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Posted
22 May 2006 @ 6pm

Tagged
foofery

macbook man

Over the weekend, a new app called macsaber came out. The moment I realized that geeks everywhere would be swinging their new laptops around, my first thought was how stupid that must look and how that could easily become another Star Wars Kid parody.

My new macbook showed up today and I downloaded macsaber. The rest is internet history:

I went for accuracy, combing my hair down, putting on tight khakis and a striped tight shirt, and following his first set of movements.

Link to the youtube video


29 Comments

Posted by
TheBrad
22 May 2006 @ 7pm

Oh. Oh my. Neeeerrrrrrrd.


Posted by
Myles
22 May 2006 @ 7pm

Bwahahahaha! Paging Waxy…


Posted by
Dan Dickinson
22 May 2006 @ 7pm

Truly the best of the web. :)


Posted by
Lester Nelson
22 May 2006 @ 7pm

Oh man, I just laughed out loud so hard it was embarrassing.


Posted by
marcusto
22 May 2006 @ 7pm

that was awesome. Good work. I signed up for a typekey account just to compliment you. good stuff.


Posted by
ben
22 May 2006 @ 8pm

Oh, tee-hee. Both horribly, horribly wrong… and hiarious. The thousand-yard stare into the camera right at the end is classic!

Last but not least, this app could lead to a few epic saves, thanks to the instant of warning one might get.

BEFORE MACSABER:

*thwack* *clatter* “Oh, shit! Scratch one Mac.”

WITH MACSABER:

*rerrr* *thud* *user breaks fall of computer with body*

…In theory, at least.


Posted by
Anil Dash
22 May 2006 @ 9pm

Dude, you know how you have a daughter? And you were worried about how someday a boy would show up on your doorstep, trying to date her?

PROBLEM SOLVED!


Posted by
RakDaddy
22 May 2006 @ 9pm

I think this is the 21st Century equivalent of watering your lawn in Bermuda shorts and black knee socks. Congratulations! You’ve now proto-actively embarassed your daughter.


Posted by
sixfoot6
22 May 2006 @ 10pm

It’s like a Perfect Geek Storm.
And you are the Perfect Geek Storm Trooper.

Big ups for the haircut and camera staring.


Posted by
Dinah (MetaGrrrl)
22 May 2006 @ 11pm

I am so proud to be your friend.

That totally rocked.

If you’re gonna do something do it right, and you definitely know how to do it.


Posted by
James Roe
23 May 2006 @ 5am

Here is hoping we can help this go viral.

http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=2825


Posted by
urban bohemian
23 May 2006 @ 6am

That was amazing, the staring into the camera was a little scary but major props to you for the whole performance!


Posted by
blurb
23 May 2006 @ 7am

So awesome.


Posted by
jragon
23 May 2006 @ 8am

When isnoop first showed me this app, I called it the best app ever. That movie was the best movie ever.


Posted by
Vidiot
23 May 2006 @ 9am

Best. YouTube. Evar.


Posted by
Lucian
23 May 2006 @ 10am

Dude, you’re so not getting an ipod. :)


Posted by
shoo
23 May 2006 @ 11am

Instant internet classic! Should have recreated the part where he almosts falls down.


Posted by
Milks
23 May 2006 @ 2pm

This is clearly in the top 10 of all time. If I could only keep one on my hard drive, I’d seriously archive this over ‘One night in Paris’.

In an age when everyone wants to be entertained but does nothing, here is a man willing to throw down and and deliver. Brilliant.


Posted by
Jish
23 May 2006 @ 9pm

This is absolutely, utterly awesome. I just gave my wife a little light saber show m’self.


Posted by
Adam
23 May 2006 @ 11pm

I can’t get enough. You have the whole off balance thing down perfect, and that look on your face can be described with only two words- Ice cold. Touche.


Posted by
looptron
24 May 2006 @ 3am

Genius, this is. Yes.


Posted by
Dan Diemer
24 May 2006 @ 9am

thats just freakin awesome.


Posted by
Jarrod
24 May 2006 @ 1pm

Let the remixing begin!


Posted by
JoyBoy
24 May 2006 @ 11pm

EEWWWW.. NEEERD..
hahaha.. funny video, love it.


Posted by
Paul Hart
26 May 2006 @ 10am

You’ve hit the mainstream now, Matt:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/tech/mac-tricks.html


Posted by
Erin MJ
26 May 2006 @ 1pm

Matt, I have never visited your blog before, but I found this video through Cameron Moll and I just had to leave you a comment because it is absolutely HILARIOUS! Thank you for making this Star Wars fan’s day. :D Lol.


Posted by
Patrick
30 May 2006 @ 8am

I think your face was not serious enough :)

I agree — one of youtube’s best!


Posted by
bamboomy
3 June 2006 @ 1pm

This probably won’t make the page but I will write it anyhow…

man…

That video is so unbelievable lame that I am ashamed that we are the same species…

I’m glad you have to personally approve this message, so I can be even less carefull what I write and you have to read it anyway.

I just spent half an hour on making sound work in flash again.
(I use Linux, that means I know how to work with a computer, and I don’t use them to swing around and hope that the whole world will find me funny)
And silently hoping that your lame video would be better with sound then without, I was profoundly dissapointed.

I don’t know man…

All I can see on that pitty video of you is a sad sad man, hoping to get some attention by swinging a computer and get some friends by putting it on the internet.

I feel sorry for you man.

I hope you make a lot of money in your job, or something that lightens up your pittifull existence.

no greetings of any kind,

Sandeur


Posted by
-b-
6 July 2006 @ 8pm

puuhlease! do that at Webvisions.


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