Awh maian.
I'm going to go on vacation next week, adding 4 new states to my count. I'm going to VERMONT! That's easily going to be the smallest state I've ever been to. I think the smallest state I've been to so far is Indiana, which isn't small at all O_o.
I'm going to Niagara Falls, Toronto, Adirondack Park (northern New York) and Vermont. I talked on the phone with Jimmy for like 2 hours O_o...lots of catching up and meaningful conversation.
I like meaningful conversation. It reminds me that there really are some people out there who have thoughts, and that there are even better people who are willing to share their thoughts. Because if you have a thought and you don't share it, no one else can use it. Isn't that a bit selfish?
That's what this blog is for, mostly.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
I am writing here to confirm that I am still living.
And I am glad to have experienced one of the few frontiers of this state that I hadn't before. Lemmetellyaz all about my trip.
Monday: I pick up Ashwin in Woodridge around 1:30. Then we drive south toward Macy's. I took the new I-355 extension south all the way to I-80, and lemmetellyaz it was smooth sailing the whole time. It wasn't being used all that much, actually. We stopped in Rantoul for gas and for Arby's. Yay, roast beef sandwiches from Arby's. Makes my mouth water and my stomach cringe.
We got to Macy's around 6 I think. His parents are so nice, especially his mom.
Tuesday: Pack up and gtfo. We left in the late morning and drove south. We ate lunch at the Steak n' Shake in Mt. Vernon. We continued to Sparta where we took pictures in front of the sign that says "Welcome to Sparta" on the east side of town. After that we went to Chester and saw the statue Popeye. Also, I got gas. We passed by a lumber store with a sign that read "free wood" next to a pile of wood scraps. We took some and used it for our campfire that night.
Some of the most beautiful turf we saw was in southwestern Illinois along Illinois Route 151 and Route 3. That area of Randolph County is NICE (gmts).
We got food at Tom's in Murphysboro and the gas station canopy thing had "Our food gives you gas" on it. Har dee har har. We camped at Giant City State Park, which was miserable. Camping can be fun, but I feared for my life in a small way. This was because of harmless little cicadas.
Cicadas -> noise -> inability to sleep -> no sleep -> inability to drive alert -> crash -> injury or death
I should have figured out that I could have let Macy do the driving if I was unable to. Meh.
Wednesday: I probably ended up with 3 to 4 hours of sleep, tops. I woke up probably 10 - 15 times during the night because of the noise. The campsite was NICE though, outside of the damn cicadas. I was surprised to be decently alert despite them. IMSA had taught me to stockpile on sleep when I could (i.e. get more than I need to when I can so I can afford to get less sleep on worse days). We left Giant City to head south toward Anna and Jonesboro. We drove across the bridge spanning the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The road to that bridge was surrounded by flooded farm fields that were completely underwater. We were appreciative of the road having been built about 10 feet higher in elevation than the surrounding land. It was like driving on a causeway. We drove south to Cairo just to say we've been to the southern tip of Illinois, but we were disappointed to see that Cairo is a horrendous dump of a town. It's dilapidated and trashy now; I don't know what happened. After that was Metropolis, where we saw the Superman statue. (In case you are wondering, the name "Metropolis" came before the comics, so the people there said "Hey, we're the only city in the USA named Metropolis!" And THEN they made the statue). I drove across the border into Kentucky and got gas in Paducah. And we ate at Steak n' Shake AGAIN...and Macy got a banana shake AGAIN...
We went swimming at Lake Glendale Recreation Area in the Shawnee National Forest for a few hours. There were these 15-ish year old girls there calling each other sluts and swearing a lot. I liked how we could venture out to where we couldn't stand in the water and actually swim.
Finally, we drove to Cave-in-Rock State Park. About 5 miles away, at the southwest corner of IL1 and IL146, I dropped my cell phone on the gravel and lost it. I started freaking out looking for it about 45 mins. later. I went back to look for it. That street corner was the last place I was going to look before I planned on giving up. I drove up to the gravel patch, and looked out the window. Even though no one else was in the car, I bleated out, "OHHH MY GOD." I was totally amazed that I found it.
Thursday: Ashwin woke up late this day, so it took a while for us to get moving. But when we did, we went to the cave after which Cave-in-Rock State Park is named. It was cool, but there was too much graffiti. We climbed around in there for a good hour or so. We found sandstone-in-the-making, broke the layers apart and skipped the rocks on the Ohio River. The cave opening faces the river itself.
