Of course I have like 20 minutes before I have to leave to catch a plane (yes, at 3:30 frakking in the a.m.) but I had to let y’all know about this: a video with a lot of famous and not-so-famous geeks singing the "Boom-de-yadda" song:
And now I can honestly say I’ve worked with WHil WHeaton! WH00t! You can find out who’s in it and all that on Boing Boing. It was created by Elaine Doyle and Olga Nunes, and I thank them for letting me be in it!
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February 8th, 2010 at 3:47 am
It would be really cool if someone would tell us who everyone is, in order. Boing Boing has a list, but it’s not in order.
I recognized Wil and Bruce and Neil and of course your intrepid self, and maybe a few others, but I am not sure about some. It would be nice to have them all identified.
February 8th, 2010 at 3:48 am
That’s from Discovery Channel, isn’t it!
February 8th, 2010 at 3:51 am
You took it from the Discovery Channel!
February 8th, 2010 at 3:55 am
Great video, Phil! Thx for sharing it… i like everything but the guy saying “I love the whole world” for the first time… I think his name is Richard something… (haha ;D)
February 8th, 2010 at 4:54 am
Splendid choice of pic, Phil
I agree with Lonny though, it’d be nice to have an in order of appearance list if you know of one.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:55 am
Who is that geeky guy pointing at Earth?
or
You can sing?
February 8th, 2010 at 5:05 am
From Olga Nunes’ site (olganunes.com/xkcd):
01. We love momentum – Elaine Doyle & Olga Nunes
02. I love to engineer – David Beaumont & Google Zurich
03. I love this bakery — Hank Green (Brotherhood2.0, Nerdfighters)
04. I love the blogosphere — Cory Doctorow (BoingBoing)
05. I love the whole world – Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy)
06. And all its messed up folks — Lawrence Lessig
07. Boomdeyada Boomdeyada — Miss Cellania (Neatorama)
08. I love your suffering — Allan Amato
09. I love cryptography — Bruce Schneier
10. I love entangled sheets — Olga Nunes, Belinda Casas, Chuck Martinez, Jeremy James, Joanna Gaunder, Lee Israel
11. And kite photography — Charissa Gilreath
12. I love the whole world — Jason Kottke (kottke.org)
13. I love a mystery — Neil Gaiman
14. Boomdeyada Boomdeyada — Mr. Toast
15. Boomdeyada Boomdeyada — MC Frontalot
16. I love elections – Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden (Making Light)
17. I love transistors — MC Frontalot
18. I love weird pillow talk — Team Genius
19. I love your sister — Neil Gaiman & Maddy Gaiman
20. I love the whole world — Octavio Coleman Esq.
21. The future’s pretty cool – Wil Wheaton
22. Boomdeyada Boomdeyada – Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden (Making Light)
23. Boomdeyada Boomdeyada – Team Genius
There’s links to the individuals on there; I just don’t want this to get held up in moderation. (Well, nevermind, I guess it got held up anyway
Phil, delete this if there’s dupes.)
February 8th, 2010 at 5:21 am
Very Cool!
February 8th, 2010 at 5:33 am
Not only can Phil sing, he can sing in tune!
List of everyone here: http://www.olganunes.com/xkcd
February 8th, 2010 at 5:53 am
WHil WHeaton, do you pronounce that like Stewie Griffin pronounces “Cool Whip”?
February 8th, 2010 at 6:02 am
Lovely singing voice, Phil. Who knew?
I recognized Neil, but I’m afraid I’m not sure which one is Will, Haven’t really seen him since ST:NG.
February 8th, 2010 at 6:04 am
I just woke up and this made my morning. If you want the full list of who sings each bit go to http://www.olganunes.com/xkcd
Neil Gaiman and his daughter jumping on the trampoline for the “I love your sister!” line is brilliant. This generation of geeks has the coolest heroes.
February 8th, 2010 at 6:12 am
Most excellent! I don’t know why, but that commercial always makes me smile, and this does as well.
@Rift (#7), Wil was on The Big Bang Theory last season (Sheldon’s nemesis). He was also on an episode of Criminal Minds that was disturbing. And I’m sure that if you search Dr. Plait’s blog, you’ll see plenty of pictures of Will. I bet there may even be a blog category (I’d suggest searching under mancrush).
@Peter Kok (#6) Well, yes, that’s all part of the joke (including that episode where Stewie actually kidnaps the entire cast of ST:TNG).
February 8th, 2010 at 6:20 am
Larry Lessig I recognized from the Colbert Report set, which I recall him being guest.
Bruce Schneier I recognized from ‘cryptography’. Wil I recognized, as well as Phil.* Others I could guess at. (e.g. GOOGLE sign = Google Zurich?)
J/P=?
*Also, Larian, Wil was clean-shaven on an episode of NUMB3RS a while back.
