The Making of Volkswagen’s The Force Commercial
I still think the commercial is AWESOME and these out takes from it our GREAT!
Apparently the kid that played Darth Vader in the commercial got the opportunity to meet James Earl Jones (who was the voice of Vader).
SNOWPOCALYPSE 2011!!!
It snowed last night, not much but yes the ground is white and schools are closed. There is probably two inches or so on grassy areas and I did have to use a broom to clear the snow off my windshield this AM – a pain in the ass yes, but not the end of the world and certainly not a SNOWPOCALYPSE, SNOWICANE, WINTER BLAST, or REPENT NOW THE END IS NEAR event the local news folks make it out to be whenever a bit of ice falls from the sky.
The roads were in pretty good shape but work still had a 2 hour delay and everyone on the Interstate has completely forgotten how to drive. Here is an inclement weather driving tip for you – hang up the god damn cell phone and pay attention to what the hell you are doing!
The first part of this Dodge commercial give a pretty fair idea of how things go around here when the weatherman even mentions snow (that’s right it just takes a mention). They started closing and delaying things last night well before the first snow flake fell.
Have a great day!
Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Watch it till the end.
A good laugh is a great way to start the morning.
Mr. Green/Dr. House – You’re the best ever…
Some folks in the office were talking about the House commercial that was shown during the Super Bowl last night, they didn’t get where they were going with it or what it meant.
Well here you go…
Here is the commercial for the TV Show House shown during the Super Bowl (2011)…
And here is the classic (1979) Coca-Cola commercial the idea is most likely (like there is any doubt) based on…
I reckon that are a lot of people that probably don’t remember – have never seen – the classic 1979 Coca-Cola commercial with Mean Joe Green.
Best Super Bowl Halftime Facebook Post Ever!
One of my friends from back in the day posted this during the half time show and it had me rolling.
“3 robots and a hooker?? What is going on, I was watching a football game?”
The halftime show pretty much sucked, there was a short glimmer of hope when Slash appeared but all hope was soon lost when Fergie made a failed attempt to sign/scream/whatever she does a Guns and Roses tune Sweet Child O’ Mine. (It was terrible!)
The commercial of the night – most definitely the Volkswagen one with the kid dressed as Darth Vader.
Pepsi Max had a couple of great commercials also, like this one:
And this one by Teleflora with Faith Hill was also great:
Super Bowl XLV Technology
I can’t say that I care too much about the teams in the “big” game, or the “big” game itself (except for maybe the commercials), I don’t generally care too much about football but this is some seriously cool geek Stuff!
Check out the video tour of the IT infrastructure that supports Cowboys Stadium.
A couple few cool facts from the article.
…there are 884 Cisco wireless access points (AP) scattered around, and more than 70 different wiring closets containing more than 40,000 wired ports.
There is more than 8 million feet of Ethernet cabling, and 260 miles of fiber to support all the connections, and more than 100T-bytes of data storage too.
…enough cellular horsepower to support a hundred thousand individual phone conversations and video uploads concurrently.
The old data center had more than 600 aging physical servers, which were converted to 127 virtual machines running on 16 different HP blade servers using VMware.
Use the Farfegnugen…
Couple of great tweets for the week
Just a couple/few great tweets that have rolled by on my twitter feed.
From @kix1979 to @jasonboche – What makes it a super app, a cape or tights?
From @nrr – An IPv4 address walks into a bar: “A strong CIDR please! I’m exhausted.”
and the best this week (so far)
From @DeathStarPR – #thingsweallhate People who are always negative. Yes, we blew up a few planets, but there are HEAPS more we HAVEN’T blown up. #StarWars
Enjoy!
Battle: Los Angeles
Battle: Los Angeles
In theaters March 11, 2011
Battle: Los Angeles website is here – http://www.battlela.com/
Free Snowboards!!! That’ll Learn You…
This is great!!! I saw this ad around twitter, didn’t think it was real. Finding out the back story to it made my day! Take care of your customers or they may just take care of you.
Oh look the offer has been extended to March 2011!!! Just ask for Fatty, Tattooey, Fuzzy, or Shorty – man that is great stuff!
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