Frank Mickadeit, a columnist for the OC Register, is staying in a monkey cage at the Santa Ana Zoo in California. He's been there three days, and is scheduled to come out at 4PM PDT (7PM EDT) today. Mickadeit joined the monkeys as a human exhibit. The sign attached labeled his species as Columnist horribilis. While they observed him, Mickadeit in turn observed the zoo visitors.
The zoo has a live webcam trained on their "human exhibit." Link
(Image credit: Paul Bersebach, OC Register)
For seven hours, I was entertained and, I hope, moderately entertaining, as a parade of moms with strollers, grandparents with charges, art students from Santa Ana College, biology students from Fullerton College, friends, regular readers and media types wandered up.
If they had no idea a human being was on loan from the Register, the look on their faces said, "What the ..." If they did know, they wanted to know, "Why the ..."
"Three days, and you're getting paid?" one woman asked, as I regaled onlookers with a variety of tricks that included blowing smoke rings and figuring out how to extract tiny bits of papaya from a hollow ball my keeper tossed at me.
"Well, uh, yeah, I guess I am getting paid," I replied indignantly.
"Paid just to sit in a cage three days a week," she said, shaking her head.
"Oh, no!" I said, finally realizing where she was going. "I'm not here three days every week!"
The zoo has a live webcam trained on their "human exhibit." Link
(Image credit: Paul Bersebach, OC Register)
Comments (3)
Curious how these creatures prop themselves up on a high horse in order to feel superior. Fascinating.
That was pretty nifty the first 10 or 12 thousand times it's been done.
Like this piece of crap!!!!
1. Firstly not fully compatible with Win7
2. Everytime I print with a different app i get the choice of 3 different versions of the same printer
3. After each print job (when I finally get it working) the thing has an epiletic fit cleaning/parking its heads
4. Yes Ive already spent more in ink than the printer and Ive only had it 3 months!
Arrrrgggg!
But I have to use them occasionally at work. My coworkers are familiar with my rant about how Printers are the only technology that never improves, and how they have been maliciously designed to make people miserable.
I'd better email out this comic before they all send it to me.
OK, it won't do great photo-quality prints - I use an online service for that - let someone else maintain tens of thousands worth of expensive kit for the few occasions I need photo quality. What it does do is never dry out and work at a moment's notice reliably even after weeks of idleness.
No more dried up cartridges for me.
Just the other day we were trying to print out something on our 2month old printer and the damn thing kept saying there was no paper even though the tray was full. THEN when it finally did start trying to print, it jammed. Oh joy.
if any company can make a printer which doesn't gargle testes i shall gladly pay double for that.
apple? iprint? maybe?
1. Never buy a multifunctional (each peripheral must do one job -- scanner, printer, fax, whatever);
2. The printer must be a laser printer, preferably a B&W one if you can deal with the limitations. If you need to print photos do it in a dedicated shop (chapeau Skipweasel).
Follow these rules and you won't even know about those problems.
I know some people have special colour printing requirements. Go ahead and buy yourself what you need!
Try hooking up an ascii printer to an ebcdic mainframe. Now lets say it is a parallel printer which means bridging it over windows so that windows doesn't stuff up the spool file. Now lets make it a programmable printer say a Zebra, Monarch or Intermec. Enjoy : )
Perhaps an IP printer that only works through a windows driver so you can't bypass windows easily. (I am looking at you Samsung).
Perhaps you need to learn PCL/PJL, HPSI, daemons, LPD/LPR....there are circles in hell that specialise in these forms of pain.
I hate printers.
ps: I think the multi-function devices have reached acceptability.
The problem is, many printers are programs to requires all colours of ink register as full, before you can even tell it to print only black ink.