Then we drove to the Garden of the Gods, which was easily the most amazing part of the trip. Look at the pictures on facebook. Famazing. Big cliffs, rock formations, lots of climbing around, and other stuff.
Then we ate at NOT-STEAK-N-SHAKE...and by that I mean "Sonic." You know, one of thems drive-in places that you see commercials for but never see. They don't have them in northern Illinois, but they sure do in southern Illinois. The one we went to was in Harrisburg. We drove to Old Shawneetown, a sort-of-ghost-town on the Ohio River. That was kind of a letdown, because it just looked like a relatively crappy small town. There was a town called Equality, and there was an old phone booth there; I took a picture of it. We went to Olney, a town in southeastern Illinois which is proud to be the home of white squirrels. We parked the car in the park that people tell me is the place to find them. So I got out of the car and looked around, and I was lucky enough to find one within a minute or so. It was probably 200 feet away or so, running up a tree. So the three of us walked toward the tree to find it. I saw it on a branch which pointed directly away from the direction we were coming from. But I found it, just sitting on that branch. He was still just sitting there as I took 2 pictures of it, one or both of which are on facebook.
Then we drove straight to Macy's to spend the last night. I got gas in Albion, and they sold individual bottles of Jones sodas there for only $1.19. I'll have to remember that!
Friday: Drove home. Nothing special. I-57 to Kankakee, IL102 to Wilmington, I-55 to Plainfield. Woohoo. Got gas in Bourbonnais. Woohoo.
My sign collection has exploded because of this trip. I'll never have to go south of I-64 for anything ever again, except for three little spots (Monroe County, Franklin/Williamson Counties, and White County). But my original collection of just the highway shields is 91% complete. I only need Illinois Routes 35, 73, 98, 135, 155, 156, 164, 138, 109, 255, 267, 336, and 394; and Interstates 172, 180, 280, and 474.
I actually have two different collections. One is of the different numbers (a sign for Route 1, a sign for Route 2, etc.). The other collection is of pictures for my website--this consists of the signs you see at intersections (i.e. Route 127 <- Route 149 ->). You can look at the website to see how far I've come with those.
As for now, I'm just chillin' at home. We're going on vacation next week, so that means I have a week now between trips. And after that, it's less than 2 weeks til college. I don't fucking want to go to college. I like not doing bullshit work. I like doing the kind of work I like to do.
But I know that you don't just live life to smell the flowers. You have to PLANT SOME YOURSELF!!
And I am glad to have experienced one of the few frontiers of this state that I hadn't before. Lemmetellyaz all about my trip.
Monday: I pick up Ashwin in Woodridge around 1:30. Then we drive south toward Macy's. I took the new I-355 extension south all the way to I-80, and lemmetellyaz it was smooth sailing the whole time. It wasn't being used all that much, actually. We stopped in Rantoul for gas and for Arby's. Yay, roast beef sandwiches from Arby's. Makes my mouth water and my stomach cringe.
We got to Macy's around 6 I think. His parents are so nice, especially his mom.
Tuesday: Pack up and gtfo. We left in the late morning and drove south. We ate lunch at the Steak n' Shake in Mt. Vernon. We continued to Sparta where we took pictures in front of the sign that says "Welcome to Sparta" on the east side of town. After that we went to Chester and saw the statue Popeye. Also, I got gas. We passed by a lumber store with a sign that read "free wood" next to a pile of wood scraps. We took some and used it for our campfire that night.
Some of the most beautiful turf we saw was in southwestern Illinois along Illinois Route 151 and Route 3. That area of Randolph County is NICE (gmts).
We got food at Tom's in Murphysboro and the gas station canopy thing had "Our food gives you gas" on it. Har dee har har. We camped at Giant City State Park, which was miserable. Camping can be fun, but I feared for my life in a small way. This was because of harmless little cicadas.
Cicadas -> noise -> inability to sleep -> no sleep -> inability to drive alert -> crash -> injury or death
I should have figured out that I could have let Macy do the driving if I was unable to. Meh.
