DISQUS

Major WIN for the lolburner.

If i can noes hav cheezburger, i can has toasted marshmallo' plz?

Kthx.

Likely cause of premature Man burning.... some drug addled ner do well staggering about the playa thinking, "damn, at this rate i'll be all out of drugs by the time the burn comes around...... UNLESS....."

Does this mean he's going to start living in Burlingame and showering in flowershops?

Netflix Vs. going to the video store is EXACTLY the analogy I need... or is it metaphor... I forget which is which.

Believe it or not, I have not yet used a reader.

I will now.

Yay Common Craft, Chis Brogan (and Clintus - just because...)

You have to love the brown leather jacket.

It's like a black leather jacket only more individual, yet not quite as showbiz as the red Michael Jackson/Eddie Murphy leather jacket.

I, at one time, had a brown leather jacket.

The wall salutes you...

Personally, I'm recovering from my own party that started off civilised enough then descended into a Network2-style Guiter Hero orgy (my next door neighbors! rocking out!) and then Mrs Mark & another neighbor letting off fireworks in the middle of the road.

Someone should have called the cops...

In the interests of full disclosure, I'm nominated in YouTube's "best commentary" category. And you should vote for me.

As to whether YouTube are "copying" the vloggies, I think it's safe to say that (to date) YouTube and "vlogging" exist in two parallel universes with little crossover (other than, oh, say, myself - did I mention you should vote for me?)

Was there much YouTube derived content at the Vloggies last year? Will there be this year?

And did I mention, you should vote for me? You do have a YouTube account, right?

My superpower is free-associative linking of various high and lowbrow ideas into a simmering soup (supe?) of heroic hysterics, which I use to nourish my.... oh, look, a shiny thing. Where was I? Something about soap? Um... I appear to have slipped in some....

It's also my kryptonite.

Perhaps the reasons Libby lied are contained in one of the mysterious compartments in Dick Cheney's leg...

http://markdaycomedy.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/t...

My hangover is just about subsiding and it's Saturday...

Cheers!

Talk to you about concepts? You mean people aren't planning to put the Vulcan mind-grip on you with fully formed videos? They should be disqualified...

By jiminy, that form requires a lot of information.... I would say several beers worth, even....

It's easy to forget that Chris is the son of a simple Hungarian potato farmer. That he used to scarf down potatoes every morning for breakfast, before heading off for a day in the potato fields. That his first ttenage hijinks (a night spent "potato tipping") were fuelled by home made potato vodka. That his first sexual experience was... look, nevermind.

Who'd recognize his humble, "pomme de terre" roots as he jets off for another high-end 2.0 meeting?

Hardly anyone, until, of course, he whips out his famed 'Big Book of Potato Metaphors'

"People use their horns in this city like pepper on a potato."

"Hot? Like the way people use hot sauce on a potato."

"Messy? Like when a porn star sprays..."

I think I've said too much. *wink*

I need to get out of the yellow walled video bunker sometimes. It's starting to... smell like the fortress of solitude. On a side note, i do want to have superpowers that are like the Green Lanterns, only hair would shoot out of my head and take the form of whatever cartoonish object was most likely to stop the bad guys in their tracks. Or maybe I just fantasise about having hair...

I often find that the more subclauses, not to mention sidebars and tangents (oh look there goes another one), I can squeeze into a sentence, the better. Of course, my voice and my accent are sometimes inseperable. When someone tells me they love my accent, I have to wonder if they'd pay half as much attention if I didn't have one.
Then, when they tell me they "hear" it even when they're reading something I wrote (not everyone says this, but enough....) I figure I must be onto something.

What, exactly, remains to be seen.

Or heard.

(disclaimer: everyone has an accent - you just have to be in the right place for people to notice it)

I would love to believe that Netfix signed their own death warrant when they started choking the accounts of the high-volume users who evangelized the service to their friends and coworkers. That was a cruddy move, regardless of how much their power-users were costing them. Although, in truth, I can't really muster the energy to get get annoyed at them these days. And at the end of the day I like paying a flat fee for movies that I rip n' return. The one thing that keeps me with Netflix is the fact that I don't have to decide, disc by disc, movie by movie, whether I want to pay for them.

Anyway, if Netflix goes under, how else is the President going to keep up with the nation's viewing habits?

http://markdaycomedy.wordpress.com/2006/10/20/g...

The big question still goes unasked - can you put an iPhone in a blender and see it blend up like an iPod smoothie?

http://markdaycomedy.wordpress.com/2007/01/10/w...

Whether it's a Dell or a Mac, when your laptop bursts into flames, there can only be one question.... "who will save my... um.... 'special interest' files...."

http://markdaycomedy.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/d...

As for Apple glitches, they would be less of an issue if so much of the Apple mantra (as muttered by the Mac faithful) didn't revolve around the notion of superiority through simplicity. Would-be users may well find to their suprise that in some respects Mac products are sometimes just like other products. Glitchy.

Smart, pithy stand-up comedy. Not the kid of thing I'd watch over and over, so I don't want a $20 DVD. But I'd pay a couple of bucks to watch the kind of alt-comics you don't see so much on Comedy Central, especially if I knew the money was going directly to the comic in question. Would AOL be where I go to get it? Doubtful.

Second the instructional videos. The "how to..." set up a video blog at www.freevlog.org is awesome. I'd happily pay for a clear, video walk-through of some of Wordpress' more confusing set-up back-end stuff...

Cheers for spotting (& capturing) that because I missed it (although I'm stiull up there, which is cool...). I owe more to that can of yellow paint than I'll ever know. I can only pray that celebrities continue to screw up to a more or less weekly schedule....

Coffee mugs and mousepads!

http://www.cafepress.com/markdaycomedy

That wasn't really what you meant, was it?

Don't worry, the duckies guy is still the alpha duck of talking-to-yourself-in-the-house for funnies.

The bald guy is the Can't Believe It's Not Butter version.

Signed,

The bald guy

Perhaps Bill Watkins can help people extinguish the inevitable Dell laptop fires that all that porn will lead to. Possibly by following these simply safety tips...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_09HOkIEGXs

(language probably NSFW, but not porn either...)

These comments (and this video) were fueled by Laphroig...

http://markdaycomedy.wordpress.com/2006/10/20/g...


Being Scottish while pretending to deliver a message from the President of the United States of America is the kind of post-Zefrank make-your-own-media way forward that should have everyone reaching for their own video cameras.

That said, can I just mention how annoying the title feature is in iMovie compared to frumpy but less second-guessy Windows Movie Maker...

Perhaps Google were too busy loading up suitcases with $1.6 billion in used bills (and/or imaginary internet Monopoly money) to deal with the hassle of processing the micro-payments and mega-gratiutude of the sports racer inter-nation. D'ya think this was the first sudden spike in payment activity that Google payment has actually seen? The Show is probably the first internet "thing" I can see myself (and did see myself) coughing up cash for the way I do when my local jazz station has a pledge drive. Anyway, Google's gumpiness doesn't bode well for us on the dorkier end of the user-generated content ladder to the stars. And let's not forget the real reason Google gobbled YouTube (see post below for details...

http://markdaycomedy.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/t...

The large structure known as "the Belgian Waffle" (but 'officially' Uchronia) can be seen on my blog.

Ironically, while some people are lobbying on Tribe.net to have it referred to by its proper name, people are overwhelming finding my clip of it by searching 'belgian waffle +burning man' (I tagged it with official and unofficial names). Even in the wake of burning man, you can only control so much about the names people give your art...