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Mind of UPSLynx for the week of May 16

Mind of UPSLynx for the week of May 16

UPSLynx Bobby Miller 17 May, 2010 at 9:40am ET Article published in Tech


Bobby is moving to California. He asked me to draft this text to precede his normal weekly video, Mind of UPSLynx. I’ll use this opportunity to say:

Bobby, the midwest will miss you. The west coast just gained a huge (literally and figuratively) asset, and you’re gonna do great out there. The entire Icrontic community is behind you. Go be a star.

Love,

Brian

This week’s Mind of UPSLynx is really nothing more than a goodbye message and a tribute to South African hip-hop band Die Antwoord. Bobby came up to ICHQ last week and we listened to Die Antwoord quite a bit, so apparently it stuck with him.

Without further ado,

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Comments

  1. Petra
    17 May 2010 ~ 10:32am Petra Coming to California, eh? Odds are you'll end up somewhere near places I frequent *evil grin*

    Unless, of course, you're moving to San Francisco... I usually avoid SF... and then there's that whole section of the state that's North of SF... may as well be part of Oregon... and then there's Sacramento.... and... okay, maybe I was wrong.
  2. timuchan
    17 May 2010 ~ 10:43am timuchan So glad to hear this isn't the last Mind of UPSLynx!!! Good luck in California! :D
  3. BuddyJ
    17 May 2010 ~ 10:44am BuddyJ Dis is like da coolist shit I've ever 'erd in mi ole life...
  4. Thrax
    17 May 2010 ~ 10:50am Thrax Dees ees sum next levul sheet.
  5. Bandrik
    17 May 2010 ~ 1:07pm Bandrik Here's my thoughts as I watch the video...

    1:10 - HOLY BALLS. New truck is effing awesome. I didn't realize you were shopping for a new vehicle. It. Looks. Good. Your old truck was cool and all, but this new one looks a lot more... dependable. Just make sure the head-bobbing tiger is the first to grace your new truck, okay?

    2:00 - Haha, crowbar. Don't forget the Plunger!

    2:22 - No fear but stressed? That actually makes perfect sense, and I'd probably feel the same. But you're doing the right thing, one step at a time.

    2:45 - A... rapper...? Uh oh.

    2:55 - Represent internet culture? A terrifying concept.

    3:15 - Did you just say--- YOU JUST SAID HUMBLE BUMBLED!! YEAH!! OH MAN I LAUGHED SO HARD!

    3:35 - BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAST!!!

    4:10 - "And my lyrics... don't... smell... uh... *waves around*" L O L ! !

    Overall: Awesome, especially for your going-away, last video in E-town video.



    Time to fly, Lynx. You'll go far.

    -Bandrik
  6. Snarkasm
    17 May 2010 ~ 2:46pm Snarkasm Yo blade swings free, decapitate a hater with amazing ease, this is not a game, boy...

    And you already own a PC computa, so you're set.
  7. Annes
    17 May 2010 ~ 4:47pm Annes I gotta admit, that ROFL neck tattoo is fucking hot.
  8. Frylock
    17 May 2010 ~ 5:11pm Frylock Love it
  9. jokerz4fun
    17 May 2010 ~ 6:54pm jokerz4fun First off your sister would so get it.
    Also best video you've ever done. You have reached the summit, you can not get any higher then this grasshopper.
  10. Cliff_Forster
    17 May 2010 ~ 10:15pm Cliff_Forster I just want to state for the record that real men drive pick up trucks... Nice ride Bobby.
  11. UPSLynx
    19 May 2010 ~ 7:50pm UPSLynx I'm glad you guys enjoyed this... I stayed up WAY too late making it and was only going off the hope that people would laugh.

