John’s Crawlspace

In keeping with the tradition of ruining everything technology-related or otherwise expensive that I own, I totalled my new car. I went to fill up my gas tank during my lunch break on Tuesday (I work in Jersey and gas is cheaper there than in PA). I was on my way back to work, when I sneezed. My face exploded, and snot went everywhere. I was looking for a tissue – I looked down for 2 seconds, 3 max, and when I looked back up, there was a FedEx truck in front of me. He was pretty much at a complete stop, because he was trying to turn left. This was on a pretty busy road, the speed limit is 40, and I was probably going about 35 when I hit him. I didn’t even have a chance to slam on the brakes. I’ve been in accidents before (this is my second one this year, for those of you keeping score, right?) but I’ve never had an airbag deploy on my ass before. Not literally on my ass, you know what I mean. Luckily I wasn’t injured, I definitely could have been if I didn’t have my seatbelt on. I had a case of CDs on my lap at the time, and I’m not exactly sure how, but probably about 10 of them more or less exploded – There was literally ‘shrapnel’ from CDs all over the interior of the car. The accident was my fault, even though I obviously didn’t hit the dude on purpose. So my new car that I’ve had for less than two months is now more or less totalled. Check out the damage…

   

Anyway, the cops weren’t exactly nice to me, but if you’ve been here before, you’d know that I wouldn’t expect them to be. I had a bottle of vodka in the back of the car from this past weekend, so naturally they were giving me shit for that, and they asked me at least 3 times if I was drunk. Here’s the confusing part. I switched insurance companies on Monday. The accident happened Tuesday, so obviously I didn’t have the paperwork for my new insurance provider. Not only was I more than a little shook up from the accident, I was confused about the whole insurance thing, and these cops couldn’t have been less patient or understanding with me. I was on the phone with my dad to see if he could go online and get my new insurance policy info, and while I was on the phone, the cop was yelling in my ear, “you do realize I am gonna cite you for this, right? You know you’re getting a summons for what you did, right!?” My dad actually said to me, “who is that yelling at you?” Anyway, the whole experience was pretty ridiculous, and now my premium is gonna skyrocket. So I’ve got that going for me. Shit.

I can honestly say that I’ve never watched an episode of American Idol. I’m aware of the garbage that the show produces, however, and I’m not big on all that prefabricated mainstream radio crapola. That’s a genre, if you didn’t know. Anyway, before I totalled my car, I’d listen to Howard Stern once in a while on Sirius. They talk about the current season (I believe it’s season six) of American Idol a lot, and they are doing all they can to get everyone to vote for the contestant who they think has the least talent. I’m sure most of you know about him already, he’s some Indian kid named Sanjaya. Anyway, they’re constantly plugging the Vote for the Worst website, and I’m pretty sure Howard has enough fans (some of who vote 500+ times per session) to make this kid the winner. Apparently Simon, the host of American Idol, has stated that if Sanjaya wins, he will quit the show. So Howard more or less feels like he has taken control of the show, and is tearing it down from the inside. It’s quite entertaining. Anyway, I came across this today:

“Sanjaya War Dialer uses your computers modem to automatically dial the American Idol voting number over and over and over again until you tell it to stop. Automatically cast hundreds or even thousands of votes for Sanjaya with the click of a button. Make Sanjaya win and help us ruin American Idol.”

Such a great idea. I am amused by all of this, but I don’t actually care enough to make an effort myself. Anyway, you can get the Sanjaya War Dialer here (at Download.com, of all places). Wow, I haven’t heard anyone talk about a War Dialer since… A long time ago.

I never have time to play video games anymore. If I did though, I’d inevitably waste a whole lot of my time on Nintendo8.com. Choose from a veritable dickload of classic NES games. Come to think of it, I’d probably just load up an emulator, since I have multiple gigs of ROMs somewhere. Either way…

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