I think most of you know how I feel about cops. I have the feeling that from the outside looking in, it might seem like I have the attitude of your average fifteen year old who “dislikes” authority for no reason, but I feel like I have more than my share of reasons to not be to fond of your average cop. The other day I got pulled over doing around 80. I know I wasn’t going in excess of 85 miles an hour. Now I can’t justify being mad about getting a speeding ticket, I broke the law and therefore I deserved it. But the cop told me I was doing well over 90 miles an hour, which is absolute crap - He also wrote that on the ticket. Not only that, he also gave me a fine for not wearing a seatbelt. I had no idea they enforced that in PA… If I decide I want to throw my body through my cars windshield, shouldn’t that be my choice? Okay, maybe not, but I think that’s pretty ridiculous. I now owe around $250 to the Pennsylvania State Troopers. Sweet. Okay, so that stories nothing to freak out about I guess. But about a week ago, my friends Kyle and Christie decided to go to Carlisle to drink with some friends. Carlisle is about 20 minutes from here. One of the friends decided he was okay to drive (he had two beers) and so he said he’d bring them back here. He was speeding and got pulled over. The cop smelled alcohol, so the kid got a DUI, and Kyle got an underage. That’s not the messed up part though. The cop handcuffed the kid and put him in the back of the cop car, and then dropped Kyle and Christie off at a truck stop about 15 miles from here. This was at 3:30 in the morning. Kyle told the cop he didn’t have a cell phone on him, so he wouldn’t be able to call anyone to pick him up. The cop said “good luck” and drove off. Now I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want to be left at a shady truckstop in the middle of nowhere at that time of night, especially with an attractive girl - Nothing good can come from that. So I’m passed out and I get a call from Kyle, he tells me what happened, and I was curious how he managed to call me if he didn’t have a phone. He had borrowed money from a trucker, and the only reason he remembered my phone number was because of phonespell.org, he remembered that my phone number was ***-RICE. Strange, but useful. Anyway… The cop told him he would be calling his parents the next morning (Saturday) when he got to his office, at 6 AM. Basically he did everything in his power to be a complete prick. I don’t think I’m an unreasonable person… I’m sure there are some decent cops out there, but I just have yet to run into any of them… Oh hey, what’s this?
Don’t Fronk With Love… That’s an awesome music video.
“The wackiest game show on television”, He Said She Said is a reality show where a bunch of guys compete to win a girl… But she has a penis. If this show ever made it to TV, I’d definitely watch it.
So last Fall we had a Halloween party here, and it got out of control, a lot more people showed up than we had expected, and someone stole my digital camera (and my roommate’s 60 GB iPod). So I saved up and got another digital camera. A few weeks ago, after a ridiculous night of drinking, I woke up and found it on the floor in my roommates room with the batteries taken out. It wasn’t turning on so I sent it to Sony, and they said it had suffered corrosion damage (meaning it was probably dropped in a toilet/pitcher of beer/etc) and that it would cost $500 to fix - Which is almost twice as much as what I paid for the camera. So that’s two digital cameras down the drain in less than a year. So the other day I found that the Sony DSC-P200 was available at Sam’s Club for $199. This is a real nice camera, 3x optical zoom and 7.2 megapixels. I’m not a Sam’s Club member, but I found a one day free trial membership coupon in a Wal-Mart circular (you can view it online here, it’s on the last page). When you use the coupon it adds 10% to your total price, so I ended up paying $230.23 for the camera, but it’s better than paying $299 for it at Amazon. So naturally, as soon as I got this camera, my cell phone got stolen. That was my sixth cell phone. I really have amazing luck. Anyone have an old cell phone laying around they want to donate to the “John Sucks At Life” foundation? I swear I’ll keep it in good condition for at least a week…
If any of you missed the Simpsons movie trailer that aired on Fox last night, you can see it here. It’s not all that exciting.
So it looks like Sony’s UMD format may be going the way of the buffalo… Who didn’t see that coming? PILLOW FIGHT!
“Hack Your Brain With An iPod” - This is pretty damn interesting, but I’m too lazy to download/crack the program, and then convert the sounds to MP3, so I can toss them on my guyPod. Someone do it for me.
This website lets you enter two phone numbers, and then it connects them to one another, making for some potentially confusing/hilarious situations. I just wasted like half an hour with it.
TOTALLY SWEET DUDE! Hoobastank is playing free concerts all over the US! Too bad that band is awful. The only stuff that’s worth listening to by them is off of this album, which is surprisingly a pretty decent one, but I’m pretty sure it’s out of print, and I bet any money they wouldn’t play a single song from it.
Being a college student, I hear lots of bad music at parties and etc. But I can honestly say “Gasolina” by Daddy Yankee is one of the worst songs I’ve encountered in a long, long time. That’s all, I just wanted to get that out. have a good week.