Wednesday: I probably ended up with 3 to 4 hours of sleep, tops. I woke up probably 10 - 15 times during the night because of the noise. The campsite was NICE though, outside of the damn cicadas. I was surprised to be decently alert despite them. IMSA had taught me to stockpile on sleep when I could (i.e. get more than I need to when I can so I can afford to get less sleep on worse days). We left Giant City to head south toward Anna and Jonesboro. We drove across the bridge spanning the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The road to that bridge was surrounded by flooded farm fields that were completely underwater. We were appreciative of the road having been built about 10 feet higher in elevation than the surrounding land. It was like driving on a causeway. We drove south to Cairo just to say we've been to the southern tip of Illinois, but we were disappointed to see that Cairo is a horrendous dump of a town. It's dilapidated and trashy now; I don't know what happened. After that was Metropolis, where we saw the Superman statue. (In case you are wondering, the name "Metropolis" came before the comics, so the people there said "Hey, we're the only city in the USA named Metropolis!" And THEN they made the statue). I drove across the border into Kentucky and got gas in Paducah. And we ate at Steak n' Shake AGAIN...and Macy got a banana shake AGAIN...
We went swimming at Lake Glendale Recreation Area in the Shawnee National Forest for a few hours. There were these 15-ish year old girls there calling each other sluts and swearing a lot. I liked how we could venture out to where we couldn't stand in the water and actually swim.
Finally, we drove to Cave-in-Rock State Park. About 5 miles away, at the southwest corner of IL1 and IL146, I dropped my cell phone on the gravel and lost it. I started freaking out looking for it about 45 mins. later. I went back to look for it. That street corner was the last place I was going to look before I planned on giving up. I drove up to the gravel patch, and looked out the window. Even though no one else was in the car, I bleated out, "OHHH MY GOD." I was totally amazed that I found it.
Thursday: Ashwin woke up late this day, so it took a while for us to get moving. But when we did, we went to the cave after which Cave-in-Rock State Park is named. It was cool, but there was too much graffiti. We climbed around in there for a good hour or so. We found sandstone-in-the-making, broke the layers apart and skipped the rocks on the Ohio River. The cave opening faces the river itself.
Then we drove to the Garden of the Gods, which was easily the most amazing part of the trip. Look at the pictures on facebook. Famazing. Big cliffs, rock formations, lots of climbing around, and other stuff.
Then we ate at NOT-STEAK-N-SHAKE...and by that I mean "Sonic." You know, one of thems drive-in places that you see commercials for but never see. They don't have them in northern Illinois, but they sure do in southern Illinois. The one we went to was in Harrisburg. We drove to Old Shawneetown, a sort-of-ghost-town on the Ohio River. That was kind of a letdown, because it just looked like a relatively crappy small town. There was a town called Equality, and there was an old phone booth there; I took a picture of it. We went to Olney, a town in southeastern Illinois which is proud to be the home of white squirrels. We parked the car in the park that people tell me is the place to find them. So I got out of the car and looked around, and I was lucky enough to find one within a minute or so. It was probably 200 feet away or so, running up a tree. So the three of us walked toward the tree to find it. I saw it on a branch which pointed directly away from the direction we were coming from. But I found it, just sitting on that branch. He was still just sitting there as I took 2 pictures of it, one or both of which are on facebook.
Then we drove straight to Macy's to spend the last night. I got gas in Albion, and they sold individual bottles of Jones sodas there for only $1.19. I'll have to remember that!
Friday: Drove home. Nothing special. I-57 to Kankakee, IL102 to Wilmington, I-55 to Plainfield. Woohoo. Got gas in Bourbonnais. Woohoo.
My sign collection has exploded because of this trip. I'll never have to go south of I-64 for anything ever again, except for three little spots (Monroe County, Franklin/Williamson Counties, and White County). But my original collection of just the highway shields is 91% complete. I only need Illinois Routes 35, 73, 98, 135, 155, 156, 164, 138, 109, 255, 267, 336, and 394; and Interstates 172, 180, 280, and 474.
I actually have two different collections. One is of the different numbers (a sign for Route 1, a sign for Route 2, etc.). The other collection is of pictures for my website--this consists of the signs you see at intersections (i.e. Route 127 <- Route 149 ->). You can look at the website to see how far I've come with those.
As for now, I'm just chillin' at home. We're going on vacation next week, so that means I have a week now between trips. And after that, it's less than 2 weeks til college. I don't fucking want to go to college. I like not doing bullshit work. I like doing the kind of work I like to do.
But I know that you don't just live life to smell the flowers. You have to PLANT SOME YOURSELF!!
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Holy shit. I'm gonna die. In a good way. I think? aghhhh, start over.
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Holy shit. I'm gonna die. But it'll be fun. And I'm not actually going to die.
Wait. I'm gonna die, but I'm not going to die? First of all, one is "gonna", and then in the other I actually bothered to write out the whole thing. But more importantly, that's a ridiculous contradiction. OK. ANYWAY.
