Archive | computers RSS feed for this section

Imponderable #4: Tokyo Japan

7 Jul

July 7, 2011

Japan strikes again

I’ve covered the cyberhug before. And while not everyone agrees with me, I still say Japan is nuts. If there is a wacky computer product or bizarre sex video the odds are it comes from Japan. Whether it is a game based on urinating, an elderly porn star, or an electronic French kiss, it is clear that the Japanese have some issues to work through.

I don’t see the attraction of tongue kissing my computer. Of course I also get out of my house and interact with real people from time to time so I may not be in the target audience for this thing.

I also worry about the possibility of electrocution.

The researchers are working to replicate an individual’s taste, breathing, and tongue moisture, but since they want to create “celebrity” kissing apps, will they have to replicate each star’s specific bad breath and body odor? Could we one day have the ability to experience Robert De Niro’s tobacco breath in our mouth? Lindsey Lohan’s stink after a drunken binge? And popular and funny she may be, but would you want to tongue-kiss Betty White? Through a computer or not, there’s a limit.

And this being Japan, the potential for fetish is endless. I won’t get into it but in Japan you can buy used panties from a vending machine. ‘Nuff said.

I can only wonder about who comes up with this, but I wonder more about the volunteer who tests this.

Who is the person who is waiting for the day they can stick a straw in his mouth, kiss his computer, and pretend it is Ed Asner?

The question is Imponderable.

Late Night Movie House of Crap: George Takei for socialsecurity.gov

5 Jul

July 5, 2011

Oh myyyy!

(Imagine that in your best George Takei impression.)

I thought I’d seen it all but I should have known better when talking about Star Trek. For every really bad piece of fanfic you stumble across online there are about ten thousand more you don’t find. For every horrible USS Enterprise “technical manual” on a bookstore shelf there are a hundred more on other shelves in other bookstores, and for every dreadful, badly-produced fanboy basement Star Trek video on youtube there are millions more wasting bandwidth all over the World Wide Web. So when I stumbled across another dreadful, badly-produced fanboy basement Star Trek video, it took something really special to make me stop and take notice.

Here it is.

Yes, that is George “Mr. Sulu” Takei and formerly-relevant actress Patty Duke in really bad Starfleet uniforms (just off enough to avoid a lawsuit) doing a Star Trek parody for Social Security. When did Sulu become so high-waisted?

I thought I’d seen it all but I should have known better when talking about Star Trek.

There are even more. If you can stand it, check out http://www.youtube.com/user/SocialSecurityOnline