Lots of Monkeys

Passing the time on songfight today. For the uninitiated, it’s an open invitation musical tournament. From Songfight.org:

Songfight.org posts a title, people make songs for that title, the songs are posted on this page, people decide which they like best, and vote for their favorite.

Pretty straightforward.

Listening to this week’s options, I’d have to lean towards the Blind Mime Ensemble. ExplodingCat and I discussed the choices and while The Def Author was a contender at one point, he’s just too derivative of MC Frontalot.

On purely musical aesthetics, the Blind Mime Ensemble gets our vote with their “love child of Portishead and The Violent Femmes” sound.

While you’re there, visit coverfight, which was interesting. Some A lot of the songs are unpolished, but it’s good to see creative juices flowing over songs that other people have written.

I’ve got a Nikon Coolpix 2500, an AipTek Mega PenCam, and an AipTek Pocket DV2. I’ve got a Canon AE-1 and a Kodak point and shoot as a film standby. There’s also a Logitech QuickCam Pro and a camera for my PalmPilot. Why in heaven’s name would I want another camera? Of course, I do want the Coolpix SQ. It’s just. . . It calls to me. It might be the brushed metal, or perhaps the idea of a 3.0 megapixel camera with a smaller form factor. That, and it uses the same memory standard and batteries as my current mainstay camera.

I’m also considering another AipTek, the PocketCam X. They haven’t done me wrong yet. All those PenCam fans can’t all be wrong. Hencio would probably agree with me, too. He does some amazing stuff with that camera. I just take pictures of friends on the sly and submit things to the Mirror Project.

update: Dang, forgot about the Game Boy Camera, too.

The Infinite Monkeys Protocol Suite (IMPS) and Weird Al Yankovic’s wedding albums.

That is a lot of super soakers.

So, I was thinking about how hot it is, and how, when I was younger, I used to have water gun fights with my friends. Those were good times. Then, of course, I did a search online for super soakers, and found this model, the Monster XL.

The thing needs a bipod. 1.25 gallons of water would be pretty damn heavy, so I guess that’s understandable. Searches on ebay show that there are only two left “in the wild” and none of the online retailers I found had one in stock.

Apparently, there’s quite a following for the Super Soaker line of toys, with people analyzing the soaking power and shot to pump ratios for every model that’s released. There’s even a “holy grail” of the weapons, the CPS 2000, which was discontinued due to safety reasons. Here’s a brief history.

It’s hot outside, and I don’t want to move. But running around spraying people with water sounds like a good idea.