John’s Crawlspace

Edit: Modified desktop images = fix0red (original, special edition). I love waking up realizing I slept through all my classes. SHITBOMB! I’ll send out the gmail invites later, got some stuff to do.

So I’m sitting down for breakfast before class eating a big-ass bowl of PB Puffs, and naturally I go to check out what fun facts/activites/puzzles are in store for me on the back of the box. Well, what I found was absolutely priceless… Check it out. Sum1 8 my pb puffz!!!11

Politi-Punk.com… Hmm, isn’t “political punk” kind of an oxymoron of sorts? Attention, Hot Topic shoppers… Get involved with politics! It’s the newest way to rebel against authority - Fuck the status quo! Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that dumb, impressionable youth shouldn’t be encouraged to vote, but some of the methods are a little ridiculous… Do we really need P. Diddy threatening to kill us if we neglect to take advantage of our right to vote? I’d pick apart the Citizen Change site piece by piece and point out all the ridiculous shit on there, but it’s not really worth it.

I noticed that one of my roommates had a picture of a bunch of us as his desktop wallpaper, it was taken last year when we were in the dorms. Anyway, I had an idea. It started with hiding the goatse.cx image in a small spot on the wall in the image, but after I did that we decided to take it from there and I guess you could say it got a little out of control. Anyway, you can see the original image here, and the “modified” one here. How many goatse’s can you find? I did this on Thursday night, and he didn’t even notice it until yesterday.

Free Stuff: Phone headset, mousepad, mini-speakers, AWESOME, TOTALLY SWEET peanuts posters, cd wallet, and Skyy Vodka poster (gotta look around on the site for that one).

Ever wonder where all the spam you get comes from? Yeah, me neither… But you can check out a geographical representation of the origins of unsolicited mail here, kinda interesting.

I used to love Transformers when I was a kid, but I never realized how much history there was behind them.

AWOL stands for Alcohol With Out Liquid. “This method of consuming alcohol reduces the effects of a hangover and is low carbohydrate”, so basically you’re inhaling alcohol vapors to get drunk. Someone told me about this a few weeks ago, saying that they saw it in Maxim or something, and I wasn’t sure how I felt about it, but now that I’ve read more about it, it sounds pretty damn cool. Then again, I don’t know if I could part with the sweet, sweet taste of Bankers Club for very long, I might go through some kind of withdrawal.

I came across this video awhile ago, and as gay as this may be I now fold my shirts like that all the time.

I know that the files in the video section were down, but I got them back up, in case anyone wants to check them out. Anyway, that’s it for now, we’re having a “party” here tonight, so I’ve got some preparation/cleaning up to do. Check out WarpedBelief.com. Oh yeah, and the next 12 people to post a comment with their name and e-mail address get a gmail invite. One last thing: Remember, Everclear is not intended for consumption. On that note… Yeah, have a good one.

Added: Check it out… This DVD player from Gateway has a Wireless 802.11g Card in it, and according to this review, it allows you to play DiVX files using Gateway’s new server software. For $108 shipped, that’s not a bad deal at all (enter code SAVE10TVAC for 10% off and code NOSHIPA for free shipping to get the price down to $108).

Just so you all know, today, September 19th is talk like a pirate day. Arrrrr!

Am I the only one who feels like they’re going to walk away from college having learned next to nothing? It’s no one’s fault but my own, but I can hardly tell you what courses I took last year, let alone remember a single thing I learned in them… Not exaggerating, either. My memory is terrible, and it really bothers me. I need to have a 200 level understanding of a foreign language to graduate as an art major. So I’m in my 3rd Spanish course now (I took Spanish 1 last year and Spanish 2 over the Summer) and I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing… The teacher doesn’t say anything in English, so she’ll give instructions or whatever and I have to look at what everyone else is doing to have even the slightest idea what she said. And I need to pass this, and Spanish 4, to meet the language requirement for my major… This is partially my fault, as I didn’t exactly apply myself in the last two Spanish courses I took here… I basically did the bare minimum to get by, and somehow managed a B both times. I took two years of Spanish in high school too, but I’ll be damned if I remember a single thing I learned then. My brain doesn’t seem to retain any type of knowledge unless I use it all the time. I realize that part of college is just earning a degree so you can get jobs, but I am here to learn, too. If I have a quiz/test, I study and memorize whatever I need to know to pass it, and literally within a week I won’t remember a single thing that I memorized for said quiz/test. Is this normal? I’m pretty sure it’s not. I had a page layout & design course last year where we learned to use Quark Xpress, and if I sat down now and opened the program I wouldn’t be able to do anything with it at all. I thought maybe if I stopped smoking it would help with my long-term memory, but so far I notice absolutely no difference. This really bums me out… Am I wasting my parents money and cheating myself? I feel like I am, and it bothers me alot. I have a judicial hearing tommorow (because of this) to determine whether or not I’m going to be suspended for a semester… We were cited for underage drinking and disorderly conduct but it was off campus and happened before school was even in session, so I don’t understand why it’s any of the schools business. I’m already losing my license and paying off an assload of fines as it is, and the police told us that the information would not be sent to the school… I got two drinking offenses on campus last year so this is technically my third, and they have a “three strikes and you’re out” type of policy with this stuff, so… I guess we’ll see what happens.

