Krispy

So I just woke up from a short nap, and had the most terrifying experience of my life. Well, I'd probably qualify that, I've probably had more terrifying experiences, but it definitely shook me to the core. Basically, after sleeping for oh, 30 minutes or so, I suddenly jolted up and had absolutely no memories of who I was, where I was, or how I got there. I basically had total amnesia. It only took me about a minute or so to piece things together and get my memory back, but for that minute, I felt more lost than I've ever been in my entire life. In the end, I was safely in my bed in my apartment, but geez, that time spent staring at my room and everything in it, with no memory of any of it, no memory of even my name or where I came from, it was just terrifying. My mind was racing and I was in a total panic trying to figure out what was going on. Even when some vague memories came back, it still didn't help much - I remembered my family, which led me to think I must be in my sister's house. She doesn't have a house, but remembering my sister made me think I was there. It also led me to thinking I was in Texas, not Minnesota, because my family lives in Texas.

Ugh, I'm glad it's over, but man was that just about the freakiest thing that's ever happened to me.

It's my birthday.
Post some fucking Freddie Mercury.

Doomworld forums comes with an ignore feature that hides posts by the members who are selected to be on your list. It can be accessed from the user control panel. It doesn't totally hide the fact that the person had posted there, but it does state that the person who posted is being ignored, and only takes up a little space. I've recently been pretty liberal about updating it now and then. The link that says to click to read the post (because sometimes its relevant to the discussion) doesn't seem to work though. Other than that, doomworld forums now has much fewer people who post strictly in the everything else section, have lame opinions about video games and want to talk about the economy and politics and religion (or their lack thereof) and share other rather personal details about themselves that I'd be much better off not knowing. Now browsing through doomworld is a little less taxing on my sanity to read now that I'm reading more about doom and less about stuff that makes me want to kill all of you. That would be all.

Also in before "40oz is first on my list"

Doomworld forums comes with an ignore feature that hides posts by the members who are selected to be on your list. It can be accessed from the user control panel. It doesn't totally hide the fact that the person had posted there, but it does state that the person who posted is being ignored, and only takes up a little space. I've recently been pretty liberal about updating it now and then. The link that says to click to read the post (because sometimes its relevant to the discussion) doesn't seem to work though. Other than that, doomworld forums now has much fewer people who post strictly in the everything else section, have lame opinions about video games and want to talk about the economy and politics and religion (or their lack thereof) and share other rather personal details about themselves that I'd be much better off not knowing. Now browsing through doomworld is a little less taxing on my sanity to read now that I'm reading more about doom and less about stuff that makes me want to kill all of you. That would be all.

Also in before "40oz is first on my list"

Doomworld forums comes with an ignore feature that hides posts by the members who are selected to be on your list. It can be accessed from the user control panel. It doesn't totally hide the fact that the person had posted there, but it does state that the person who posted is being ignored, and only takes up a little space. I've recently been pretty liberal about updating it now and then. The link that says to click to read the post (because sometimes its relevant to the discussion) doesn't seem to work though. Other than that, doomworld forums now has much fewer people who post strictly in the everything else section, have lame opinions about video games and want to talk about the economy and politics and religion (or their lack thereof) and share other rather personal details about themselves that I'd be much better off not knowing. Now browsing through doomworld is a little less taxing on my sanity to read now that I'm reading more about doom and less about stuff that makes me want to kill all of you. That would be all.

Also in before "40oz is first on my list"

After taking care of him for a year and a half, I was given a small "gift" for my work... this old, old piano.

http://twitpic.com/akm1nx

Does anyone want some, heh.

Hot as I expected and nice to taste the actual source of the heat instead of salsa or hot sauce with the ingredient.

http://twitpic.com/akm1nx

Does anyone want some, heh.

Hot as I expected and nice to taste the actual source of the heat instead of salsa or hot sauce with the ingredient.

So I updated my graphics driver, and I'm pretty sure I deleted my old one, however when I try to open up any game, I get this:


Help?

So I updated my graphics driver, and I'm pretty sure I deleted my old one, however when I try to open up any game, I get this:


Help?

So I updated my graphics driver, and I'm pretty sure I deleted my old one, however when I try to open up any game, I get this:


Help?

So I updated my graphics driver, and I'm pretty sure I deleted my old one, however when I try to open up any game, I get this:


Help?

So I updated my graphics driver, and I'm pretty sure I deleted my old one, however when I try to open up any game, I get this:


Help?

So I've just gotten into the kick of making my own smoothies at home and I am totally in love with them. I'm no health nut, but they fill you up with small portions so that is really cool. Also, they're really simple to make of course. My favorite experiment so far is a banana peanut butter smoothie:

*1 chopped up banana (I think I will start freezing the chopped up pieces to make the drink even cooler)
*2-3 tablespoons of creamy peanut butter
*about 1/4 cup of milk
*6 ice cubes to beef it up some

This thing tasted absolutely bangin'. I had the idea of using nutella instead of peanut butter for a future try. What smoothies or other cool homemade light snacks do you guys enjoy?