I'm going to go on a big ol' camping trip. I'ma drivin down da Macy's and then to southern Illinois. And no, you Chicago tards, I'm not going to Peoria, Bloomington, or Rockford or any other place you consider 'southern Illinois'. You should get that checked out, seriously. Come on. Rockford is actually further NORTH than Chicago! I'm talking about Carbondale, Chester, Cave-in-Rock, Cairo, and places like that. Ones that are south of I-64 (gmts).
For future reference, "gmts" stands for "Google Map that shit." I've typed it before, and I talk about obscure locations a lot so I thought I would make it more convenient for future use. Also, it has a cuss word in it, and they tend to make phrases with cuss words in them into abbreviations like that (wtf, stfu, lmao, etc. (that last one isn't an abbreviation--I'm actually using that the way it's intended to be used)). Google Maps is the best. Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg knew what they were talking about (PLEASE tell me somebody gets that reference).
I'm going to stay the night at Macy's in Charleston tomorrow night, go camping for 2 nights, sleep at Macy's Thursday night, and come home Friday. And I'm bringing Ashwin with me! (And Macy, of course.)
We're going to go to:
Chester
SPARTA!!!! That's right. Sparta. Just so we can say that three-word line we all know and love (the males tend to anyway)...
Johnson Creek Recreation Area (plus I need to add Route 151 to my collection (gmts))
Giant City State Park
Metropolis (Superman that ho)
Cairo (the southern tip of Illinois, just for shiggles) (It's supposed to be 100°F there Tuesday; good thing we're going Wednesday!)
Garden of the Gods (probably the highlight of the trip)
Cave-in-Rock
Olney (a town full of albino squirrels)
It's going to be awesome. Except for the fact that it's going to be 90°F and humid during the day. Make that low-mid 90's on Wednesday, but at Johnson Creek we're going to go swimming. So it's not THAT bad...except when we have to camp. At night. I hope we don't have to go to sleep when it feels like you're wading in a bowl of fucking chicken noodle soup outside.
Oh, and I get to add a SHITload of signs to my collection when we do this =)
Going to bed so I can leave tomorrow! I should get an oil change for my dad's car tomorrow...and I leave at 12:30. Bye y'all! (except maceface and the lil guy)
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Holy shit. I'm gonna die. But it'll be fun. And I'm not actually going to die.
Wait. I'm gonna die, but I'm not going to die? First of all, one is "gonna", and then in the other I actually bothered to write out the whole thing. But more importantly, that's a ridiculous contradiction. OK. ANYWAY.
I'm going to go on a big ol' camping trip. I'ma drivin down da Macy's and then to southern Illinois. And no, you Chicago tards, I'm not going to Peoria, Bloomington, or Rockford or any other place you consider 'southern Illinois'. You should get that checked out, seriously. Come on. Rockford is actually further NORTH than Chicago! I'm talking about Carbondale, Chester, Cave-in-Rock, Cairo, and places like that. Ones that are south of I-64 (gmts).
For future reference, "gmts" stands for "Google Map that shit." I've typed it before, and I talk about obscure locations a lot so I thought I would make it more convenient for future use. Also, it has a cuss word in it, and they tend to make phrases with cuss words in them into abbreviations like that (wtf, stfu, lmao, etc. (that last one isn't an abbreviation--I'm actually using that the way it's intended to be used)). Google Maps is the best. Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg knew what they were talking about (PLEASE tell me somebody gets that reference).
I'm going to stay the night at Macy's in Charleston tomorrow night, go camping for 2 nights, sleep at Macy's Thursday night, and come home Friday. And I'm bringing Ashwin with me! (And Macy, of course.)
We're going to go to:
Chester
SPARTA!!!! That's right. Sparta. Just so we can say that three-word line we all know and love (the males tend to anyway)...
Johnson Creek Recreation Area (plus I need to add Route 151 to my collection (gmts))
Giant City State Park
Metropolis (Superman that ho)
Cairo (the southern tip of Illinois, just for shiggles) (It's supposed to be 100°F there Tuesday; good thing we're going Wednesday!)
Garden of the Gods (probably the highlight of the trip)
Cave-in-Rock
Olney (a town full of albino squirrels)
It's going to be awesome. Except for the fact that it's going to be 90°F and humid during the day. Make that low-mid 90's on Wednesday, but at Johnson Creek we're going to go swimming. So it's not THAT bad...except when we have to camp. At night. I hope we don't have to go to sleep when it feels like you're wading in a bowl of fucking chicken noodle soup outside.