Oh man… I always thought that Danielle Fishel (Topanga from Boy Meets World) was so hot when I used to watch that show. I kinda forgot about her since then, but then I came across these pics of her on Eluid.org. Larisa Oleynik (Alex Mack) is hotter though. Oh come on, don’t even try and act like you don’t remember that show.

Check out The World’s Smallest Political Quiz to find out what your political philosophy is… Apparently, I’m a Libertarian.

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There’s awful plastic surgery… And then there’s this. Technically, I guess that’s just another example of bad surgery, but come on, it’s really bad.

That’s all I’ve got for now, I need to figure out what’s going on with that trial thing tommorow, apparently I need to prepare an opening statement and stuff, so wish me luck.

Apparently all the pictures taken during parties at one of the houses here in Shippensburg (the “Caucasian Sensation” house, as they like to call it) are posted on a website, GirlsOfShip. My friends and I are in a few of the pics on there… Haha, I like this one, it looks like my head is gonna explode. God, I’m such a cutie.

Some of you have been asking if I got my free iPod yet. I haven’t recieved it, but I did place the order… I took a screen shot. I’ll keep you all updated.

I’m goin to see Coheed and Cambria on 10/17 at the Electric Factory with Underoath and 3… Anyone else gonna be at that show? Also, as much as I don’t wanna admit it, I might be going to the Nintendo Fusion Tour. I’d love to see My Chemical Romance, and yeah, I know I’m a fag, but I dig Story of the Year too. Not too big on the other bands though.

Here is a list of places that will give you free stuff on your birthday if you have a drivers license/state ID with you.

Wow… Some people are a little too interested in Google.

If you’re bored or whatever, check this site out. Somehow it displays the last couple images posted in people’s livejournals, so if you have nothing better to do, just kick back and mindlessly hit refresh in your browser.

If you decide to use the magic teapot, do yourself a favor and don’t search for ‘peehole’… Ewww.

I don’t usually care much about video games, especially during the school year, since I’m usually too busy with other stuff, but I’m looking forward to the new Grand Theft Auto game, San Andreas. There’s a video promo on the site now that you can check out, and it looks pretty damn cool - I actually preordered my copy when I was at the mall a few weeks ago. Anyone else looking forward to this? Oh yeah, the upcoming Tony Hawk game should keep me busy for awhile too, check out a trailer for that here. Speaking of trailers… I wanna see I Heart Huckabees and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. And now that I somehow ended up on the topic of movies, I’ve seen a bunch lately, but only a few are worth mentioning. I, Robot was so much better than I expected it to be. It was actually very interesting and the plot was well developed, and it wasn’t just another average sci-fi type flick, definitely check it out if you have a chance. I saw Napoleon Dynamite twice already and would go see it again if I had a chance, it was absolutely hilarious… I love this type of unintentional humor, it was funny to me in the same way that Rushmore was. The Bourne Supremacy seemed pretty cool, but I kept falling asleep… I hate when that happens. And I didn’t walk into the new Exorcist movie with high hopes, so it wasn’t a big let down… I wouldn’t say it was terrible, it was entertaining to watch, but I don’t think I’d wanna sit through it again. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind isn’t in theaters anymore, and should be out on DVD soon, but I just watched it again the other day and I can’t stress enough how good this movie was. If you haven’t seen it already, do yourself a favor. And as for Garden State, I still haven’t had a chance to see it. Now that I’m back at school, we don’t tend to go to the movie theater too often, and I haven’t been able to find a downloadable copy of it, which is pretty strange. But I do have the soundtrack which is pretty damn good.

I dunno if you guys remember me posting about Hatebeak, the death metal band with a parrot on vocals… Well, I found another band that’s similiar… Caninus is a grindcore band fronted by two pitbulls… Awesome.

This Next Door Nikki girl is pretty hot, and you can find a bunch of her videos here. Sorry, apparently that link isn’t workin anymore.

If you’re cheap and lookin for a domain name… Well, you can get 25 free .info domain names at domainsite.com. Just leave all the info blank at the checkout, and check ‘use free/available credit.’ Oh yeah, and if you’re hungry and in college, check out campusfood.com - Depending on what school you’re at, you might be able to get some food delivered to you free of charge.

Check out Pioneer’s new DVD turntable… That thing looks pretty badass, I’d love to play with one of those.

Plugs: I hate eluid.org. Check out Grunge Music Forum, FUBAR, and Kiss For the Camera.

