Monkey's Bananna
by: Original author unkown on April 12, 2010
Start with a cage containing five monkeys.
Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result - all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him.
After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked.
Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been done round here.
And that, my friends, is how company policies are made.
Grooveshark
by: Brooks Swinnerton on December 2, 2009
Alright, so I've been on this quest to find the coolest, most intuitive music player on the internet. Now, I'm not saying that I found it yet but I've been playing around with this website called Grooveshark.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a diehard thesixtyone user, and am always on lala for that last play, but man.. this is cool. There hasn't been a song that I haven't found, and I'm not quite sure how it works, but you can queue up songs which is an AWESOME feature that I even wish I could get to work in iTunes.
Anyways, give it a try and let me know what you think.
Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able
by: Brooks Swinnerton on November 10, 2009
Okay, so.. this is by far the weirdest video I've ever seen.. But I really like this video. It had to of taken forever:
thesixtyone
by: Brooks Swinnerton on October 6, 2009
Okay, on a completely different tangent from what I've been taking on this blog. I wanted to introduce this awesome website that I can't stop using; thesixtyone.
It's basically Pandora 2.0, while you can "heart" stuff that you like, you can also comment on bands, follow other users that have similar music tastes and all this other stuff like quests that I still haven't figured out yet.
Anyways, definitely give it a look, and come check out my page and follow me :) I think I get some points for it.