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Jasper? Really?

Not Pepe Le Peu?
Not Flower?
Not Stinky McSkunkerson?
Not Limburger?
Not Elon's Musk?
Not Amorphophallus Tiny Titanium?

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I think the last time I went in a Radio Shack was sometime around 2003ish. I remember it distinctly because I wanted to buy plain old AA batteries, and it was the closest store. I hadn't been to one of their stores in a while and was surprised when they asked me for name, address, and phone number. To buy batteries. With cash.

So, I said my name was Jasper P. Whillacker the Third, with a 555 phone number, and living at 123 Fake Street. The clerk evidently got a lot of that. Just asked me if I wanted to reconsider and give my real name/info, I said no, so he used some fallback customer ID and let me check out. Went back a few more times over the next 2-3 years (it was close to my house at the time), and the same dude always remembered not to ask about name/info ... so I guess that is something.

Who could name it "Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel".

That would at least be easier to remember than "Malcolm Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Umbrella Stand Jasper Wednesday (pops mouth twice) Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable (whinnying) Arthur Norman Michael (blows squeaker) Featherstone Smith (whistle) Northcott Edwards Harris (fires pistol, then 'whoop') Mason (chuff-chuff-chuff-chuff) Frampton Jones Fruitbat Gilbert (sings) 'We'll keep a welcome in the' (three shots) Williams If I Could Walk That Way Jenkin (squeaker) Tiger-drawers Pratt Thompson (sings) 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' Darcy Carter (horn) Pussycat (sings) 'Don't Sleep In The Subway' Barton Mainwaring (hoot, 'whoop') Smith"

My wolverine would have a cooler name than "Jasper". Like "Jaws" or "Fritz" or "Belushi". Jasper... pffft. Jasper is clearly a hedgehog or goldfish name.

I live just down the road from Jasper. That Tiger Lilly is very impressive - don't know that I've ever seen one as big and well-formed. The other flowers he shows are very common, but beautiful all the same (though not nearly as beautiful as a huckleberry patch when you're hiking).

Curious why the video has a Russia tag? We, uh, can't exactly see it from here.

Needs a christmas carol.

How about "Oh come all ye faithful"?

"Jasper's Balls, Jasper's Balls, Jasper all the way..."?

"Jasper, you're stealing my thunder."

Does that mean she's usually the one to butt-fuck the kid?

Sorry Jasper. The video you uploaded to Vimeo and then posted here is in violation of the Posting Guidelines.

Wow, thanks for the recommendation. That was a great film.

In reply to this comment by MrConrads:
Thanks for the heads up, bummer I can't find a replacement yet. If you're interested here's another of his (Anthony Lucas's) animations; it's absolutely brilliant! FYI though, it's about 26 minutes long. Enjoy!

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Mysterious-Geographic-Explorations-of-Jasper-Morello

In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
*dead unfortunately

Thanks for the heads up, bummer I can't find a replacement yet. If you're interested here's another of his (Anthony Lucas's) animations; it's absolutely brilliant! FYI though, it's about 26 minutes long. Enjoy!

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Mysterious-Geographic-Explorations-of-Jasper-Morello

In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
*dead unfortunately

You'll notice how everyone is wearing orange jumpsuits?

That's not because they're fashionable, that's for sure. It's because the software isn't capable of "finding" person without help in the form of a huge orange marker. Granted it could be the studio lighting is too powerful... or it could be that the vision isn't particularly good at discerning background information from relevant player movements. I've dabbled with computer vision software - its not easy hacking by any means. Not impossible, that's for sure, but I doubt we'll see the huge strides still needed to complete whatever plans MS may have for Natal within a few months, that's for sure.

Everything about Natal screams "We're not nearly ready to sell this, but we'll keep pretending it's ready by showing people playing our tech demos." Just like the original 360 - it was rushed, and suffers a high rate of hardware failure for it (16%, or 4 out of every 25 360s sold, granted that number is prior to the Jasper revision, which supposedly has cut number down, but remember that across the entire consumer electronics industry, the hardware failure rate is 15%, and the Wii and PS3 fail at a rate of 3%).

I own a Wii, got it just a couple weeks after it launched, and I make no apology for enjoying it. I've been playing video games for over 25 years, and watched the industry evolve into what it is today. Microsoft is repeating the mistakes it's made since entering the console business, and I'm surprised they've lasted this long.

Besides, Nintendo has historic ties to the Yakuza. How cool is that?

I'm not just a Wii fanboy. I'm a I <3 The Big N Fanboy, diehard. I see my favorite game maker rise to power as it did in my childhood, and I laugh at the wannabe tech that Sony and MS have been scrambling to try and 1-up Nintendo, but they both fall short. Motion-control wasn't added to the PS3 control until late in it's development, after they saw what Nintendo was doing with the Wii remote, and they thought that they could just take that, just as they took their basic controller design from the SNES pad. The DS has outsold the PSP by over 2-to-1, and there hasn't been a time in the last 20 years when they didn't dominate the handheld market.

Thangya, thangya vury much.

In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
*promote the majesty of mother nature

^alien_concept:
Bit of trivia for anyone who's interested, this is his daughter Lucy Davis <IMG class=smiley src="http://static1.videosift.com/videosift/i/emoticon/smile.gif">
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Office-UK-Dawn-chats-with-Keith


Well, there you go, I did not know that.