptwriting initiative. The movie is impressively prescient on so many levels- from shock jocks to reality TV and beyond- but a particular speech I found particularly meaningful to our present. (I’ve quoted the script below, skip to the bottom to see it in glorious video).

Arthur Jensen:

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it, is that clear?! You think you have merely stopped a business deal — that is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity, it is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations! There are no peoples! There are no Russians. There are no Arabs! There are no third worlds! There is no West! There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars! petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars!, Reichmarks, rubles, rin, pounds and shekels! It is the international system of currency that determines the totality of life on this planet! That is the natural order of things today! That is the atomic, subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen, and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and A T and T and Dupont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state — Karl Marx? They pull out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories and minimax solutions and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably deter- mined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale! It has been since man crawled out of the slime, and our children, Mr. Beale, will live to see that perfect world in which there is no war and famine, oppression and brutality — one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

Here it is in video:

Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

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]]> http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/2008/11/30/say-hello-to-the-new-world-order-same-as-the-old-world-order/feed/ 0 Wiped Out http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/2008/09/26/wiped-out/ http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/2008/09/26/wiped-out/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:30:00 +0000 Todd http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/?p=267 I was a huge found of WipeOut XL on the Playstation. However, since then I had drifted away from the series. It was therefore with much anticipation that I downloaded the brand new WipeOut HD from the PSN store. I was feeling the need, the need for speed.

I only had a chance to fire up a few races but I learned something valuable in the process: I stink at WipeOut HD. Whatever skills I had I let drift a long time ago. Out of three races, the best I finished was 6th (out of 8). My other finishes? 7th and 7th. Both times the 8th racer did not finish due to obliteration. Basically, I finished last, last, and then close to last. I can say this: I am trending upward. That’s gotta count for something, right? Don’t answer that.

It goes without question that the game is an absolute beauty to behold, hear, and play. At $19.95, it’s absolutely cheap for what it delivers in terms of quality and quantity, including online play. However, at my current skill level, online is the last place you’ll find me. I don’t need some mouthy 12 year old to tell me how much I suck. Not yet anyway. Queue the training montage!

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]]> I was a huge found of WipeOut XL on the Playstation. However, since then I had drifted away from the series. It was therefore with much anticipation that I downloaded the brand new WipeOut HD from the PSN store. I was feeling the need, the need for speed.

I only had a chance to fire up a few races but I learned something valuable in the process: I stink at WipeOut HD. Whatever skills I had I let drift a long time ago. Out of three races, the best I finished was 6th (out of 8). My other finishes? 7th and 7th. Both times the 8th racer did not finish due to obliteration. Basically, I finished last, last, and then close to last. I can say this: I am trending upward. That’s gotta count for something, right? Don’t answer that.

It goes without question that the game is an absolute beauty to behold, hear, and play. At $19.95, it’s absolutely cheap for what it delivers in terms of quality and quantity, including online play. However, at my current skill level, online is the last place you’ll find me. I don’t need some mouthy 12 year old to tell me how much I suck. Not yet anyway. Queue the training montage!

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