John’s Crawlspace

Check out this chart, it maps the wires that the interwebs travel through from one country to the next. Check out Africa… No wonder the internet was so painfully slow in Ghana! It reminded me of the days of AOL 2.5 and dialing up using a 14.4 modem.

“Hack your brain” – Want to hallucinate without taking drugs? Read up on some rather interesting methods of “opening the doors of perception” without ingesting mind-altering substances.

Wouldn’t it suck to get shot in the arm? It definitely would, especially if you were minding your own business. Say you were in a movie theatre… On Christmas Day. Damn. A little late on reporting that one, I know, I forgot about it until now.

Check out the second paragraph of the Wikipedia entry for “Graham Cracker”. How is it possible that I never knew this until now? Usually I indulge in sinful activities while eating graham crackers, and sometimes I just smash them into my face.

Since I’m “catching up” anyway… I spent this past New Years in Wildwood, NJ with a small group of friends. It was different, since not many people were around, but I had a good time. I think there were 8 of us there. Last year I was in a crowded bar/club in Montreal. I hope you all enjoyed your New Years in the US, because according to this dude, we only have about 2 of them left.

An Ohio teenager killed his Mom when she took away his copy of Halo 3. I’m really not sure what to say about this story – There are a few obvious video game jokes that could be made here, but they’d be in extremely poor taste, and it’s a pretty sad story to begin with.

I ran my first 10k this past Sunday. “Shiver By The River” in Reading, PA. It was freezing cold out, and I was a little underdressed, but I still enjoyed it… Until the last mile or so, when I started getting terrible stomach pains. I don’t know if it was because of something I ate the night before or what, but I thought I was going to make a mess of my pants. I started walking when I had about half of a mile left. Some guy ran past me when I slowed down and said something along the lines of “come on man, only half a mile left, you can do it” – As lame as it may sound, he inspired me to push through the doo-doo brown pains and finish up the race at a decent pace. As soon as I started running again (about five seconds after I stopped) I took off and flew past this guy, and about 10 other people. I finished in 100th place (out of 350+ people) with a total time of 52:11. I can definitely do a faster 10k than this, but considering the conditions I think I did pretty well… Regardless of the fact that I got smoked by a bunch of 60 year old dudes (no homo).

Check out this basejumping video. That looks absolutely incredible. Where do I sign up?

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