Purr Hurr! January 19

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Important: I’m having some trouble figuring out how to use Amazon’s pay system. If you buy a Power Hour DVD, you need to e-mail me with your 12-digit transaction ID, as well as the address you would like the DVD to be shipped to. I apologize for this but for now it’s the best way to do it. And that way you don’t need to worry about the DVD being automatically sent to your home address if you’re at school or whatever.

So the Power Hour DVD is finally done. It’s actually been finished for a few weeks now, but encoding/compression/menu creation/etc all took a little while to figure out. I’ve done it with probably 20 people now and everyone loves it. You have two options… A DVD with just the rock and rap power hours on it, or a DVD with rock, rap, and the punk/metal/hardcore (my personal favorite) power hours on it. The main difference between these is that the videos on the 3-in-1 DVD are of lower quality due to the fact that I had to compress them more to fit all 3 on one DVD. If anyone is interested in another combination of Power Hours, such as rock and punk/metal/hardcore on one DVD, let me know and I’ll see what I can do. Anyway, for now, I’m selling these for $10, and that includes the shipping cost. The DVDs can be purchased here. The payment is done through Amazon.com (if you’d rather use paypal or something, get in touch with me). There are alternative methods of obtaining a copy: The top 3 stories submitted to thedrunktank.com this month will recieve free copies of the DVD. You can also recieve a free copy of the DVD if you sign up for freeflatscreens.com using my referral, and complete a free trial offer. If you wanna do it that way just get in touch with me. Buy yours today!

I pretty much hate the radio, and therefore I hate my radio alarm clock. So College Alarm Clock is a godsend - It allows you to wake up everday to an MP3(s) or CD of your choice, and you can have a different time for every day of the week. Pretty useful if you ask me.

I was kinda surprised to see that Ali G gave a commencement speech for Harvard’s class of 2004. You can see the video here, it’s not all that funny though.

Everything I need to know… I’ve learned from Iron Maiden.

Holy shit: Comedy Central has given the green light to: “Stella,” a half-hour series toplined and written by Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter and David Wain. A scripted adaptation of their popular stage show, it has received a 10-episode order for a summer launch. That’s awesome! Stella is hilarious… I’m sure you’ve all seen it by now, right? RIGHT?

STOP GOING TO SHOWS. This video is pretty damn funny. So is the fact that my website is the first thing to come up when you search for “Bankers Club Vodka” on Google. Why is that funny? Well, Bankers Club is the cheap, shitty vodka. Sure, there are many others, but this is the one we’ve all been drinking since high school, and when our over-21 friends would ask us what we wanted, you can be damn sure we asked for it by name: Bankers Club! Is this just a Pennsylvania thing, or do they sell Bankers Club all over the US? I’m kinda curious actually.

So now Microsoft is offering their own antispyware program. And uh, apparently it works wonders. Raven Riley is hot.

This video is absolutely frightening. And so is Ashlee Simpsons music… Which is why it needs to stop.

If you’re used to using Firefox for browsing the web, and you have one of those little USB keyring drives, you should check out Portable Firefox. It’s a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive… Cool? Oh yeah, and this program speeds up FireFox’s page loads, I used it and I definitely see a slight increase in speed.

Free Stuff: Subscription to Money magazine, colon cleansing system, corkscrew, 10 pack of 3.5″ floppy disks, and animal posters.

Cig-A-Ro? January 14

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New System of a Down track! I’m pleasantly surprised, this is better than the shit on their last album. You can check it out here, it’s called “Cigaro”.

I’ve been told a few times that you can make shitty vodka (ie. Bankers Club, Kassers, Crown Russe, etc) taste better with the use of a water filter. After seeing this, I really wish someone would have told me about this like five years ago when my friends and I couldn’t afford anything nicer than “the cheapest vodka you can find”. Oh well, I still might try it.

