John’s Crawlspace

I’m throwing together a quick post on a laptop at my buddy Matt’s house, because I don’t know when I’ll be home next. I’m down in the Harrisburg area and we’re having a New Year’s party here, and then I’m most likely going to the Orange Bowl on the 1st. We’ll probably be back on the 4th, and everything is up in the air from that point on. I don’t have tickets for the Orange Bowl, but I don’t care; tailgating is gonna be absolutely ridiculous, I seriously can’t wait.

There are some interesting facts on this site, and most of them don’t seem too hard to believe… But I don’t know about that “gay bomb”.

I finally got a video iPod a few weeks ago, and it’s awesome. I don’t know how many of you remember my post about how you can get free stuff from Apple if you own an iPod that’s within it’s one year warranty - But I used this trick to get a free A/V cable. Basically what this means is that I can take any video file, encode it to .MP4 format, put it on my iPod, plug the A/V cable into the iPod and the other end into my TV, and watch the movie on there… Which is pretty awesome. If you didn’t see that post, here’s a quick recap:

Here’s a list of “The Top 50 Music Videos of 2005″: I’ve only seen 3 of them. Oh well.

Just thought I’d let you all know I got my dock for my iPod for free from Apple. You can do the same, just go here, enter your iPod’s serial #, then login and fill everything out. I told them that my current dock wasn’t recieving any power, and that I tried unplugging it and plugging it back in, as well as I trying it on several other computers to no avail. They ship overnight and don’t ask you to send your defective unit back. You’re welcome.

Anyway, if you’re looking for video content for your iPod that’s already encoded to the proper format, iPod Nova is a good site for torrents. If you want a good application for encoding video files to .MP4 format, Videora iPod Converter is a nice freeware tool that’s easy to use.

I found this to be kinda strange… Sega is planning to release at least one game for the Dreamcast console, which I assumed was “dead”, since they haven’t released anything for it for a while. I still have a Dreamcast, but I only really use it for playing NES Roms.

I’ve seen language translators online before, and they’re useful, but This translator is pretty cool though, it translates the words to whatever language you’d like, and it does it while you’re typing.

If you want a PSP, but it’s out of your price range, or you don’t like all the limits put on it (ie Sony’s attempts to prevent homebrew development) then the Gamepark GP2X might be just what you’re looking for.

To be honest, I don’t know how I feel about this… I’m just confused.

Like I said before, I’m not at home so I don’t have any of my files or anything… So plugs/links will be taken care of next time I post from my house. Everyone have an awesome New years, and I’ll be posting again soon.

I just remembered that I usually post on December 25th, so I figured I’d keep this little tradition going. Let’s take a look back at 2005, shall we? I’ll let a bunch of other, higher-quality sites do the dirty work for me - All of these are “of 2005″ lists: Dumbest quotes, Funniest quotes, 10 best/worst unseen films, 10 best ‘indie’ films, Pitchfork Media’s top 50 albums and Top 15 worst releases, Top 25 DVD releases, 50 coolest websites, Funniest commercials of the year, 10 most violent video games, Top 10 National Geographic videos, Top 25 news stories, 10 most dangerous toys, Top 20 album covers, Rolling Stone’s mavericks of the year, The year’s wierdest celebrities, Most outrageous statements, Best undressed, Worst cars/Best cars, The best of photojournalism, and The year in pictures (which is amazing by the way). I took these from here, which is a much larger list.

My friend is in Kappa Sigma at Penn State, and they’re getting kicked off campus, so they started trashing the house. The landlord found out and hired security to roam the halls. The frat house is enormous, it’s like a dormitory building, and normally there are people all over the place drinking and being loud. So we were up there visiting, drinking in my friends room, and a security gaurd comes to the door. He told my friend that he was only allowed to have on guest at a time, and “you know you’re not allowed to have any alcohol in here.” He was cool about it and left us alone for the most part, but I was blown away by the fact that I was drinking in a frat house and someone came to the door to yell at us - It was seriously like there was an RA there or something. Weird shit.

