Robot vs. Human: Making Pancakes

Making Pancakes 

What we have here is a video of a robot that can make pancakes. We also have a video of bunch of lushes that put videos of themselves making ridiculous meals on the internet every week. Not only is this a battle that will live on for centuries but I'm pretty sure the robot is smarter the the whole team over at EpicMealTime. I would still give the win to the humans if for the only reason that they made me laugh.

Robot

Human

Robot vs. Human: Evolution of Dance

Evolution of Dance

A group of people got together and programmed a robot with the Evolution of Dance routine made famous by some goofy guy on YouTube. In my opinion the robot does a way better job at the dance but I'll leave it up to you to decide.

Human

Robot

Big Brother 14 Recap: Episode 5

Willie Meltdown in 3,2,1 and Boom

The fallout from the eviction was not even felt with Frank winning the HoH and Willie putting that giant bull’s eye on his back. What we do learn at the start of the episode is that Janelle told her team to vote out Kara in order to keep Frank in the house. Janelle wanted to keep Frank so she can keep the heat of her players by having that conflict between Willie and Frank in the house.

Frank and Boogie celebrate, Frank staying in the house and winning HoH, in the diary room by doing a very good imitation of the great chill town interviews of seasons passed. They even finish the interview with a patented Boogie/Will laugh attack.

Frank’s HoH room looks a lot like Willie’s HoH room except we actually get to see some pictures this time. Frank has a childhood picture of him with a mullet. I knew I liked this guy for a reason. Boogie also gets a picture in his HoH coach suite. Is it just me or do we never get to see the mother of this child? Did he adopt? Does she not want to be on TV?

Britney has a sit down with Willie, after Janelle tells her he has to go, and after chewing him out for a good 3 minutes she tells him that he really screwed it up for his team. Willie tells her that he came to the house playing for himself he never wanted a team, making sure his team doesn’t want to help him anymore. He even tells Britney “I’m a big boy; I can take care of myself.”

The other house guests seem to be going about their days, JoJo was telling Frank about their plans just so she could “stay loyal” (?) to her team. I don’t know if she knows what that means. Shane is flirting with Danielle with the old “do you know what a weenis is?” and the “does this hurt move?” I thought Shane was an adult, I bet he pushes her in the pool before the end of the season.

Boogie decides that, what better way to have another conversation with Britney than to threaten her again. This time he tells her that if she wins the Head of Household competition that it “might” be in her own interest to keep Willie instead of possibly trading him. His way of explaining this to Britney is by telling her that if she trades Willie, Shane will become the main target of the house. You can probably guess how Britney took getting threatened for a second time since they’ve been in the house.

Ian tells Boogie he has this idea of possibly taking Ashley on a “slop date” (a date where they both eat Big Brother slop). Boogie doesn’t think he has a shot with her but while discussing this plan with Dan, Dan takes it upon himself to act like a elementary student and run to Ashley and tell her “somebody might have something to ask you outside.” She goes outside to have Ian awkwardly (with boogie hiding behind a beach ball) ask her out on slop date. Ashley decides to give Ian a chance because she has “a soft spot for nerdy guys with glasses.”

This has to be the most awkward segment in Big Brother history. In his green dress shirt and polka dot bow tie Ian is told to go pick up his date in the bathroom. How nice. Then they go into the “arcade room” and relax while Britney plays waiter for the awkwardly good looking couple. They go on to talk about inorganic chemistry, and Ashley asks the difference between inorganic and organic chemistry only to be so confused by Ian’s answer that she asks him to repeat it. Ian says that he doesn’t get to go on very many dates because he’s “pretty busy in his regular life.” (Yeah, sure Ian)

Before the coaches competition JoJo and Shane try and convince Britney that losing Willie really would be better off for the team. Britney really doesn’t need much convincing telling her two players to keep their distance from Willie so they won’t be targeted like him.

Frank comes out to announce the coach’s competition looking like a white-hillbilly-MC-Hammer. The competition is that the coaches will have to carry stacks of “money from one side of a balancing beam to the other. When they get to the far side they have to stack their stacks like Jenga pieces until they don’t have any more stacks of “cash” left on the original side. They will be knocked out if the fall of the beam or if any one of their stacks of “cash” hit the ground.

Dan decides before the competition that in order to keep up his “weak persona” he is going to have to throw this competition. He either sees that as an advantage or is just covering his butt because he sucks at competitions.

Britney starts off the competition like a fire cracker, she takes an early lead. She starts off to such a good pace some of her houseguest compared her to some quick animals and objects. Dan says “it’s like an Arkansas hog running from the farmers.” Wil compares her to “a frickin’ flyin’ squirrel.” And Ian says “it’s like a Jack Rabbit is on that balance beam.”

