Archive for September, 2006
It would appear that many of our monkeys are vacationing in Central America — at least according to WWF’s really cool mapping feature.
We think this video was produced by visiting space aliens. Warning: some strong language and subject matter.
Steven Colbert Takes On Fox News Over Monkeys Typing
0 Comments Published September 10th, 2006 in Project News.Steven Colbert of the Colbert Report recently took on Fox News and offered some clarification over the monkeys typing Shakespeare issue. If you watch, he points out that it would take 1,000,000 monkeys. According to our math, once you introduce the concept of infinity, you can do it with 100 or fewer monkeys.
Good detective work turned up a few more of our monkeys today! However, after talking it over we have decided to let them stay with their new employer. It seems that Tippy, Almond and Scratch found their way over to Helping Hands. It just didn’t feel right asking a quadriplegic to give […]
The mystery as to where all of our monkey chow went while we were on vacation has been resolved. It appears that a Canadian (he says, “aboot”) by the name of Adam Scott (no relation to Dr. Safran other than they share a fabulous first name) broke into our office and took some of our […]
According to the folks over at Guinness World Records a monkey earns the top honor of being the noisiest land animal.
The aptly named Howler Monkey’s call supposedly sounds like a mixture of a donkey’s bray and a dog’s bark and can be heard from up to 3 miles away. So the next time you’re woken […]
An Important Message from Simon the Monkey
0 Comments Published September 6th, 2006 in Project News.Recently, Simon recorded the following message. Enjoy.
As our chartered buses travel around the country looking for our lost monkeys, it has given us a chance to discover new monkey-themed music. Enjoy:
Song and lyrics by Jonathan Coulton:
Code Monkey get up get coffee
Code Monkey go to job
Code Monkey have boring meeting
With boring manager Rob
Rob say Code Monkey very dilligent
But his […]
Dr. Safran and his girls (right) with Croc Hunter Steve Erwin.
Word has reached the SIMI Project that famed Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin’s life has come to a tragic end. According to the obituary, Mr. Erwin was filming a documentary when he was killed by a Stingray. We are truly saddened by this unfortunate turn of […]
An anonymous tip came in from 26-year-old John Mistretisky of 174 Main Street in San Jose, California (John’s wife’s name is Cynthia and he has four kids, a boat and a credit card ending in 2412). This anonymous tipster called to tell us that seven of our monkeys were working for the Yahoo! Music Service. […]
