Comments on: Clone Them Clone Them!! http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/09/clone_them_clon.html Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:15:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bubblehead http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/09/clone_them_clon.html#comment-14595 Bubblehead Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:09:21 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/09/27/clone_them_clone_them.html#comment-14595 <p>I listen to Jonathan Coulton -- and you should too. On <a href="http://www.jonathancoulton.com/store/downloads" rel="nofollow">this page</a>, check out "Code Monkey", "Re: Your Brains", "The Future Soon", and "Mandelbrot Set", and let me know if you don't absolutely love them.</p> I listen to Jonathan Coulton — and you should too. On this page, check out “Code Monkey”, “Re: Your Brains”, “The Future Soon”, and “Mandelbrot Set”, and let me know if you don’t absolutely love them.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/09/clone_them_clon.html#comment-14594 ninme Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:27:53 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/09/27/clone_them_clone_them.html#comment-14594 <p>...the hell music do you listen to?</p> <p>Nuts they're related to whales and pigs, but not elephants. I must have been thinking those other things... Sea cows. Fine, I looked back into the mysts of my memory of those little evolutionary family tree things and I confused hippos with sea cows. Are there dwarf sea cows?!</p> …the hell music do you listen to?

Nuts they’re related to whales and pigs, but not elephants. I must have been thinking those other things… Sea cows. Fine, I looked back into the mysts of my memory of those little evolutionary family tree things and I confused hippos with sea cows. Are there dwarf sea cows?!

]]> By: Bubblehead http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/09/clone_them_clon.html#comment-14593 Bubblehead Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:33:42 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/09/27/clone_them_clone_them.html#comment-14593 <p>The "filling the genetic gaps" with DNA from another animal sounds quite <em>Jurassic Park</em>-y; it also reminds me of a verse from <a href="http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/Skullcrusher%20Mountain" rel="nofollow">"Skullcrusher Mountain"</a> by my favorite geek troubadour:</p> <p><em>I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you But I get the feeling that you don’t like it What’s with all the screaming? You like monkeys, you like ponies Maybe you don’t like monsters so much Maybe I used too many monkeys Isn’t it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?</em></p> The “filling the genetic gaps” with DNA from another animal sounds quite Jurassic Park-y; it also reminds me of a verse from “Skullcrusher Mountain” by my favorite geek troubadour:

I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you But I get the feeling that you don’t like it What’s with all the screaming? You like monkeys, you like ponies Maybe you don’t like monsters so much Maybe I used too many monkeys Isn’t it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?

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