Oh, and I get to add a SHITload of signs to my collection when we do this =)
Going to bed so I can leave tomorrow! I should get an oil change for my dad's car tomorrow...and I leave at 12:30. Bye y'all! (except maceface and the lil guy)
I have a HUGE amount of respect of people who keep it real and are bluntly honest, but Katy Perry annoys me. She has a disposition of being "BAD" (does the quotes, Dr. Evil-style). Her image is stupid like any counterculture is stupid--because if you really didn't bear traditional values, you wouldn't feel the need to GO AGAINST THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE! What I mean is that whenever these "rebels" (yes, Dr. Evil-style again) say they hate a certain set of values over and over and over, they are merely showing that they cannot imagine living life under any other set of values in the first place. Let's say that some teenager is raised a Christian all of his life and then he decides to get into dark stuff, like wearing an armband with a pentagram in it, going all "goth" and satanic worship. I would see stuff like this in high school and sigh, because all I would see is someone who wants to show how he is different from everyone else, but what he's actually showing is that he can't break away from the very set of values he is claiming to condemn. If you want to be different, then don't do the opposite. Do something different! Not something...opposite!
That's the first thing that gets on my nerves about Katy. I find it hilarious that before her current "bad" (Dr. Evil) side, she was a Christian pop star. Fucking.hilarious.
The other thing is that she's very open about being a naughty, raunchy person in her songs. I've heard that she's actually not a raunchy, blunt person off-set (I'm guessing just a good Christian girl), but her music is just bad and without regret.
HAVE REGRETS. If you make a mistake and you don't regret it, you don't feel bad about it. If you don't feel bad about something then you don't pick up the notion that you might well have done something wrong. If you don't have an inkling that you might have done something wrong, you won't figure out that you made a mistake. And since we learn from our mistakes, you don't learn anything if you don't notice your mistake. If you don't learn anything, you end up being stupid all your life, and the truth is that in the end, PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO REGRETS ARE STUPID.
But if you have regrets, don't dwell on them. Learn your lesson, and get over them. If you dwell on your regrets, you become depressed. If you become depressed, you won't want to go out and experience the world. If you don't experience the world, you won't gain any experience and you won't make mistakes and have triumphs from which you can learn about life. If you don't learn anything, you end up being stupid all your life, and the truth is that in the end, PEOPLE WHO DWELL ON THEIR REGRETS ARE STUPID.
DON'T BE STUPID!
That's the first thing that gets on my nerves about Katy. I find it hilarious that before her current "bad" (Dr. Evil) side, she was a Christian pop star. Fucking.hilarious.
The other thing is that she's very open about being a naughty, raunchy person in her songs. I've heard that she's actually not a raunchy, blunt person off-set (I'm guessing just a good Christian girl), but her music is just bad and without regret.
HAVE REGRETS. If you make a mistake and you don't regret it, you don't feel bad about it. If you don't feel bad about something then you don't pick up the notion that you might well have done something wrong. If you don't have an inkling that you might have done something wrong, you won't figure out that you made a mistake. And since we learn from our mistakes, you don't learn anything if you don't notice your mistake. If you don't learn anything, you end up being stupid all your life, and the truth is that in the end, PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO REGRETS ARE STUPID.
But if you have regrets, don't dwell on them. Learn your lesson, and get over them. If you dwell on your regrets, you become depressed. If you become depressed, you won't want to go out and experience the world. If you don't experience the world, you won't gain any experience and you won't make mistakes and have triumphs from which you can learn about life. If you don't learn anything, you end up being stupid all your life, and the truth is that in the end, PEOPLE WHO DWELL ON THEIR REGRETS ARE STUPID.
DON'T BE STUPID!
Friday, July 18, 2008
I'm tired of all this bipolarity. During school, I work my ass off, and at home, I do nothing. Why can't I do a more moderate amount of work for a longer period of time?
The plans for the camping trip are slowly falling apart, dissolving like a tablet of alka-seltzer. I guess Macy and I will figure something out to do this weekend. I REALLY WANT TO FINISH MY SIGN COLLECTION! And all I really need to do is go to Jersey County, southern Illinois (all over the area south of I-64), Goodenow, East Dubuque, Quincy, and North Pekin. Most of the signs are in southern Illinois, and those are the hardest to get too. I really hope I can go down there for a couple of days.