I’d just like to apologize to you all in for the general lack of effort I’ve put into this site lately. My computer is so ridiculously slow that trying to do anything other than type up a simple post in notepad is a major task requiring more time then I am willing (or able) to put forth. I should be getting a new computer very soon though, at which point I intend on putting more time into this site. It’s always sitting in the back of my head bugging me because I know there are sections that aren’t updated or working, the archives aren’t up to date, I haven’t added cam hotties for awhile or changed the featured MP3s, but I haven’t forgotten about any of these things, so please don’t “lose hope” in the site or anything like that.

So I’m sitting here working on getting some reading done for a course required for my major (art), the course is senior seminar, and the reading is a chapter from “Currents - Contemporary Direction in the Visual Arts” by Howard Smagula. It’s pretty difficult reading for me, since the content isn’t too interesting at all, and knowing I could be drinking instead doesn’t make it much better, but I came across a paragraph in a section about Joseph Beuys that I found to be pretty interesting and cool: After the war he enrolled in a natural-science program at a nearby university. Beuys had always been quite interested in zoology throughout his childhood. Elaborate notebooks were filled with detailed information on his collections of insects, mice, fish, and butterflies. He even had a small amateur laboratory set up at his home for experiments. He was not at the university long, however, before he grew disillusioned with the way science was taught. After his brush with death and his ‘rebirth’, scientific study, as it was taught then, seemed inadequate to address the central issues of life and existence that obsessed him. Beuys recalled with particular horror a lecture given at the University of Posen by a biology professor who had devoted his life to studying amoebae that phylogenically seemed to exist somewhere between plant and animal life. Here was a distinguished professor, a paradigm of rational thought and knowledge, who had devoted the better part of his life to studying this miniscule, fuzzy animal-plant, plant-animal. A feeling of dread flowed through Beuys as he listened to the droning voice of the professor and stared at the out-of-focus slide of that one-celled form. He left the program that afternoon. Throughout the rest of his life, the image haunted the artist and reconfirmed his belief that societal over-specialization has greatly contributed to meaningless work and empty lives. There’s alot I could say about that, but I’m just going to leave it as is, if you took the time to read it I’m sure you can relate to it in some way.

I always wanted to know how to become a small town slut… Thank god for this site. What compells people to create things like that?

Free stuff: Innerwear Condoms, Trojans, Lovejam Springwater Lube, towels, hemp, St. Pauli Girl shirt, board game, and quite possibly the most useless freebie of all time… An Arabian Horses DVD. Also, if you happen to be looking for a free webhost, shyper.com looks pretty awesome, check it out.

Speaking of free stuff… There’s another site like freeipods.com and freeflatscreens.com, called FreeDesktopPC.com… You need ten referrals for this one though, which is alot harder than the five required for the iPod. But I figured I’d post it on here anyway and if you feel that you can get ten people to sign up (and complete one of the free offers, which does require a credit card, but doesn’t have to cost you a cent if you do it correctly, as discussed earlier) then you might as well give it a shot. By the way, one of the free offers you can complete is stamps.com, which apparently comes with a free digital scale, so uh… I’m gonna check that one out. I finally just ordered a new Dell which I’m pretty excited about because this computer is a slow piece of shit, but I wouldn’t mind getting a free desktop… I’ll uh, donate it to charity, and save babies from falling into a well with aids-infected spikes at the bottom and pirahnas and SARS and cigarettes and carbs and all kinds of terribly threatening stuff… Especially the carbs, you really have to watch out for those, they’re even worse than teh HIV! What the hell just happened? Oh yeah, for those of you who haven’t already signed up at freeipods.com already, you might wanna check out this site: getafreeipod.tk - Join a “conga line”, I bet that’s a good way to get your five referrals.

Toogle is pretty cool, it creates ASCII art out of images found with Google’s Image Search engine. Another ‘unique’ type of search engine is TuneTeller, which aspires to be “the google of music”. Worth a look, but I didn’t have much luck with it.

Don’t flatter yourselves, “metal goddesses“, you’re not all that hot.

As tragic as the story itself may be, you know you can’t help but laugh at the headline for this article. I am not a horrible person. I just try to find positive in the negative, or something like that.

I’m sure that this is nothing new, but I’ve never seen it before… Headbanger cat - Hey, I thought it was pretty funny.

If I walked into my room and saw something that looked like this in a pile of clothes, I’d probably freak out. Not because of what it looked like, only because of the fact that there’s a pile of clothing on my floor, and I’m a neat freak. Not really though.

When I was reading Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” I kept thinking to myself how it would make a great movie. Well guess what? They’re making a movie out of it after all… More info here. Hopefully they won’t screw this one up. While on the topic of movies, for all you Kevin Smith fans, there’s a sequel to Clerks coming out… More info on that here.

That’s all I’ve got for now… The first ten people to respond to this post with their e-mail addresses get gmail invites. And to those of you who asked me for a plug/link, I’ll get around to it next time I have a chance, I’m on my way out for the day now. Someome buy me a new video camera.