Monkeys Typing Shakespeare

This has nothing to to with monkeys but it is pure genius.  Okay, so it has that in common.

Enjoy!

We found two really cool videos for Jonathan Coulton’s song Code Monkey.  One features an animated gorilla while the other features scenes from The Matrix. Enjoy!

Go, go gorilla!

Matrix Monkey Love:

Sanctuary Chimpanzee. Jane Goodall does not handle wild chimpanzees.
Photo by Michael Neugebauer

Dr. Jane Goodall, naturalist, renowned primatologist, and United Nations Messenger of Peace, will make a special appearance at this year’s Ape Awareness Day at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Dr. Goodall, who is at the Zoo for the Jane Goodall Institute’s ChimpanZoo conference, will make a brief stop at Treetops Terrace at 12:35 to share experiences from her 40-year field study of chimpanzees in Tanzania, and answer questions from those in attendance. Dr. Goodall is best known for her groundbreaking work with wild chimpanzees in Tanzania, founding the Jane Goodall Institute, and establishing Roots & Shoots, a program that inspires youth of all ages to make a difference in the world by becoming involved in their communities.

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Thousands of gorillas took the streets of London to support the the Gorilla Organization.  Our monkeys, of course, watched and cheered during the entire race and barely tossed any poo at the T.V.

Check out their sweet gorilla video.

Chalk it up to anxiety or perhaps a complete nervous breakdown but last night I had a strange and vivid dream.  With the house in escrow and plans to move the monkey operations north, things have been a tad stressful.  We still don’t know where one of the chartered busses is and only a few of our 100 monkeys have been recovered so far.

The plan, as it currently stands, is to move up North in 3 to 5 weeks then commute back down to Los Angeles every week to support ongoing operations. As such, I have been talking to one of our programmers, Danny, to contribute a few hundred dollars (or bananas) per month so I can crash at his yet-to-be-acquired apartment one or two nights per week.

Last night I spent my first night on Danny’s couch.  At least I did in my dream (nightmare?).  I awoke early and knocked on his bedroom door to check in.  He was asleep on the floor.  In his bed was Shannen Doherty of 90210 fame.  What the heck?  “Hello?” I said.

She was pretty casual and not at all the psycho the media had made her out to be.  Oh, yeah, she had a mullet.  Or at least a half mullet.  This, of course, became the central point of our conversation until I woke up.  I’m scared.  Should I be?

We feel this video captures life pretty accurately at our headquarters.  Especially the nude part.

Suddenly and without much warning, hundreds of visitors have stumbled here from http://www.stumbleupon.com/.  We’d love to know what all the hubbub is about.  Were we listed on the buzz page?  What’s the scoop?  Bongo and the rest of the monkeys have been scrambling to keep the systems up against all this extra traffic (actually, we’re pretty solid as our sysadmin Dan the Linux man rocks like new socks).

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

With music provided by SIMI Project friend Rob Costlow, I put together this little video for my daughter Rose in time for her 8th birthday.  Photos by me — ‘Dr.’ Safran.  Enjoy!