You know that feeling you get when you see a guy hauling ass down the street in his bitchin’ automobile? You immediately start thing about how sexy he is and you can’t stop wondering what he would be like in…[insert the sound of a record scratching]
Uh, yeah so not what happens. What you’re really thinking is “What an idiot”. Then you probably shake your head wondering exactly what is he trying to say to the world by leaving clouds of smoke and treadmarks in his wake. Well, the Aussies have read our minds and put it all in an anti-speeding PSA and while most PSAs are stodgy and serious, this one is actually hilarious.
We always wondered why Waldo only hangs around in books with other skinny-legged, bespectacled people wearing red stripes: wizards, vikings, gondola drivers, all in stripes. All going about their business looking just like Waldo. Waldo’s clearly trying to blend. Traveling through time unnoticed, collecting passport stamps and suitcase stickers. Totally normal, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. You are about to find out what he’s hiding from.
In case you’ve been following the campaign song selection video series, the winning song is: Celine Dion- You and I. Ew. We’re not even posting the video. Celine Dion? Worst. Choice. Ever. She should have picked the Journey song. Just sayin’.
Ah, Monday, that gloriously sucky intro to the crazy work week of a day. You’re all tucked in at your cubicle, your lunch in is the fridge and then boom, it hits you, maybe work feels crazy because you’re not even supposed to be there. Not in that cubicle, not in that building, not next to that crazy gum smacking admin. And not only are you in the wrong building, it’s quite possible that you’re in the wrong galaxy.
This morning we awoke feeling something was amiss so naturally we turned to the internets for help and as usual the WWW Gods were able to help us get to the root of the problem. We found our real identity, our true calling if you will. And you can find yours too! Just take this quiz and when you are shown your true destiny, simply walk into your boss’s office and look him/her in the eye and say “I can no longer work here as I am Luke Skywalker and I have a higher calling.”
Keep in mind your results may vary, you might end up saying that you are in fact Chewbacca or Boba Fett. Whatever. The point is, you are in the wrong building, get the hell out of there and get in the game! We’ve got work to do. Note: If you end up being Jar Jar Binks, please accept our condolences. Also you might just want to skip the whole walking into the bosses office part and just leave.
Whatever, anyway. We can’t stop watching this. Yes it’s 11 months old, but that doesn’t make it any less good. And in the 11 months since it was posted, we still can’t figure out the narrator’s accent.
We like toys. We often think fondly of our childhood toys and wish that we could bring them into our adult world to be a part of our daily lives. If you’re anything like us, you spend a significant amount of time on your computer. <digress> If you don’t, well then you nothing like us. Not really, you see that logic doesn’t really work, you could be like us in other ways that don’t involve the computer. </digress>.
So we though it would be fun to combine the love of the childhood toys with the agony of being chained like an indentured slave to the desktop. Play With Your Toys is a new layercake feature that helps you bring virtual version of your childhood bedroom right to your desktop!!!
We’ll start with our favorite go anywhere toy that ironically, probably did more harm to our self esteem than being sent to the “special” PE class to fly kites. What? Kite flying is totally acceptable strenuous physical activity.
The Etch a Sketch
From the looks of our creation, you can see where the self esteem might have been damaged. We sucked. We still do, since we made that drawing just one month ago. Other kids didn’t suck, in fact they could make circles with their Etch a Sketch and draw entire picturesque scenes from the Flintstones their favorite cartoons. Stuff like this:
That lovely piece by Etcha can be seen on Flickr by clicking the pic. See more Etch a Sketch self esteem deflaters on the EtchaSketch flickr group which is basically just a bunch of really clever people who are really good at twisting nobs and making us feel bad about our artistic shortcomings.
Here comes the play with your toys under your bosses nose part. You can play with your very own virtual Etch a Sketch here, just click the game image and you’ll be whisked away to a place where unicor..ok, just to a place where you can practice your Etch a Sketch skillz.
This is insane and the reason we no longer play with our Etch a Sketch. Instead we’ve taped a black and white photo of the Golden Gate Bridge into our Etch a Sketch and are trying to pass it off as our own work. No really, we did.
