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.
Happy Early Birthday to One of My Favorite Monkeys
0 Comments Published September 21st, 2006 in Monkey Love.
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!
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.
We’re pleased to announce that SIMI Project friend and official monkey sculptor Dave Silva is involved in a show tomorrow (Saturday night) called “TIKIS and TERRORS” at the infamous Bahooka Bar.
The piece above (the one he’s showing) is called “FrankenChimp.” According to Dave it is a “customized version of the Infamous Ceramic Surfing Monkeys that inhabit the savage borders of Tijuana, Mexico. We think it looks like Bongo when he hasn’t had his morning coffee. More info at www.tikisandterrors.com.
SIMI Project Acquires Brand New Retro-Encabulator!
0 Comments Published September 15th, 2006 in Project News.
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!
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 up his monkey so it could work on Shakespearian sonnets. So we didn’t. We’re very proud of those three and hope you’ll head over to Helping Hands, say hello and donate a few dollars to this very worthy cause.