The plans for the camping trip are slowly falling apart, dissolving like a tablet of alka-seltzer. I guess Macy and I will figure something out to do this weekend. I REALLY WANT TO FINISH MY SIGN COLLECTION! And all I really need to do is go to Jersey County, southern Illinois (all over the area south of I-64), Goodenow, East Dubuque, Quincy, and North Pekin. Most of the signs are in southern Illinois, and those are the hardest to get too. I really hope I can go down there for a couple of days.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
I think the next time I post, I'll put up a collection of other dumb stuff?
I need to get more important people to this page.
You know what- screw the collection of dumb stuff.
Life is too easy and issue-free now for me to have important things to talk about. That's just how summer works.
This blog is made for me to talk about myself. But what about you? I want to know what you have to say too. Tell me some of your ideas. It's constructive and it's fun to learn what other people have to say.
I need to get more important people to this page.
You know what- screw the collection of dumb stuff.
Life is too easy and issue-free now for me to have important things to talk about. That's just how summer works.
This blog is made for me to talk about myself. But what about you? I want to know what you have to say too. Tell me some of your ideas. It's constructive and it's fun to learn what other people have to say.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Today's feature...STUPID YOUTUBE CRAP!
That's right fellas! I'm talking about stupid youtube crap today! I'm going to share with you all the dumb crap on that site for all of you to enjoy.
I think we've all seen this first one at some point. It's the annoying commercial for the Flea Market in Montgomery, Alabama, with that creepy black dude with the scary, googly eyes.
I've got a funny story about this, actually. I looked for this place on google maps just for shiggles (knowing me, right?), and I found the place! I also found reviews of it. In one of the reviews a shopper reviewed the commercial "catchy" (I'm guessing she was referring to this one). Catchy? Maybe in a hypnotic sort of way, because he repeats the SAME SHIT OVER AND OVER for two minutes. I know the Backstreet Boys and a lot of other late 90's pop artists used hypnosis in their music. Take something catchy, repeat it more than 3 times, and then it's stuck in your head. Why bother buying the CD if you're going to be listening to it in your mind for the week after you hear the song in the first place? I think they should stop worrying about losing money to people pirating their music using the internet--that's probably the REAL reason they didn't make as much money! Actually, if they wrote something that wasn't as goddamn repetitive, people like me would appreciate it more and be even more inclined to purchase it.
ANYWAYS...the second piece of youtube CRAP is this old commercial from a Baltimore car dealer. Zexi showed me it and I cracked up. Ah, the wonders of swearing in different contexts.
This next one is actually a fad. It's the dramatic chipmunk fad. I don't get it. What is so wonderful about a chipmunk turning around with its eyes wide open? I see squirrels who do this in front of my car every week! (No animals were harmed in the making of this ...statement? I guess? =P) Here's a video that puts a lot of versions of the dramatic chipmunk video...Would you even call it a video? Let's call it a clip...it's only like 5 seconds long.
Number four is stupid but hilarious. It's really hilarious. I found this a long time ago. It's time for POTTER PUPPET PALS! It makes me want to laugh and beat myself over the head at the same time. Have at it.
THIS ONE TAKES THE CAKE. THIS IS THE DUMBEST THING ON YOUTUBE. AND IT GOES ON FOR A FUCKING HALF-HOUR!
The demented cartoon movie. Clip after clip after stupid crappity-crap-crap. Watch the whole thing just to say that you did and so you can complain to the whole world that you forced yourself to do it and so people can think "wow, you're complaining about it but you were still stupid enough to keep watching it as painful as it was."... orrrr don't.
That's it for now!
And now for an addition to the top-ten list of the best things ever:
Japanese gummi candy.
It tastes like real fruit because it's made from real fruit.
It comes in 11 flavors.
And every flavor is oh-so good.
Go to the Asia supermarket on Naper Blvd. just north of US34, or H-mart, or Chinatown.
IT ROCKS!!
I think we've all seen this first one at some point. It's the annoying commercial for the Flea Market in Montgomery, Alabama, with that creepy black dude with the scary, googly eyes.
I've got a funny story about this, actually. I looked for this place on google maps just for shiggles (knowing me, right?), and I found the place! I also found reviews of it. In one of the reviews a shopper reviewed the commercial "catchy" (I'm guessing she was referring to this one). Catchy? Maybe in a hypnotic sort of way, because he repeats the SAME SHIT OVER AND OVER for two minutes. I know the Backstreet Boys and a lot of other late 90's pop artists used hypnosis in their music. Take something catchy, repeat it more than 3 times, and then it's stuck in your head. Why bother buying the CD if you're going to be listening to it in your mind for the week after you hear the song in the first place? I think they should stop worrying about losing money to people pirating their music using the internet--that's probably the REAL reason they didn't make as much money! Actually, if they wrote something that wasn't as goddamn repetitive, people like me would appreciate it more and be even more inclined to purchase it.