So, I just got a job at a local sandwich shop, the place is pretty small. I went in to get interviewed, and by the end of it I got the job and the manager said that I think more like a manager than an employee. It'll be nice to make some money, at least.

I've been doing a lot of late night driving these days and I nod off every time I do this one particular one and a half hour drive. One thing I've never been sure of is how long I nod off for. I usually wake up with the car still in its lane right after I've nodded off. Well last night I was delightfully surprised when I woke up to see that I was already at the sign that reads: "1 mile to exit 2". The last thing I remember before that is that I was about 10 miles from my exit. I've done this particular drive so many times that I suppose it wasn't much different than sleep walking around one's house. It was kinda like being a passenger... 'wake me up when we get there'. It was nice that I didn't have to do part of the drive.

So, I just got a bill in the mail for over 10,000 US dollars. For what, you may ask? Tuition for a class at an art college I visited once that I ended up deciding not to go to anyway. I'm not even done with high school yet (almost am, only need to do 2 electives and that's it, but I'm still not done). I didn't even sign anything at all, but out of the blue I get this shit in the mail. I've been trying to contact their finance department for the past several days about this to fix it, but they haven't called back. I've reported them to the Better Business Bureau.

Only person I managed to get in contact with was the head of admissions, who didn't bother to do anything about it, and he told me "don't worry about this, it isn't the first time this has happened". Well shit, that makes it even worse, how is that supposed to make me feel any better?

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/s2677899.shtml

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Nassau-father-son-arrested-on-weapon-charge-3682186.php#photo-3152190

I met this crazy asshole on an IRC channel. One day he admitted to me that he had an illegally sawed-off shotgun and an illegally possessed handgun (he lives in New York, like me, and New York requires a permit to possess handguns). Another user of the channel pointed me to his public profile on the website the channel is dedicated to. On his profile was longitude and lattitude coordinates to his house (seriously? seriously.) and pictures of said illegal guns. Little did I know that the CETME .308 caliber rifle pictured next to his illegal handgun was in fact a fully-automatic machinegun and not a semi-automatic rifle.

I promptly LOL'd about his stupidity and proceeded to paste his public profile in several channels and one person, who was a member of both channels, took notice and LOL'd along with me. During this time, we noted several very disturbing comments and an attitude that suggested that he and his father believed national chaos was imminent and that if it came about that he was going to be free of moral scruples. This was the impetus for us to report him to New York state authorities. We compiled as much evidence (IRC logs, URL of pictures he removed from the HTML of his profile but did not actually delete them from the image host, and his IP / hostmask) and he reported the guy to New York's crime tip line.

As they say, the wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind fine, and as the weeks rolled into months, we wondered if the cops had forgotten about it or something, but then today he got an e-mail (the cops periodically e-mailed back and once called him) saying that they had executed a search warrant at the address provided and had recovered machineguns, sawed-off shotguns (the one he had shown us was clearly visible in the police evidence photos that the news article I read) and pistols. Turns out his father had used a Federal Curio and Relics collector license, which allows you to have elligible firearms shipped directly to your home, to transfer the pistols. However, to do so legally in New York with handguns, you must have a handgun permit, which neither of them had. The machineguns were built from lawfully-acquired parts kits, which are typically built by hobbyists into completely legal semi-automatic firearms (by law, the receivers must vary enough to not accept fully-automatic parts).

I am very pro-gun, I do believe it should be legal to own fully-automatic firearms and it is legal in around 40 states to do so (NY not being one of them) but I also believe that ignoring unjust laws is not a moral way to protest them. It saddens me this young man has been arrested for violating laws that should not exist, particularly the law about "collapsible stocks" that New York has, but at the same time, I cannot pity him too much, he and his father knew full well that they were breaking various State and Federal laws and he was callous enough to make this public for ANYONE that Google searched his IRC nickname (first result, actually) to find.

EDIT : technically they haven't found him or his father guilty, just charged him...but as far as cases go, they just don't get any more closed than that.

Just post what you're listening to:
Biosphere - Bose-Einstein condensation

Because I think Doomworld needs one of these. Can't recall there ever being one either. Post whatever random thought(s) you're thinking right now and wish to share.


Need to start fitting in some cardio into my workout regime. Also need to stop clicking on the 4chan bookmark in my bookmarks folder in the vain hope that it's online again, just because I need my fix of mindlessness to counterbalance the seriousness of today. Also wish I was in the pub.

Are bars ever called pubs outside of the British Isles?

Alright. Jon Heder and some guy in his 50's. Jon goes to the guy's class to get self-esteem or something and he ends up trying to steal Jon's girl. Anger Management reminded me of this. Also there was a short scene with the guy who played Zoolander.

decisions... decisions.

