Monkeys Typing Shakespeare » Project News http://www.100monkeys.org The Search for Intelligent Monkeys on the Internet Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:52:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Disaster Recovery http://www.100monkeys.org/2007/04/12/disaster-recovery/ http://www.100monkeys.org/2007/04/12/disaster-recovery/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:03:22 +0000 Dr. Safran http://www.100monkeys.org/2007/04/12/disaster-recovery/ Considering the recent mess we faced when returning to the institute after a two year hiatus, the few remaining monkeys and I sat down to discuss disaster planning. Bongo made it clear that anything less than a full bowl of banana gruel was a disaster. When I tried to explain that I was talking about a disaster like an earthquake or terrorist attack I ended up with a faceful of soupy bananas. Bongo can be very frustrating some times but I know he loves me.

After running through an 800-slide PowerPoint presentation I had prepared last night we got to work securing the building, backing up the remaining computers, tying down the typewriters and creating lists of our contacts.

It was then that I realized we had not replaced the anti-poo screens for the monitors and the poo guards on the keyboards. Too late. Bongo sat in the middle of the typing pen having just “painted” several of the new computers we had just acquired. The look on his face seemed to scream “bet you didn’t think of THAT disaster, monkey boy!”

Actually, that wasn’t Bongo screaming it with his face, it was my wife standing behind him. Oh well, off to have my back shaved. I’ll have an update soon on our monkey recovery efforts. In the meantime, please keep your eyes open for any typing monkeys.

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It appears that this video is mocking our own Dr. Safran. Our lawyers have been activated and should be filing suit soon.

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We don’t usually post info about ‘Dr.’ Safran’s private life but this photo was worth it. The day before a planned open house at the Safran’s current home, the largest branch this tree had to offer decided it would rather be on top of the family minivan. Dancing tree monkeys are strongly suspected.

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One of the greatest challenges we have at the SIMI Project is automating the analysis of our monkeys’ output. Thanks to the Retro-Encabulator this is no longer an issue! Thank you, Rockwell Automation!

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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.

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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 monkey chow for an experiment.  After watching his videos we decided not to file charges as we feel he has been punished enough.

]]> http://www.100monkeys.org/2006/09/06/monkey-chow-diet-diaries/feed/ 0 An Important Message from Simon the Monkey http://www.100monkeys.org/2006/09/06/an-important-message-from-simon-the-monkey/ http://www.100monkeys.org/2006/09/06/an-important-message-from-simon-the-monkey/#comments Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:29:35 +0000 Dr. Safran http://www.100monkeys.org/2006/09/06/an-important-message-from-simon-the-monkey/ Recently, Simon recorded the following message. Enjoy.

]]> http://www.100monkeys.org/2006/09/06/an-important-message-from-simon-the-monkey/feed/ 0 We Found Some of Our Monkeys! http://www.100monkeys.org/2006/09/01/we-found-some-of-our-monkeys/ http://www.100monkeys.org/2006/09/01/we-found-some-of-our-monkeys/#comments Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:21:38 +0000 Dr. Safran http://www.100monkeys.org/2006/09/01/we-found-some-of-our-monkeys/ Well, we’ve been able to find some of our lost monkeys. Some have gone as far as Japan. Actually, two in Japan. Considering the cost of airfare, that explains the remnants of what appears to be a giant yard sale in front of the building.

Coco and Tucker were located as well. Looking at their hammock, I’m not sure they’ll be so willing to come back but we’ll try. Somehow a bunch of our monkeys ended up at the San Diego Zoo. We are already planning the night time raid that will free them. We only hope they haven’t forgotten how to type. If you happen to find any of our other monkeys out there on the Interweb, please let us know. Thanks.

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