ANYWAYS...the second piece of youtube CRAP is this old commercial from a Baltimore car dealer. Zexi showed me it and I cracked up. Ah, the wonders of swearing in different contexts.
This next one is actually a fad. It's the dramatic chipmunk fad. I don't get it. What is so wonderful about a chipmunk turning around with its eyes wide open? I see squirrels who do this in front of my car every week! (No animals were harmed in the making of this ...statement? I guess? =P) Here's a video that puts a lot of versions of the dramatic chipmunk video...Would you even call it a video? Let's call it a clip...it's only like 5 seconds long.
Number four is stupid but hilarious. It's really hilarious. I found this a long time ago. It's time for POTTER PUPPET PALS! It makes me want to laugh and beat myself over the head at the same time. Have at it.
THIS ONE TAKES THE CAKE. THIS IS THE DUMBEST THING ON YOUTUBE. AND IT GOES ON FOR A FUCKING HALF-HOUR!
The demented cartoon movie. Clip after clip after stupid crappity-crap-crap. Watch the whole thing just to say that you did and so you can complain to the whole world that you forced yourself to do it and so people can think "wow, you're complaining about it but you were still stupid enough to keep watching it as painful as it was."... orrrr don't.
That's it for now!
And now for an addition to the top-ten list of the best things ever:
Japanese gummi candy.
It tastes like real fruit because it's made from real fruit.
It comes in 11 flavors.
And every flavor is oh-so good.
Go to the Asia supermarket on Naper Blvd. just north of US34, or H-mart, or Chinatown.
IT ROCKS!!
Monday, July 14, 2008
This is a summary of all of the virtual land I own on the web:
Well, there's this...
And my website with all of my road signs
My facebook
My myspace...which I pay just about NO attention to
I had a livejournal back in the day, that's around somewhere.
That's all the stuff I can think of!
Well, there's this...
And my website with all of my road signs
My facebook
My myspace...which I pay just about NO attention to
I had a livejournal back in the day, that's around somewhere.
That's all the stuff I can think of!
Well, how's this for neglecting to write? Three and a half friggin weeks. And in summer. I should take a post-it note and write LAME on it in really big letters and stick it to my forehead.
But if I did that now, I wouldn't be able to see what I'm typing...and I might make a really bad typo like forgetting the "R" in shirt...because I've done that before...wow, maybe I should make another post-it note with "SIR RAMBLES-A-LOT" on it since that's what I'm doing...
ANYWAY
The big news is that my IMSA friend count is up to twenty-seven! I've been keeping track of how many friends from IMSA I've seen this summer. I've even seen Valerie, Macy, and Colin, all of which live 4 or more hours from my house! *FF7 victory blurb plays*
I've actually never played FF7 but I think all of us who play/have played copious amounts of video games know that sound blurb.
Let's see that list of IMSA friends I've seen:
My graduation party, June 1, 2008:
Zexi, Macy, Ashwin, Erika, Chris, and Aya (6)
Macy stayed at my house until June 7
Macy and I hung out with Dean on the 7th (7)
Went to Janelle's on the 8th (8)
Went to Kirk's graduation party on the 15th (I think?), saw Connor too (10)
Martin's graduation party, June 16th:
Martin, Ju, Adam, Phoebe, Asya, (15)
Went to Zexi's apartment in Evanston on the 20th/21st (I think?)
Macy, Steven, Jake, C-Li and Martin (18)
Went to Connor's house in Rock Island for his grad party, June 28-29:
Connor, Dani, Neelam, Colin, Rachel, Ritchie, and Julie (24)
Valerie came up and visited July 1 and we went to the Taste of Chicago (25)
I visited Sulochana last week, and the next day Luke and I visited Chris, so I saw Luke (27)
And no, I didn't count anyone twice. -_-
I was thinking of starting a videolog/blog/whatever-thingy, except every entry has to be in a different state. The Illinois one would be the first, serving as an introductory video. I plan on being in New York and Vermont this summer (and ONTARIO!)...which means driving through Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. I've never been to New York, Vermont, Ohio, or Pennsylvania before (not to mention ANYWHERE in Canada) so this should be exciting.
