Sonic Drive By

So, not much has been going on lately, the usual waste time by sitting around, of course, but nothing new. I've downloaded some mods to some of my games and found fun in that, but honestly, nothing exciting has happened lately.
To give you an example of just how boring my life in college is, I offer you an amusing anecdote:
Me and my two brothers from a different mother went looking for furniture yesterday (yes, barrels of monkeys. I told you.) And after our weekly trip to Wal-Mart, we stopped by our local Sonic Drive In for some tasty treats. As we pull into our parking spot, we notice that the car hops are actually on skates at this location and we get excited at the nostalgia that ensues.
After ordering our meals, we were surprised to see how quickly our food was on its way. We recognized our delectables on a tray carried by a car hop who seemed uneazy to say the least on skates. Coming off of the curb toward our vehicle, she annouces that she in fact isn't comfortable on skates which seemed to set off the Rube Goldberg of events where she then proceeded to tumble with our tray of treats, my friend tries to grab her from his safely buckled position in the car, she gets turned around and rolls backwards toward the street before stopping and tossing our Route 44 Coke into the air and onto the ground. She then professed her embarrassment and confessed her hatred for skates and her disdain as to why the management makes them wear skates.
This leads me to wonder why they did, as well, but as we started looking around, it didn't seem like a requirement. Not all of the car waitresses were on wheels. She, wasn't alone, though. A friend from high school who also worked there as a car hop was on skates, however, her moves were much more graceful than Ashley's (our car hop). Was she just the target of a Sonic initiation? a hazing? a joke? Who knows. Perhaps the management of our local Sonic has a better sense of humor than I gave them credit for. Perhaps the "security cameras" they installed were actually for capturing the tumbles of their employees and then secretly sending them in (in medley form, of course) to some practical joking, hidden camera prank show. The skates, although providing a heavy nostalgic feeling of comfort can produce the negative effect when burgers and tots go flying through the air landing all over a customer's car. Can someone set me straight on the conspiracy behind this?

LCDStudio

I have a Logitech G15 gaming keyboard (very cool). Anyways, I've been looking for some neat things to display on the built-in LCD screen and just the other day, I found exactly what I needed. There is a program called "LCDStudio" that allows you to create your own designs for several different LCDs, luckily, it also included my keyboard. I got to work on creating what I thought was the best I design for my computer. It includes lots of information and is very intuitive.

I have the zip file hosted for DOWNLOAD. at my FREE file hosting website FileFront. All the details are in the full resolution image and inside the archive.

Think you're cold? Think about them.

It's too cold for words HERE. My beautiful girlfriend sent me this link earlier.

The SuperBowl XL Commercials

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Cheap Books? Yes, guaranteed.

Yes, my fellow friends, you read right. Everyone knows that easily the biggest cost of college besides tuition is the cost of books. These overpriced and often POS stacks of paper bounded for our enjoyment are nothing less than a nightmare for the average income'd college pupil. Most of these books that we are forced to buy are only sellable for little or nothing of the resale... The cost of the spit that you wish you could wipe in the Nazi bookstore's (and manufacturer's) face. Even worse, some of these two ton headaches are un-sellable. I mean, who would want the flawed first edition paperback from a class that just tried the book "as an experiment". I'd appreciate it if you didn't "experiment" with my money. What I have for you, here, though, is an excellent compilation of campus-external book resources. I've saved approximately 800$ in two semesters with no repercussions. Sure, I may have to deal with a used book, but who hasn't? Most come in near new condition and I've paid more for shipping than for the book itself. The shipping was only 3.49$.