February 8th, 2010 at 6:34 am
There are currently scene-by-scene credits in the “full credit list” section at http://www.olganunes.com/xkcd
February 8th, 2010 at 6:39 am
LOL! Neat.
February 8th, 2010 at 6:44 am
Oh, oh, oh! One of the “benefits” of surfing at work: They don’t use firefox or adblock, so I see all the banners. Normally I totally ignore them, but if you see a banner for the Communications award, I would suggest a nomination for one particular Bad Astronomer! In the aprt where it asks for his phone number, feel free to put unknown (unless you happen to actualy kknow how to contact him). They accepted my form that way.
February 8th, 2010 at 6:47 am
There is a list of everyone in order at Olga Nunes’ blog: http://www.olganunes.com/xkcd
I was most honored to be in a video with Phil Plait!
February 8th, 2010 at 7:29 am
Follow the trail of links to the source, and there’s a full accounting of credits:
http://www.olganunes.com/xkcd
February 8th, 2010 at 7:31 am
Here’s the original comic: http://xkcd.com/442/
It’s full of xkcd in-jokes, so you may want to go through the archive if you’re not a regular reader.
February 8th, 2010 at 7:32 am
http://www.olganunes.com/xkcd has the Who’s Who
February 8th, 2010 at 7:39 am
Who was in bed with the Muppets?
I found that a bit disturbing on some level.
February 8th, 2010 at 7:56 am
After all these years that’s the first time I’ve ever heard you sing! Now I know why I’m the opera singer and you’re not. (smiley face here — and why you know HTML and I don’t.)
February 8th, 2010 at 7:57 am
I was unaware of this whole Boom-de-Yadda thing, and now have a delighted and slightly soppy grin on my face.
You, sir, are physically made out of Win.
February 8th, 2010 at 8:11 am
@MarkHB: soppy grin? I well up every time I see the original for some reason, and my throat was enlumpened watching this one – now *that’s* soppy!
February 8th, 2010 at 8:24 am
@Pieter Kok
Blast! I was totally going there before you beat me to it!
February 8th, 2010 at 8:31 am
Olga Nunes has the list of performers by the lines they sing. http://www.olganunes.com/xkcd
February 8th, 2010 at 9:05 am
Nice videoclip & I second (# 3.) Yeebok’s comment that that was a :
Splendid choice of pic, Phil!
I really love that image of Saturn & the tiny blue dot that is Earth. That has to be my all-time favourite astronomical image ever. Just wish I could find a giant poster of that specific photo somewhere. Does anyone know if such a poster has been made of it &, if so, where I could I get it?
Was Felicia Day in there somewhere? If so then I missed it, if not, then I wish she *had* been!
BTW. Thought you may like to know if you didn’t already that a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB 970508) was recently the “feature article” on Wikipedia.
See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRB_970508
Actually, there’ve been a few good one astronomy ones on there lately!
February 8th, 2010 at 9:17 am
To those looking for the complete credit list (in order) http://www.olganunes.com/xkcd
February 8th, 2010 at 9:19 am
StevoR: How do you wonderful geeks make that smiley face when you comment?
February 8th, 2010 at 10:26 am
I don’t know any of those people (well, within error bars).
February 8th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Phil, like many observational astronomers, probably honed his singing skills by singing along to the music blaring to stay awake. Then there is my thesis advisor who who do Tuvan (Tuban??) throat singing.
BigBadSis (30): Most browsers will translate a colon, a dash, and a right paranthesis as a smiley face. “:-)”
February 8th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Hey, Miss Cellania (#18)! It was cool to see you on the video. You were one of the few I recognized right away.
February 8th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
BigBadSis, you’ve heard me sing before. You just don’t remember. Probably blocked the memory or something.
February 8th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Very uplifting, thank you!
February 8th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
I think your bit actually had the best audio, video & even singing quality of the whole selection!
Well done!
February 8th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
February 9th, 2010 at 12:58 am
@ 30. BigBadSis Says:
StevoR: How do you wonderful geeks make that smiley face when you comment?
As (32) Cindy said. : – ) without the spaces gives you
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; – ) without spaces gives you.
On a less positive note : – ( without spaces =
& : roll : without spaces givs you
Cheekily : – P gives U
& a cool note to end on 8 ) (no nose this time & again w/o spaces) produces
Surprised the BA hasn’t already taught you these & just remember we all have to start somewhere!
Hope that’s handy for you & others here.
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PS. Ah, I see from your post 37 that you’ve got it. Oh well, hope this stillhelps.
February 10th, 2010 at 10:25 am
I HAVE THE SAME iMAC DESKTOP WALLPAPER AS YOU!!! Actually mine switches between a few Saturn pics, but that is the best space photo evah.
February 13th, 2010 at 8:39 am
kinda lame…