    And Cliff, I agree completely. Not to mention that whole 6 foot 7 thing...
  12. UPSHitman
    25 May 2010 ~ 1:09pm UPSHitman May the force be with you on your move. STAY SAFE BRO SHOW THE FAMILY THAT YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE IT MAN!
  13. primesuspect
    21 Jul 2010 ~ 1:03am primesuspect Bump, because this fokken rules. New zef flow
  14. UPSLynx
    21 Jul 2010 ~ 3:17pm UPSLynx dis is like, the coolest song I eva herd in mah whole lafe.
  15. Bandrik
    21 Jul 2010 ~ 3:23pm Bandrik subsriber 4 life A+++++++++++ will bompz again!!! THAAAAAAAAAAANKYOU!!!
  16. Snarkasm
    21 Jul 2010 ~ 5:59pm Snarkasm I'm seeing Die Antwoord live in August. Oh yes... oh yes.
  17. primesuspect
    21 Jul 2010 ~ 6:07pm primesuspect One day when NINJA moved back home with his mom & dad again he saw that little YO-LANDI from next door had grown some boobs and a nice bum.
    Then NINJA had a baby with YO-LANDI by accident.
  18. Koreish
    10 Jun 2011 ~ 11:46am Koreish Anyone remember that one time Lynx made a weekly show? It was pretty funny and good times were had by all? Ringing any bells?
  19. Annes
    10 Jun 2011 ~ 11:47am Annes Dammit Koreish, you got me all excited for a hot second :(
  20. Koreish
    10 Jun 2011 ~ 12:09pm Koreish I do that sometimes...
  21. Kwitko
    10 Jun 2011 ~ 12:17pm Kwitko Annes tells me that I get her all excited for a hot day.
  22. UPSLynx
    10 Jun 2011 ~ 1:48pm UPSLynx awwwwww man.

    I miss this SO MUCH. You guys have no idea.

    Here's what happened. I was actually shooting something really clever while I was driving across the country. It was a spoof of those Promos for Conan where he was running from New York to Los Angeles for his new show. I was doing the same, and it was really awesome. When I got to LA, I was going to open the first episode of Mind of UPSLynx with that sequence, or tease a new series.

    I shot video in every state I traveled in. When I got to California, in one of the greatest moments of my life, I went down to Newport Beach to watch the sun set over the Pacific. This was just a few days after seeing the Atlantic ocean with my own eyes. I shot the final video of me running by the camera, and that was it. My camera completely failed.

    Remember when I shot that episode of the camera burial? I managed to ressurect the camera about a month later, which is how I was shooting things still. When it died on Newport Beach, CA though, it was dead for good. Nearly eight years of service, that camera finally gave in. It was a poetically beautiful way for it all to end, at the destination of my greatest journey.

    I still have the files, but I haven't gotten a replacement camera yet. The real thing keeping me from doing this show again is the prospects of the new. I want to do a new video series for Icrontic, I just need to decide what.

    Mind of UPSLynx as we know it can't continue. I can't really talk about tech news because of my contractual obligation to AMD (much like how Thrax can no longer write tech news.) But I don't want to do video for news regardless. The best episodes of MIND were when I was doing something outrageous - smashing a computer monitor, a funeral for my camera, spoofing Die Antwoord.

    I'm trying to think of a way to take that concept further. Something like "Hey Ash Whatcha Playing?" or "Two Best Friends Play". I want something original, unique, and enjoyable by all audiences (IC readers and non-readers alike). Once I get that concept, I'm in business. But it's a big deal, and it has to work.

    Man. I miss this.
  23. GHoosdum
    10 Jun 2011 ~ 2:06pm GHoosdum I was really looking forward to the filming of Mind of UPSLynx when he lived with me, but HE NEVER DID IT AGAIN.
  24. mertesn
    10 Jun 2011 ~ 6:49pm mertesn Bobby, if you want to do something at EPIC I will bring my video camera.
  25. UPSHitman
    20 Aug 2013 ~ 7:06pm UPSHitman I think it's time for this to return!
  26. primesuspect
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 12:59am primesuspect AGREED. BOBBY WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE
  27. UPSLynx
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 2:11am UPSLynx Quit it. Let me be happily unemployed in my corner of LA grumble grumble.
  28. CrazyJoe
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 2:29am CrazyJoe Wait, so you're unemployed and still not making videos? There are no excuses.
  29. UPSHitman
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 2:31am UPSHitman Come on Little bro, be a MAN and step up!
  30. Bandrik
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 2:51am Bandrik Just think of all those sound effects you never got to use in the intro's transition...

    ...waiting...

    ...unloved...

    ...with so much lulz to be had...