This is probably the coolest-looking clock ever.

Double Feature Finder is a pretty awesome idea for a website. You type in your zip code, and then choose a theater near you. The site then lists all of the movies showing back-to-back, so if you have no life, or feel like spending the entire day at the movies, all you have to do is buy one ticket, and you’re set!

So I got kind of sidetracked, and this update took alot longer then I expected - I started it Christmas afternoon, but I’m posting this and it’s about quarter after one in the morning the day after Christmas… Oh well. I have more stuff I wanna include but it’ll have to wait until next time. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Word up dudebombs. Here’s your Christmas-related links… Create-a-snowflake, hax0red santa, and uh… UWO strip thinger… Actually that’s not Christmas related at all.

I really don’t like SNL anymore and I can’t remember the last time I watched it on TV, but this “Chronicles of Narnia rap” is really funny. We actually watched that movie the other day, I downloaded it… And I fell asleep like halfway through, apparently it was pretty good though.

I don’t even know how I came across this game, but I ended up playing it for almost an hour… It’s definitely worth checking out if you have some time to kill.

Here is an interesting article on Facebook and some conspiracy theory type stuff… And while you’re at it, you should probably all “facebook me. I mean come on, it makes sense. Creepy shit man, big brother is watching, yadda yadda.

On a somewhat related note… I was in the Verizon store today. I stopped in there because someone told me they clean phones. My phone is all messed up (and has been since the beginning of the month) and most of the buttons don’t work. Conveniently enough, the ’send’ and ‘ok’ buttons are two of the ones that don’t work, so I can’t call anyone or read my text messages, but when people call me I can talk to them. This is all because one of my awesome friends threw my phone in a pitcher of lemonade. Anyway, enough about that. The guy told me that they don’t clean them, and (just as I suspected) my only option was to buy a new phone at retail price. Sweet. I asked if I could use one of my friends old phones, or get a phone off of eBay, and he told me that I could, but it’d cost $20 to activate, and they couldn’t do it unless the phone was GPS-compatible. I asked him why, and he said “so George Bush can listen to your phone calls”, and although that might be a little far-fetched, it is a government/FCC thing, and I definitely don’t like that. He told me that they’re not allowed to activate any phones that don’t have GPS enabled on them. I’m not paranoid or anything, but there’s gotta be a reason for that. Alright, well that’s all I have time for now. This post was definitely rushed as shit but I have a lot of stuff going on now so… I’ll post later, few days or whatever - I’m heading out for the night, later trogs.

New layout. I actually did this as a final project for one of my classes, I ‘m not super thrilled with it but it’ll suffice until I can think of something better, or the snow starts to melt off of those letters up there. I don’t have a whole lot of time to post right now, but I just finished my last final, so I’m free for a month… Such a good feeling to be done with all this school stuff.

Just when you thought the RIAA couldn’t chug anymore grundle, they’ve decided to go after lyrics sites. Yeah that’s right, the sites that 16-year-olds use to look up Fallout Boy lyrics and put them in their AIM profiles. That’s seriously out of control… You can read more here.

This girl, who goes by the name of “Jah Jah”, has gotta be the worst rapper I’ve ever heard. She’s pretty hot though. Seriously, listen to those songs, they’re god awful. Check it out though - “I became a full fledged rapper after a viscious pitbull attacked me in 1997 almost losing my life.” This is ridiculous.

If you haven’t already seen it, check out The Music Genome Project. You tell it some of the music you like, and it finds similiar bands… But it’s a lot more in-depth then it sounds. Definitely check it out if you’re a music fan… In general.

So yeah… You can get a free copy of “How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-Lawyers” here. I’m definitely gonna need one of these for all the crap that’s going on right now.

I promised I’d plug slez.net, looks like a decent site too, so check that out. Better post coming soon, I promise. Would I lie to you?