No one is even close to Britney. Janelle and Boogie are pretty much tied in second and Dan is still pretending to lose. Britney was going so fast when she tried to grab another block of cash; she knocked over a couple of other ones and was eliminated from the competition. Janelle and Boogie are really close to finishing but Boogie has a slight lead. On his way to hit the buzzer and win the win the competition Boogie gets overconfident and steps off his beam eliminating himself from the contest. Janelle then easily beats Dan, who is still not half way to finishing.

Janelle decides to keep Ashley safe for the week, as opposed to making a trade saying that she loves her players to much. Janelle’s other task was to choose have not’s for the week. She chose Willie, JoJo, Shane and Ian. JoJo reacted poorly to Janelle’s decision in a diary room interview calling Janelle a “mean bitch” for making Shane a have not two weeks in a row.

When the house guest get back into the house after the competition, the have not’s find out that America has given them porc rinds and pudding as a treat on top of the slop they will have to eat all week. Ian is extra excited saying that he loves pudding and his “grandma eats pudding and my long lost cousins probably eat it.”

After everyone calms down from the excitement Willie tries to talk to JoJo in private which Britney quickly stops. She tells JoJo that it isn’t good for her to be seen all chummy with him. Willie tells JoJo that he plans on getting the heat off of her and Shane and get it put back on him. Britney keeps telling Willie to leave the other players alone because he is putting their game in jeopardy, she tells him to stop acting like that around her and her team and go act like an asshole around the other house guests. Willie replied to Britney’s challenge by screaming “You think I’m scared?” and running up to the HoH room to tell Frank that it is his fault everything happened and that JoJo and Shane had no part in it.

Everything that happened this episode, from his team and coach abandoning him and all the backstabbing, Willie is about ready to explode and I think he knows he’s leaving so he’s going to do it his own way. He sits in the kitchen, and decides to think out loud “I ain’t never seen a bigger group of p------ in my life.” He continues with “A bunch of p------ in this b----“ only to have Joe retort “You’re the only p---- I see, brah.” Then shit started to hit the fan. Willie lost it and charged Joe yelling “What you say?” Joe turned to him in a fighter's stance and Willie started telling Joe to hit him. They stood chest to chest, with Ian in a towel trying to break them up, ready to get into it. I guess Willie thought he wasn’t doing enough and decided to throw a kind of shove/head butt. As soon as he made contact a voice came over the loudspeaker telling Willie to go to the diary room. Once in the diary room Willie was escorted from the house and expelled from the game.

Everyone expressed their feelings about Willie leaving after producer, Allison Grodner, explained to the them that Willie had been kicked out. Most of cast were glad Willie was gone with Britney even saying she was relieved he was gone but also that she was scared about her disadvantage that Willie had left them with.

This season is heating up, with the most exciting character being expelled from the hous in the second week. Hopefully that means someone else will step into his role as the house villain and not that the house will become extremely boring (like last season).

Big Brother Update (July 20-21) (Big Spoilers)

Long Live Frank

Big things are happening in the house on days when the show doesn’t air. Here are some spoilers to catch you up before tonight’s episode.

July 20

·         Janelle won the coaches competition, choosing to give immunity to Ashley and not trading anyone.

·         After the coaches competition Willie went nuts, slamming things around and telling people he was going to get kicked out of the house before eviction.

·         Have not’s are Willie, Shane, JoJo, and Ian(he volunteered)

·         Willie kicked a door, dropped lots of cursing, threw pork rinds at Janelle, called her a “bitch,” and headbutted and chest bumped Joe in the bathroom. Willie was then called to the diary room and expelled from the game. JoJo even said he was banned from the finale.

·         Frank nominated JoJo and Shane (Britney is down to two players and they are both on the block. Uh oh.)

July 21

·         The Veto players are: Frank, Shane, JoJo, Ian, Ashley, and Wil

·         Shane wins the Veto (second week in a row!)

·         Frank plans on putting Danielle up when Shane uses the Veto (securing Dan’s exit)

·         Janelle, Britney, Ashley, and Danielle all dress up in 80′s style. Wil even breaks out “Craig,” his straight alter ego.