I still don't know what's up with the big-ass camping trip next week. Tyler and I need to work this out.
In listing out the friends I've seen this summer, I've pretty much gone through all the cool stuff I've done this summer. Because it's not the things you do that make it cool. It's the people you do it with.
(That's like a fortune cookie...haha)
((If you didn't get the fortune cookie thing, I'll spell it out for you: add 'in bed' to the end.))
I've finished writing 4 of my 12 pieces into the computer and summer's already half over...better get cracking =D
My third song is stuck in my head...isn't that weird?
I'm really incoherent and stuff. You can tell that by how I jump from idea to idea, and by counting how many times I switch paragraphs. Like this:
I'm working on a nice map now. I think I'll take a picture of it and post it.
When I was contemplating the awesomeness of the internet, I was thinking of how amazing the internet is for making it easy to access information. But I never thought of how the internet makes is easy to share who we are with our friends and with the rest of the world.
And Chris showed me the SCARIEST YOUTUBE VIDEO ON EARTH. It's a video of Ronald McDonald. Ever heard the phrase, "can't sleep; clowns will eat me"? It's like that.
You can watch it, but you've been warned. It's here.
Leave me a comment so I know that there's somebody alive out there =)
But if I did that now, I wouldn't be able to see what I'm typing...and I might make a really bad typo like forgetting the "R" in shirt...because I've done that before...wow, maybe I should make another post-it note with "SIR RAMBLES-A-LOT" on it since that's what I'm doing...
ANYWAY
The big news is that my IMSA friend count is up to twenty-seven! I've been keeping track of how many friends from IMSA I've seen this summer. I've even seen Valerie, Macy, and Colin, all of which live 4 or more hours from my house! *FF7 victory blurb plays*
I've actually never played FF7 but I think all of us who play/have played copious amounts of video games know that sound blurb.
Let's see that list of IMSA friends I've seen:
My graduation party, June 1, 2008:
Zexi, Macy, Ashwin, Erika, Chris, and Aya (6)
Macy stayed at my house until June 7
Macy and I hung out with Dean on the 7th (7)
Went to Janelle's on the 8th (8)
Went to Kirk's graduation party on the 15th (I think?), saw Connor too (10)
Martin's graduation party, June 16th:
Martin, Ju, Adam, Phoebe, Asya, (15)
Went to Zexi's apartment in Evanston on the 20th/21st (I think?)
Macy, Steven, Jake, C-Li and Martin (18)
Went to Connor's house in Rock Island for his grad party, June 28-29:
Connor, Dani, Neelam, Colin, Rachel, Ritchie, and Julie (24)
Valerie came up and visited July 1 and we went to the Taste of Chicago (25)
I visited Sulochana last week, and the next day Luke and I visited Chris, so I saw Luke (27)
And no, I didn't count anyone twice. -_-
I was thinking of starting a videolog/blog/whatever-thingy, except every entry has to be in a different state. The Illinois one would be the first, serving as an introductory video. I plan on being in New York and Vermont this summer (and ONTARIO!)...which means driving through Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. I've never been to New York, Vermont, Ohio, or Pennsylvania before (not to mention ANYWHERE in Canada) so this should be exciting.
I still don't know what's up with the big-ass camping trip next week. Tyler and I need to work this out.
In listing out the friends I've seen this summer, I've pretty much gone through all the cool stuff I've done this summer. Because it's not the things you do that make it cool. It's the people you do it with.
(That's like a fortune cookie...haha)
((If you didn't get the fortune cookie thing, I'll spell it out for you: add 'in bed' to the end.))
I've finished writing 4 of my 12 pieces into the computer and summer's already half over...better get cracking =D
My third song is stuck in my head...isn't that weird?
I'm really incoherent and stuff. You can tell that by how I jump from idea to idea, and by counting how many times I switch paragraphs. Like this:
I'm working on a nice map now. I think I'll take a picture of it and post it.
When I was contemplating the awesomeness of the internet, I was thinking of how amazing the internet is for making it easy to access information. But I never thought of how the internet makes is easy to share who we are with our friends and with the rest of the world.
And Chris showed me the SCARIEST YOUTUBE VIDEO ON EARTH. It's a video of Ronald McDonald. Ever heard the phrase, "can't sleep; clowns will eat me"? It's like that.
You can watch it, but you've been warned. It's here.
Leave me a comment so I know that there's somebody alive out there =)
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