John’s Crawlspace

I hate to encourage sensationalized news articles that appeal to the lowest common denominator… But I’m about to do exactly that: Language teachers Alini Brito, Cindy Mauro caught by janitor having naked romp in HS classroom.

While we’re on news… What the hell is this? More good pictures and video of this mystery light display here.

…Somewhat related - What would the Earth look like if it had rings, like Saturn? This video is pretty cool.

The Golden Age of Video - This is pretty awesome. It’s like Girl Talk, but for movies and television.

I’d love to keep going here, but I’m gonna spend the rest of my day playing 1D tetris.

Unfortunately I’m pretty desensitized, so a story like this one, while tragic, doesn’t phase me nearly as much as it should. I don’t even watch the news for this reason… It’s so sensationalized and plays off of people’s fears, and it’s all so negative. Anyway, to summarize, this guy walked into an LA Fitness (my old gym, though obviously a different location) and started firing off rounds. He killed 3 women, and police believe he then turned the gun on himself. Like I said, it’s a terrible story, but I’d be wrong if I said this type of incident was unheard of.

It gets a lot weirder. Check out the guys blog here. It looks as though he’s been planning this since sometime in late 2008 (maybe even earlier). His motivation was the lack of attention he gets from girls… He seems to feel that because he hasn’t had sex in so long, that the world is a cold, cruel place… “30 million women rejected me - over an 18 or 25-year period.” Anyway, check it out for yourself. I’m still in the process of reading it, but this is pretty crazy.

Update: I anticipated the blog being taken offline, either due to bandwidth, or the nature of the content. Either way, I mirrored it… You can view it here if the original URL doesn’t load for you.

Every time someone sends me an article at work, I lower the standards which I hold those around me to.

This lady essentially fed her baby feces in order to keep the baby sick, so she could blog about her sick child and gain the attention (read: pity) of the (presumably) miniscule slice of internet traffic that ended up on her mom blog.

I don’t even really know what to say about that. At least she wasn’t feeding the kid crunchberries.

The news article that I just read is definitely one of the more bizzare ones I’ve seen in a while.

A Bakersfield father has been accused of biting out one of his 4-year-old child’s eyes. He then mutilating the other eye, leaving his son blind. The child latet old police, “My daddy ate my eyes.” Okay, so that’s pretty weird.

After attacking his child, he wheeled out of his apartment in a wheelchair, and made his way into a the backyard of a nearby apartment, where he proceeded to attack his own legs with an axe. Even weirder, right?

So what’s the inspiration for all of this? PCP, of course.

He’s being charged with “mayhem, torture, child cruelty and inflicting an injury to a child.” What kind of charge is mayhem?

Anyway, I just wanted to share that wonderully uplifting story with you all, as it surely brought some cheer to my morning.

Can someone explain to me what’s going on here? Take a few minutes and read some of these threads. I’m not sure I can believe that this is real. It seems like an elaborate joke by 4chan or something. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve accepted Obama as my personal savior and all, but these people are beyond fanatical. I’ve already seen a lot of people acting like he’s the Messiah, but this just takes it one step further. Can this possibly be real?

While I’m asking questions to no one in particular, what’s going on with Twitter? I signed up in early 2007 after noticing some buzz about the site. Signs indicated that it had potential to be the next big thing, but after messing with it (albeit briefly) I just couldn’t get into it. I suppose I understand the appeal, but it didn’t do anything for me. Anyway, over the last month or so, it seems like Twitter has absolutely blown up. I only know a few people personally that use it, but it’s all over the media. Every TV show seems to have one. Businesses are embracing it (I convinced my company we needed one for reputation management/customer interaction and created one) and I feel like I see it/hear about it everywhere I go. Can anyone pinpoint what triggered this? I don’t think the site has changed much since I originally signed up, so why did it take so long for people to embrace it? For the record, I still think it’s as lame as I did on day one. That being said, you can follow me here: w00t. What’s does the word ‘hypocrite’ mean? As you can see, I’m trying to embrace it.

Finally, a trailer for Where The Wild Things Are. That looks awesome. I loved this book as a kid, so I can’t wait to check it out.

I checked out Friendly Fires (and White Lies) at the First Unitarian last night… Pretty good show. I love going to that place, it’s pretty small and intimate, and you can bring beer in with you. It’s awesome to catch bands there before they get too big to play in venues of that size. Friendly Fires is what you could call a guilty pleasure for me. They’re very poppy, but the songs are catchy as hell. I can’t help but like them.

So Bonnaroo just made a bunch of additions to their lineup… Notably Dillinger Escape Plan, MURS, Passion Pit, High on Fire, Shadows Fall, and Public Enemy. They also added a bunch of comedians, though the only one’s I care about are Michael Ian Black & Michael Showalter. I can’t believe that High on Fire and DEP were added, I think that’s awesome. It’s definitely cool that they’re broadening their horizons. I really hope that Rothbury follows suite and adds some decent metal (let’s forget that Shadows Fall is on there for now) because I already got my ticket.

Well let’s see… Not much else worth mentioning has happened recently. My phone got run over by a car over the weekend… Yep. I did manage to keep that phone for almost an entire year though, so that’s got to be some kind of record for me. I pay insurance on my phone every month for this exact reason. Anyway, I went to the Verizon store on Sunday and they still wanted $50 for a replacement phone, and they’re gonna give me the exact same crappy model (the VX8350). So I decided to protest this by not getting a new phone. But then I realized that I’m still paying for service, but I have no phone to use it on, so Verizon wins. I broke down and ordered a new phone today… Lame.

Here’s a headline for you: Shippensburg couple finds likeness of Christ in potato chip. When I graduated, I was hesitant to leave Shippensburg, but boy am I glad to be out of there. Oh, Shippensburg.

Saw Gene Ween band last night at World Cafe Live, awesome. Soaring into my second consecutive weekend of sobriety. I wouldn’t recommend it.