·         Shane and Frank make an alliance to go to the final two (that is a terrifying concept, and they could potentially run the house)

Alpha’s Beta Season Primer

Season 2 Primer

 Alpha’s was somewhat of a breakout hit for Syfy in its first season. The show’s set in a world filled with people who have the unique power to stretch the capabilities of the human mind giving them superhuman physical and mental abilities known as Alphas. The main premise is that a team of Alphas were put together by Dr. Lee Rosen in order to protect the world for Alphas who want to hurt people or to capture and try to help the ones who don’t know how to use their abilities. (The show has drawn comparisons to X-Men or even Heroes but one thing it does differently is that they cannot just use their powers without regard for anything. All the abilities have their own side effect.) The show does a great job at having a procedural feel to it by having the team chase new cases almost every episode, at the same time having a larger antagonistic presence lurking in the shadows for the whole season. That presence was none other than the “terrorist” group of Alphas that call themselves, Red Flag. We don’t know a lot about Red Flag meeting their leader in the last episode of the season and only meeting a couple other members during the season.

The first season ended with Dr. Rosen letting the world know that Alphas existed and lived among them every day, only to be reprimanded to (what looks like from the season 2 previews) an insane asylum. So in order to get you ready for the second season I’m here to shed a little spot light on the main characters from season one.

Good Guys

Dr. Lee Rosen

Ability: None

Bio: He is the leader of a team of Alpha’s that solve crimes that are usually related to their own kind. He is a neurologist and a psychiatrist with a long history of working patients who had neurological disorders. He is not an Alpha but has a daughter who is.

Last Time We Saw Him: He was being reprimanded by guards while he let the world know about the existence of Alpha’s.

Gary Bell

Ability: Tranducer (He can read electromagnetic wavelengths with his mind.)

Side Effect of his Ability: He is diagnosed with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Bio: Gary is a twenty-something who lives at home with his mom. Being autistic he is sensitive to many factors of his environment, and dependent upon rigorous routine. His mother is very loving but is concerned that his job for Dr. Rosen will get him hurt. Gary has grown a lot in the first season being a lot more independent and gaining a great friendship with Bill.

Last Time We Saw Him: He was helping patch Dr. Rosen’s live stream speech over the internet from their office.

Bill Harken

Ability: Hyperadrenal Alpha (He is able to summon amazing strength by consciously activating the “fight-or-flight” response. He experiences super human strength and a resistance to harm that borders on invulnerability.)

Side Effect of his Ability: He will become cripplingly fatigued if in that state for too long.

Bio: Bill is a former FBI agent, who has a tough time with other people’s boundaries. He has a little bit of a temper but also can be a jokester. At the start of the first season he hadn’t told his wife about his abilities and she still thought he was working for the FBI. (He was fired for breaking his superior’s clavicle.)

Last Time We Saw Him: He was at the office watching Dr. Rosen’s speech on the internet.

Nina Theroux

Ability: Influencing (She disrupts the specific neural pathways in the cerebral cortex leaving the brain vulnerable to suggestion.)

Side Effect of her Ability: Influencing people can become very addictive if used to often.

Bio: When Nina was younger she would use her ability to gain all sorts of things that would benefit her, without any regard to how her actions would affect anyone else. Nina has grown to have feelings for Cameron over the course of the first season leading Dr. Rosen to express his concerns about a relationship within the team.

Last Time We Saw Her: She was at the office with the team watching Dr. Rosen’s speech on the internet.

Rachel Pirzad

Ability: Synesthete (She can enhance one of her sense to super human levels)

Side Effect of her Ability: She can only enhance one sense at a time, leaving her other senses useless.

Bio: Rachel lives at home with her parents, who are very protective and traditional. They want Rachel to find a husband and settle down but don’t know if she ever will. Rachel has a hard time standing up to them and is timid with most people. Her abilities make her a vital member of the team leaving her with the task of identifying most clues.

Last Time We Saw Her: She was at the office with the team watching Dr. Rosen’s speech on the internet.

Cameron Hicks

Ability: Hyperkinetic (His mind's imaging systems and muscle control is perfectly in tune with the motor skills center of the brain. As a result he possesses flawless aim, perfect balance, and greatly enhanced motor skills.)

Side Effect of his Ability: When stressed his abilities lower to a below average level of a regular human.

Bio: Hicks became a part of the team after he was arrested for an assassination that he committed under the influence of another Alpha. He joined the team but has always been wary of Dr. Rosen’s motives. He does not trust authority but was a marine before he joined the team of Alphas.  

Last Time We Saw Him: He was at the office with the team watching Dr. Rosen’s speech on the internet.

The Bad Guys

Stanton Parish

Ability: Immortality (doesn’t age, doesn’t’ get sick, doesn’t seep)

Side Effect of his Ability: He has become cold and has a complete lack of empathy.

Bio: We know very little about Stanton because we first meet him in the last episode of the first season. What we do know is that he is the leader of “Red Flag” and he doesn’t seem to age. His life very well could span two centuries, but it is very possible that he has been alive longer. He is a scientist and wrote a manifesto for the terrorist group “Red Flag”. He also has some sort of connection with Dr. Rosen.

