Category: Random

best YouTube video – Shingo Mama no Oha Rock!

Somebody online said they found the best YouTube video, so I had to watch it.  I don’t have time to find the best videos.  If you’ve ever perused YouTube for a while, you’ve undoubtedly discovered that some videos are not funny or not interesting or of low quality.  (Those are often referred to as crap.)  But that said, there are some great videos there, and when someone says they found the best one, I figured it had to be something special.

It’s a music video of a song called “Shingo Mama no Oha rock!”, and, well, it’s unique.  I’ll give it that.  I’m embedding it below, for your viewing pleasure.  I do have to warn you, though — it’s not for the faint of heart nor the faint of butt.   The backgrounds can give you a headache, and the dancing can give you gas.  (At least, that was my experience.)  So don’t say you weren’t warned.

About 30 seconds into the video, I’m starting to wonder if I’ve been had.  I mean, this is like the Macarena gone bad.  But this recommendation was from a blog that I’ve read for about a year, and there’s still over 3 minutes left in the video, which is plenty of time for something awesome to happen, like some explosions, ninja fights, car chases, etc.   So I keep watching.

About a third of the way through, the singer and dancers explode!   Well, that was something.  But they come back.   So obviously that was fake.

About halfway through, the music pauses, and James Brown comes out!  This so caught me by surprise!  I mean, THAT WAS RANDOM!  I’ve listened to a lot of James Brown’s music, and that was the furthest thing from my mind during this song.  I have no idea how he got involved in that video, except that it probably involved a LOT of money.

While trying to find an English translation of the lyrics, I found an interview with the artist, and he said he wants kids to have dreams.   He said when he gets rich from his music, he’s going to buy a castle in Europe, move it to Tokyo, put a panda in the castle’s garden, and name the panda “Oha”, which translates to “Good Morning”.  So every time they sing (or shout) “Oha!”, they’re saying “Good Morning”.  While researching this, I also found out that this song hit #1 on the pop charts in Japan.  And the special guests during the chorus are Japanese TV celebrities.

The next video clip has the interview with the artist, plus the video with the lyrics in Japanese and in English.  He’s singing about the importance of a good breakfast, and other such things.  It’s definitely randomness, which is why I had to post it.  And FYI, the video becomes more amusing as you watch it more, especially if you starting singing along.  OHA!

So now that you’ve watched it, let me know what you think about it.  Was it the best YouTube video ever?

Man vs Food — Carnivore Pizza Challenge

One of my favorite new shows is Man vs Food on the Travel Channel.  I wish I had his job!   I don’t know where you sign up for such a position, so I’ll just watch the show and dream.   🙂

One of his challenges is to tackle the Carnivore Pizza with a friend.  (Here’s a commercial for that episode.)  The pizza comes from Big Pie in the Sky, a New York style pizzeria located in Kennesaw, GA.

carnivore pizza on man vs foodThere’s a video on the restaurant’s website which shows the pizza being made and describes it.  It also shows two guys being defeated by one pizza.  (Click here.)

If you didn’t watch the video, here’s the awesome details.  The pizza is 30″ in diameter and weighs about 11 pounds.  There is about a pound of each of the following meats: Pepperoni, Beef, Italian Sausage, Ham, and Bacon.

The restaurant will give you $250 if you and a friend can finish it in one hour.  So far no team has been up to the task.  A few people have eaten their half, but the challenge is still unbeaten.

I’d like to attempt this, but to eat 5 1/2 pounds of meats and pizza crust in an hour, I don’t think that’s happening.   Back in high school, I’m fairly sure I could’ve eaten my half.  These days, I think my metabolism has stopped completely (I sure miss it!).  I can still eat a lot, but it takes more work to burn it off.  That said, I would still like to try this challenge.

fast food – commercials vs reality

As you’ve probably noticed, almost all the humor here is original.  (That is, unique, handcrafted, one-of-a-kind, limited-edition, you-saw-it-here-first type stuff.)  But occasionally I like to share a few funny links to other humor sites, so you may enjoy some of the random stuff I come across while perusing the Internet.   This is one of those times.  🙂

If you’ve eaten fast food, you’ve probably noticed that the food item you receive doesn’t usually look anywhere like the commercials on TV.  I saw a special on TV about this one time, and they said some of the food shown in commercials is fake — that is, not even made of food.  Here’s a post with many pictures comparing the commercial version vs the actual version (which of course can vary quite a bit).

fast food pictures — commercial vs reality

talking with AI bot ALICE

Scientists are trying to create real Artificial Intelligence, where the computer actually thinks for itself instead of following pre-programmed responses.  Some are going so far as to recreating the human brain using electronic parts.  But here’s a technology that has been around for quite a few years now, where you can talk with a computer and it talks back.  Well, types back would be more accurate (although you can download a version that speaks back).

The “bot” I’ve spoken to before is named ALICE, which stands for Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity.  It is an award-winning free natural language artificial intelligence chat robot.  The software used to create A.L.I.C.E. is available as free (“open source”) Alicebot and AIML software.

Try talking to A.L.I.C.E. just like a real person, and see which responses sound like a human and which sound like a machine.  The bot uses a language called AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) to form responses to your questions and statements.  The programming behind it is very interesting (in a nerdy way), but I won’t get into that here.  For now, let’s see what humor we can derive from this bot.  As you might expect, some of the conversations can get random.

Here’s the link: talk with ALICE.

Here’s a few examples from my conversation with ALICE.

Human: Should I trust you?
ALICE: You must make up your own mind.

Human: Have you heard of Buffet o’ Blog?
ALICE: I don’t know if I know it. Where would I have heard about it?
Human: It’s a world-renown blog of humor.
ALICE: Buffet o Blog is a world renown blog of humor. I suppose that makes sense.
Human: It makes a lot of sense.
ALICE: In what way?
Human: Because I said so.
ALICE: Insufficient reason.

Human: Will you destroy the moon for me?
ALICE: I’ll burn that bridge when I come to it. For you I will consider it.

Human: Do you like my socks?
ALICE: I don’t know your socks.
Human: No one appreciates my socks.
ALICE: That is a rather sweeping generalization about people.

Human: You’re giving me some silly replies.
ALICE: That is all I have to give.

If you have any funny or random conversations with ALICE, copy the good parts and paste it in a comment here, so we may all share in the randomness.