First allow me to apologize for the unacceptable delay in posting. Its difficult giving my primary goal of zombie monkey mastery priority when such mundanities as bills and a job that generates an actual paycheck so intrude.
Also please excuse the low quality imagery.
The transport containment unit from TPW arrived late last week. It was carefully opened to reveal a compressed form along with reams of documentation.
http://www.mindspring.com/~rjordan/woot/zlm/containment2.JPG
Before unpacking further we had to be sure the future plague vectors were carefully restrained. Wouldn’t do to have them trying to escape.
http://www.mindspring.com/~rjordan/woot/zlm/Victims.JPG
The documentation included was impressive. It will be carefully preserved.
http://www.mindspring.com/~rjordan/woot/zlm/tpw_letter.JPG
The notice about inconvenience, it turns out, was prescient.
The Zombie-Like Monkey was extracted from its transport containment.
http://www.mindspring.com/~rjordan/woot/zlm/Zombielike.JPG
The zombie-like face of death and Woot!pocalypse was truly frightening to behold.
http://www.mindspring.com/~rjordan/woot/zlm/unveiled.JPG
However it soon became clear that this zombie-like creation was in fact inactive, its viral payload nonviable. Also silent… no moaning. I believe these conditions were made necessary to allow the subject to fit in the transport containment. Internal integuments removed (Mmmm… monkey-gut stew!)
This information quickly spread to the victim monkeys. The first one was like “Huh!”
http://www.mindspring.com/~rjordan/woot/zlm/huh.JPG
And the second was… jeez, it was smirking! What impertinence!
http://www.mindspring.com/~rjordan/woot/zlm/smirk.JPG
The rest quickly fell into expressions quite unlike the unabashed fear I had expected from TPW’s gift.
http://www.mindspring.com/~rjordan/woot/zlm/abjectfear.JPG
This would not do. Time to transfer the Zombie Like Monkey to the development containment unit
http://www.mindspring.com/~rjordan/woot/zlm/containment3.JPG
I mentioned inconvenience? I was not prepared to provide a reanimation sequence. The power requirements alone are stupendous! Nonetheless an attempt was made using house power.
http://www.mindspring.com/~rjordan/woot/zlm/diditwork.JPG
Unfortunately close examination revealed no change in the ZLM’s status.
http://www.mindspring.com/~rjordan/woot/zlm/closecontainment.JPG
The titters of laughter (well, actually raucous shrieks from the victims gallery were most disheartening. It is well their arms were restrained else I fear feces would have been flung. The ZLM was left in containment, under guard of the one truly loyal monkey servant.
http://www.mindspring.com/~rjordan/woot/zlm/Underguard.JPG
Now TPW… I do appreciate this. I really do. However I think the level of inconvenience is going to make reanimation of the ZLM and its viral package a huge task. Do you know how much paperwork its going to take to get HOA approval for multiple lightning rods? Stave off the FCC when they try to shut down the massive electronic interference of the Jacobs Ladders and spark arrestors? Not to mention the insane cost of the large gauge copper cables that will be needed to transfer power from the apparatus to the ZLM-contact elctrodes!
Sadly, I suspect there will not be a Zombie Monkey Woot!pocalypse this year, at least not one originating from my humble lab and abode. We must continue to count on you, with your much larger and more complete resources.
I shall not give up however. Someday… someday I will succeed in reawakening the ZLM. Think on this and be dismayed!