Last Time We Saw Him: He was in what appears to be Dr. Rosen’s house with his daughter Danielle discussing her father’s internet speech.

Griffin

Ability: Invisibilty... Kind of (She affects peoples optic nerves, expanding the normal human blind spot to accommodate her.)

Side Effect of her Ability: Unknown

Bio: She is a mercenary for hire that shows up in one episode to kill an Alpha that the team has imprisoned and are interrogating. Griffin doesn’t leave without letting them in on the name of the leader of Red Flag.

Last Time We Saw Her: She snuck out of the offices without anyone knowing.

The Other Guys

Skylar Adams

Ability: Quantative Aptitundinal (She can invent devices ahead of their time, build things fro random pieces lying around and she can escape from situations very easily.)

Side Effect of her Ability: Unknown

Bio: Skylar is a former patient of Dr. Rosen’s who’s now living on the outskirts of regular society. She lived in a warehouse creating and inventing things like a device that when used for 20 minutes gives you the rest of an eight hour sleep. The team tracks her down and then lets her go when they discover the government wanted to capture her and her daughter (who had inherited her mother’s ability)so they could use her ability for their own means.

Last Time We Saw Her: She was escaping from the team with her daughter. (She will be back in season 2)

Anna

Ability: Omnilinguism (She can understand any language in the World, even technical languages.)

Side Effect of her Ability: Severe Appraxia (A neurological disorder that affects the ability to repeat 

muscular movements.)

Bio: When the team raided a Red Flag safe house she was found, left behind. They initially believe that she was being used to encode messages for Red Flag but discover that she is actually in fact a high ranking member of the terrorist organization. After befriending Gary Anna tries to recruit him to Red Flag with little success. They continue their friendship behind the backs of Gary’s team, in the end netting Gary the info that Stanton Parish is alive.

Last Time We Saw Her: With a bullet in her head. She was one of the many Alphas that were a part of Red Flag that wanted to let people know of their existence. Stanton Parish set them up to be found by the police ending up in a gun (power?) fight and leading to most of the Anti Parish Red Flag members dead.

Red Flag is on the loose, Dr. Rosen is locked up and we have no idea what happened to are team of good Alphas. That’s what we are left with. Luckily we only have to wait until Monday to figure out what will happen next.

Two Super Teaser Trailers

Man of Steel Teaser Trailers

These are two recently released teaser trailers for the upcoming instalment of the Superman franchise. They are pretty much the same things, the only difference being the voice overs. One of the voice overs is done by Kurt Russell as Jonathan Kent, Superman's adopted human father. The second trailer's voice over is done by none other then the Gladiator himself Russell Crowe, playing Jor-el Superman's (biologic?) alien father.

Jonathan Kent Trailer

Jor-el Trailer

AJ Ranks Vol.4: Call Me Maybe Parody Videos

Call Me Maybe Parody Videos

Not all of these video's are parodies. Some of them are lip dubs, some are pretty girls dancing around and one is actually just a dog barking a crucial moments of the song. Here, without further a do is my list of top ten Carly Rae Jespen video parodies.

10. Call me Corgi

I don't know how these domesticated animals are making all these videos lately but it's definitely scary. Isn't that how the apes took over the world in Planet of the Apes?

9. Staples Center Team 

This is basically all the people that work at the Staples Center making a video for Call Me Maybe. Don't they have jobs to do.

8. Miss Universe Maybe

Brought to you by Donald Trump, this lip dub video has a lot good looking ladies and was going to make this list whether I liked it or not. Speaking of good looking women...

7. Miami Dolphin Cheerleaders

I don't know whose bright idea this was, but I would really like to thank them.

6. Lock Haven's Women Lacrosse Team

This video is higher then the two professional model video's because these girls were funny. They danced like they were crazy and always looked like they were having the most fun.

5. Harvard Baseball Team

These guys started a fad in which groups of college kids on sporting trips or just trips in general decide to make videos in their vans or buses of them singing and dancing to hilarious songs. These guys are the originators.

4. Share it Maybe

I posted this video the other day and it will never get old.

3. Key of Awesome

If you are ever looking for a parody of a popular song, look no further than the Key of Awesome YouTube page. They have everything.

2. Dirty Maybe

This is TimotheyDeLaGhetto with a NSFW parody of the Call me Maybe song. If you don't like toilet humor you won't like this.

1. Star Wars Maybe

A super fan (of Call me Maybe? or Star Wars?) put together this hilarious video of actual dialogue for the Star Wars movie so that it sounded like they were singing Carly Rae Jespen. This is classic.