Green Packets and Spam
Monkeys

A tourist walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display. While he was there, another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper, “I’ll have a C monkey please.”

The shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage at the side of the shop and took out a monkey. He fitted a collar and leash, handed to the customer,saying, “That’ll be $5,000.”

The customer paid and walked out with his monkey. Startled,the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said,”That was a very expensive monkey. Most of them are only a few hundred pounds. Why did it cost so much? “

The shopkeeper answered, “Ah,that monkey can program in C – very fast,tight code,no bugs,well worth the money.”

The tourist looked at a monkey in another cage. “Hey,that one’s even more expensive! $10,000! What does it do?”

“Oh,that one’s a C++ monkey; it can manage object-oriented programming,Visual C++, even some Java All the really useful stuff,” said the shopkeeper. The tourist looked around for a little longer and saw a third monkey in a cage of its own. The price tag around its neck read $50,000.The tourist gasped to the shopkeeper, “That one costs more than all the others put together! What on earth does it do?”

The shopkeeper replied, “Well, I haven’t actually seen it do anything, but it says it’s a project manager”.

- From “Clean, Funny Jokes” ( mariosalexandrou.com)

Quick, hit the turbo!

…self: While listening to music one day, I noticed my reflection in my LCD and thought it made an interesting comment on how we see ourselves when no one else is looking…. … this one is somewhat photoshopped. I started with just the webcam on my Laptop, and my desk light, and pulled out the background, adding a bit of light to my shoulder to hint at the edge of my dark shirt. I added shadows and brightened up my wedding band so as not to lose the definition. I then used the posterize texture to give it a somewhat painted look…

…self: While listening to music one day, I noticed my reflection in my LCD and thought it made an interesting comment on how we see ourselves when no one else is looking…. … this one is somewhat photoshopped. I started with just the webcam on my Laptop, and my desk light, and pulled out the background, adding a bit of light to my shoulder to hint at the edge of my dark shirt. I added shadows and brightened up my wedding band so as not to lose the definition. I then used the posterize texture to give it a somewhat painted look…

Are you Ken? In anticipation of the new Street Fighter IV release, here’s some interesting fun from Italy…

Perhaps the most interesting additions are “Calibration options for motion sensor devices” for the Dashboard and “Support for titles to store installation data on Storage Device for faster loading”…