Here's a breakdown of the pros and cons in no particular organized fashion:

It's supposed to rain in Boston on July 4th whereas in NYC not.
NYC is slightly closer to me and I can get into the city without paying any tolls (whereas entrance into Boston is over $3 in tolls), but NYC club cover charges are ridiculous ($30 at the last club I went to there, but a drunk/doped up chick I randomly met on the street paid my cover) but certainly I can't expect to do that every time I go to a club in NYC :D I've seen the fireworks in Boston and they're very good, but again, rain is forecast (severe weather possible, too). I can't recall if I've ever been in NYC for the 4th of July, but hard to imagine you could find better fireworks elsewhere. Another major bonus to NYC is it has 24 hour subway and 4am closing time compared to Boston where the T quits at 1:30am and the bars close at 2am.

My main interest in going to either place is the night life.

I haven't been able to find any non-upscale dance clubs in NYC that play run of the mill dance/pop music, which is sort of a drawback for me because, 1. I don't want to spend $150+ in one night and 2. I prefer basic pop music remixes that get played in run of the mill night clubs with $10 covers to fancy-shmancy DJs that I've never heard of and aren't particularly impressed by their music. I cannot for the life of me find such a cub in NYC. :-/ All the night clubs are high grade DJs that play repeating techno beats that are boring to listen to and boring to dance to.

What I want to hear in a night club all night long:

decisions... decisions.

Here's a breakdown of the pros and cons in no particular organized fashion:

It's supposed to rain in Boston on July 4th whereas in NYC not.
NYC is slightly closer to me and I can get into the city without paying any tolls (whereas entrance into Boston is over $3 in tolls), but NYC club cover charges are ridiculous ($30 at the last club I went to there, but a drunk/doped up chick I randomly met on the street paid my cover) but certainly I can't expect to do that every time I go to a club in NYC :D I've seen the fireworks in Boston and they're very good, but again, rain is forecast (severe weather possible, too). I can't recall if I've ever been in NYC for the 4th of July, but hard to imagine you could find better fireworks elsewhere. Another major bonus to NYC is it has 24 hour subway and 4am closing time compared to Boston where the T quits at 1:30am and the bars close at 2am.

My main interest in going to either place is the night life.

I haven't been able to find any non-upscale dance clubs in NYC that play run of the mill dance/pop music, which is sort of a drawback for me because, 1. I don't want to spend $150+ in one night and 2. I prefer basic pop music remixes that get played in run of the mill night clubs with $10 covers to fancy-shmancy DJs that I've never heard of and aren't particularly impressed by their music. I cannot for the life of me find such a cub in NYC. :-/ All the night clubs are high grade DJs that play repeating techno beats that are boring to listen to and boring to dance to.

What I want to hear in a night club all night long:

My brother walked into the kichen this morning to announce his first ever lucid dream. He didn't go into much detail about the content, but it did get me wondering whether or not this sort of dreaming is even desirable. It's fast becoming a topic that I find very, very interesting...

Why would I want to control what's happening in a dream? If the purpose is to find yourself in an environment in which you are suddenly capable of manipulating anything and everything around you, how different is that to simply imagining it as you're awake? Is it because you don't have to constantly apply your mind to the task of creating this world, and merely point at where to go? Or is it simply because, now that you're not just stuck doing nothing for 6 to 8 hours, you might as well make the most of the occasion? It seems much more "profitable" to play out the experience in complete ignorance, reacting genuinely to every event as though it were actually happening.

Much of my dilemma stems from the fact that there are barely any events that occur within my dreams that might be considered normal. My most recent outing to the land of Nod, for instance, saw me delivering bowls of milky wine to a residency overgrown with vines in which a former classmate was crying pitifully into a waterbed. After fixing a pair of tricycles together he turned into David Frost, and we subsequently transported ourselves to an urban intersection filled with sliding vending machines, polite hoodies, and parliamentary offices. When a gloomy day breaks over the horizon, the intersection we are in is revealed to be the divide between a glass and concrete structure of architectural wonder, situated plainly in the midst of Greenland. And then I eat some pastry.
...Now, I think I have a rather decent imagination, but I recognise that, when I'm awake, the sorts of scenarios and environments that I usually think up of are too contrived and represented to best the ones that occur overnight. If I were granted control over what was happening, the whole experience would dumb down rather quickly, and I'd end up imagining myself in places much less interesting than the false hub of Greenland architecture, Centauri Mons, a door factory in Windsor, or the first class section of an 18th century train travelling through a salt flat in a giant cargo hold. The unstable nature of everything would be lost. No chaos!

This is all granted that I'm not already dreaming lucidly in any case, because I'm completely unsure as to whether or not I'm

1. Aware and in control,
2. Aware and simply more entertained by the idea of letting the dream play out, or
3. Completely oblivious.

Just post what you're listening to:
Biosphere - Bose-Einstein condensation