I know I’ve linked to BumWine.com before, but now I have a story to tell. On Thursday my last class ended at 3:15, so I was heading to the liquor store, and I saw one of my roommates walking back to the house, so I picked him up and he came along. I told him about BumWine.com on the way, and we decided to try and find some of the delightful wines they review on the site. I’ve had MD 20/20 like a million times before, those are easy to find, and not all that terrible. I wanted to try Cisco the most, I mean just read the description. Anyway, we could only find Thunderbird and Wild Irish Rose, we got one of each - Unfortunately, I was the one who bought the Thunderbird. While checking out I asked the clerk if he’d ever heard of Cisco, and he started laughing and told me it was illegal in Pennsylvania, and that he had heard it go by the name of “liquid crack” before, just like it says on the site. He was telling me how only Native Americans and homeless people bought it, and he said it was the same with Thunderbird. He said that back in the 60s and 70s, people would see each other on the streets and say something like “Whats the word? Thunderbird! Whats the price? Thirty twice!”, and that they said thirty twice because it used to cost 60 cents a bottle. We talked for a few minutes and I told him about the BumWine website. So we headed out and came back to the house. I didn’t wanna get too wasted because we planned on doing the Power Hour DVD with a bunch of people later that night, and then hitting up Maxies for Thursday night $2.50 Yuengling pitchers. I took a sip of Thunderbird and it honestly tasted like fucking gasoline, it burnt the whole way down like I was just sitting around sipping Bankers Club vodka or something. Dave’s was pretty terrible too but it did have a hint of fruit taste to it… Someone said it tasted like “bad communion wine”, which I felt was a pretty accurate description. Anyway, Dave finished his, and I finished like half of mine (I couldn’t take anymore of it). A bunch of us headed to campus to grab some dinner, and afterwards Dave started vomiting violently in the parking lot. After many jokes of how Dave and I were gonna wake up in a gutter covered in cardboard boxes, we decided to take another trip to the liquor store. Some of the others wanted to get down on some BumWine action as well, but they played it safe with some Mad Dogs. I went in with them and asked about another wine on the site that I forgot about the first time, called Night Train Express. I don’t know why I asked after tasting how terrible the two we had already gotten were, I guess I was just intrigued. He told me he had heard of it as well but that they didn’t carry it anymore, and then he reached under the counter and pulled out a copy of BumWine.com - He had printed the whole thing out and I guess he thought it was hilarious. I just thought it was strange that some of the stuff he told me was the exact same stuff on that site. Anyway, I’ll never drink either of the two we purchased again, the two of us both felt like shit the whole night, like I actually felt kind of sick and didn’t even end up going out. I do, however, plan on driving to Maryland (possibly this weekend) in search of Cisco (he told me you can buy it there), how can I resist something that has been dubbed “liquid crack”? I guess common sense would tell someone to avoid these at all costs, but what can I say, I’m a moron, and I’ll deserve whatever happens as a result of the consumption of these sweet, sweet bum wines. I realize this entire paragraph seems like one big plug for the website, that wasn’t really intentional, and I’m not making money for linking them or anything… Quit being such a grundle.

This music video by the band Soulwax is awesome.

Free Stuff: Subscription to Assets (it’s like Maxim), subscription to Comedy Scene Magazine, mini massager, bigwords.com stickers, GT Live sticker, “Gas Pig” bumper sticker, PissPeopleOff sticker, pheremone sample, air freshener, shaving stuff, everest gum, and markers.

Alright, well I’m gonna head out to the Cobra Island Rave. While I’m gone, check out Potropolis. Oh word, I also somehow managed to get on Dean’s list last semester. Yeah, I couldn’t believe it either.

Ol Reds Itchin To Have A Little Fun January 4

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Edit: The videos should be working now. Oh yeah, and the power hour DVD really is almost done now.

You know what’s funny? I know this girl. If I ever get rich, I’m gonna buy a pitbull and totally pimp it out, X 2 da Z style. I’m gonna put spinners on that bitch and a fishtank inside of it, and I would get a sweet security system on that bitch, so if anyone else ever tried to walk my dog it would make a loud-ass alarm and the dog would shit in the fake-ass walkers mouth.

I hate tabloids, but I found this article to be pretty humorous and somewhat interesting. It claims that “moviemaker Larry Wachowski (The Matrix series) is reportedly planning a sex change operation”, and it includes pictures.

It’s not too often that I play video games, and I was never much of a fan of “RPGs” at all, but the other day I remembered how awesome Chrono Trigger for SNES was , and I decided to find the ROM and maybe play it a bit while I’m still home on winter break. I don’t know if ROMs are a pain in the ass to find or not, but their definitely doesn’t seem to be nearly as many non-BS websites as there used to be. Anyway, I found this site and it has a bunch of SNES ROMs that you can easily download without a shitload of popups and stuff. Now I kinda want to get a video game controller for my computer but I don’t know anything about that shit, I’d probably buy the wrong one and end up ruining my computer or something because I’m a complete moron.

I finally got ahold of one of those i.Link firewire (4 to 6 pin IEEE or whatever) cords, so now I don’t have to use my shitty old Dazzle DVC80 USB thingy to capture video from my camcorder. It’s amazing how much easier this makes it. Anyway, I was playing around with it and I threw a bunch of videos together. You get to see the ones that aren’t more or less “evidence”. So here you go, I’ll add them to the videos section later…

TV, Nick vs. Keith, Chops vs. Bike Ramp, and Tobaccong.

Yes, that is tobacco in that last video, and it’s absolutely horrible, I wouldn’t recommend trying it. That’s not to say that we thought it was a good idea when we tried it, I just think it’s funny. Anyway, those are all from one tape, and I have like 7 more, so there will be tons more when I get a chance… If these aren’t at all entertaining since you don’t know the people in them or whatever let me know and I won’t bother putting more time into doing this. I was planning on making a longer post but I spent like 4 hours capturing/editing/compressing those videos so it’s gonna have to wait.

Free Stuff: Subscription to Electronic Gaming Monthly, Men’s Journal, TV Guide, Ski Magazine, Maxim, and Digital Juice, engraved whiskey glass (you have to pay shipping though). Oh yeah, and you can listen to the Wesley Willis tribute album, “Loved Like a Milkshake - A Tribute to Wesley Willis” right here.

Plugs: Chumbucket.netAnd uh… Metroid Metal is awesome. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years (or just Winter Break in general), I know I did. Thanks for everything, I’m here once a week.