    ...bluefuck...
  31. UPSLynx
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 5:51pm UPSLynx
    Wait, so you're unemployed and still not making videos? There are no excuses.
    The better excuses are that I don't have a camera anymore, and I'm lazy.
  32. GnomeQueen
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 5:55pm GnomeQueen
    Wait, so you're unemployed and still not making videos? There are no excuses.
    The better excuses are that I don't have a camera anymore, and I'm lazy.
    You should get a camera....for science. Or something.
  33. ardichoke
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 6:27pm ardichoke Time to start a donation drive to get Lynx a camera.... and to buy a stockpile of Nova Schin which we will only send to him after new MoUL vids are posted?
  34. primesuspect
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 6:58pm primesuspect His mobile phone has a good enough camera, just saying.
  35. BobbyDigi
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 6:59pm BobbyDigi ..which was broke last I heard.

    -Digi
  36. UPSLynx
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 7:21pm UPSLynx Digiownage.
  37. UPSLynx
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 7:22pm UPSLynx Also, I would never ever shoot this show on a webcam or equivalent (cell) quality video.
  38. mertesn
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 8:33pm mertesn
    Also, I would never ever shoot this show on a webcam or equivalent (cell) quality video.
    Camera snob ^
  39. UPSLynx
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 9:01pm UPSLynx I worked in broadcast TV for four years, so... yes.
  40. Thrax
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 9:22pm Thrax SAYS THE MAN WHO RECORDED ON A GRAINY POTATO FOR YEARS
  41. Bandrik
    21 Aug 2013 ~ 11:05pm Bandrik Thraxownage. And he even busted out the rare appearance of caps lock, to boot.

    Comb your beard, Lynx. I don't want to hear your smalltime excuses. Change it.
  42. primesuspect
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 12:28am primesuspect Thrizzowned
  43. UPSLynx
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 12:28am UPSLynx Nope. Not doing it.
  44. JBoogaloo
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 12:34am JBoogaloo ^ usually leads to doing it :)
    I missed the first run, but I'm sure I'll enjoy round 2. See ya on the interwebz soon.
  45. mertesn
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 1:50am mertesn
    Nope. Not doing it.
    DON'T NEED IT.
  46. GnomeQueen
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 4:11am GnomeQueen doitdoitdoitdoit
  47. CB
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 4:52am CB badger badger badger
  48. BobbyDigi
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 5:30am BobbyDigi
    Nope. Not doing it.
    image

    -Digi
  49. mertesn
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 9:23am mertesn
    badger badger badger
    mushroom mushroom
  50. CB
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 12:02pm CB
    badger badger badger
    mushroom mushroom
    It's a Snake!
  51. Kwitko
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 12:19pm Kwitko If Bobby makes a video, I guarantee 100% that I will make it to EPIC 2014.

    For added pressure: I TRIPLE DOG DARE YOU!
  52. midga
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 1:32pm midga Don't do it, Bobby. No one cares what you think. No one wants to hear what you have to say. Just stay in your little corner and sallyfap with your tears.

    Besides, maintaining a significant web personality presence couldn't possibly be useful in acquiring gainful employment in your desired field.
  53. Bandrik
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 5:07pm Bandrik Sake.
  54. UPSHitman
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 7:23pm UPSHitman
    Don't do it, Bobby. No one cares what you think. No one wants to hear what you have to say. Just stay in your little corner and sallyfap with your tears.

    Besides, maintaining a significant web personality presence couldn't possibly be useful in acquiring gainful employment in your desired field.

    I second this motion!
  55. UPSLynx
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 8:18pm UPSLynx
    Don't do it, Bobby. No one cares what you think. No one wants to hear what you have to say. Just stay in your little corner and sallyfap with your tears.

    Besides, maintaining a significant web personality presence couldn't possibly be useful in acquiring gainful employment in your desired field.
    ..... yoooooouuuu sumnabitch.
  56. AlexDeGruven
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 8:23pm AlexDeGruven
    Don't do it, Bobby. No one cares what you think. No one wants to hear what you have to say. Just stay in your little corner and sallyfap with your tears.

    Besides, maintaining a significant web personality presence couldn't possibly be useful in acquiring gainful employment in your desired field.

    I second this motion!
    Thirded!

    It's time for a vote. Someone needs to create a poll:

    Should @UPSLynx be barred from doing any more "Mind of UPSLynx" videos?
    [ ] yes
    [ ] definitely
  57. ardichoke
    22 Aug 2013 ~ 8:41pm ardichoke -Digi 's wish is my command: http://icrontic.com/discussion/97885/mind-of-bobbytallbeer

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