The main way I am able to save all of this money is through a taboo concept in Bookstores on campuses all over... "Old-Edition". Please don't draw and quarter me, it's not really that evil. That's just what they want you to believe. (If that is still too revolutionary for you, and you want to stick with your current edition books, read on, still, I've got something for you.) Old-Editions can come at drastic savings, some under a dollar, and I'm not talking about the edition from 1970, I'm talking about the previous editions. Most of them look exactly the same, save the cover which may not fit the eye aesthetics of the current year. They sure do fit the wallet-aesthetics of my budget, though. I'd rather spend my hard earned cash on video games and eating dinner out. Wouldn't you?
These Previous Editions may not be available at your favorite local bookstore, but they are in abundance all over the Internet at savings of up to 99% I've seen. Although, sometimes, if you're lucky, you can find the current edition of your required textbook at a savings of up to and not limited to 80% off the bookstore price. I can pretty much guarantee you if you buy a book online, you will save money. Here is the steps that you should go through in order to save the optimal amount of money for your new semester:

1. Register for classes. This step is obvious, but it gives us a starting reference point.
2. Once you have solidified your schedule, go to the bookstore. No, you won't be buying anything, and just to keep your financial wellbeing intact, leave the wallet at home, but bring a pen and paper.
   
3. You may wander the aisles looking for your classes and the new semester's required books. You can ask the bookstore employees to assist you via their computers.
• If your classes' book requirements are not in yet, inquire as to when they will be and repeat step 3 on that date.
4. Once you have located your books on the shelves, take out your handy dandy notebook and pen and write down the following information for all of the books:
• "Name of Book": ISBN#0-536-63241-3, $69.99
5. Grin and leave the bookstore and head back home. If you're a radical, mention to the employees or yell aloud that you're going to save a ton of money elsewhere. That'll make you feel better.
6. We're going to use the name of the book to search for other editions, the ISBN to search for the exact book and the price to comparison shop and compute savings.
   
7. Fire up your favorite computing device and connect to the World Wide Web. My favorite and first choice when saving money is to click over to Amazon.
8. In the search box, enter only the ISBN# without the "-" dashes. Up will come the exact match of your book. This price may be staggering. Don't fear. If it is you have a few options:
1. Using the example ISBN from above, we can see a good looking line:
• 16 used & new available from $0.75
• This looks good to me, I can deal with used. Especially when the bookstore is charging more that 70 times that. We also see that the new books are only 59.65$ with free shipping, wow, we've already got potential.
  
2. Are used books just as expensive? Time to look at the previous edition. Let's use the ISBN# 0321145720. Follow along at Amazon if you like.
• Under the line boasting the used book price, there is a box containing some more data:
  
  Whoa, by switching to the previous edition, we can save exponentially!
• Using this box may get a little confusing, so the way I like to search for previous editions is just by entering the book title in the search box and remove any references to the edition.
  
3. You may also want to choose to repeat the above steps with another online book seller such as Half.
4. Don't forget about international editions. They're exactly the same as their American counterparts, except they only come in paperback and for some reason, the pages feel different.
   
5. Last and certainly not least, try eBay. You may laugh, but I purchased a Spanish book on there for 12$ (hardback, yes). It came with the workbook, manuals, CDs, etc. The best part was, at the end of the semester, I sold it to the bookstore and made 37$. Wow.
9. Make sure you allot plenty of time for your book to arrive for the new semester, even though, it's normally ok for you not to have the book for the first few days of class. Just don't procrastinate, or it'll cost you. In this case, it actually does.

Don't be forced to buy your books from the hellish-ly over priced bookstore ever again. Just follow these few simple steps and you'll be on your way to financing that new Xbox 360, big screen TV, car, or other large item you could buy with these savings.

I posted this blog for the world to learn on ehow.com. Here it is.

Babies' Momma Barbie

As you can all see, this humorous photo came from Xuqa. Xuqa is a college networking website focusing its goals on spreading the half-naked pictures of college sluts across america. Haha, ok, so that isn't its main goal, but there sure are a lot of sorostitutes on there. It's a good time waster when you're supposed to be working on homework, just like Facebook. Sometimes (like today), though, you can find some really funny pictures, conversations, and the like. If you are in college and like to waste time, head over there and sign up. ... Oo and there is always that humourous website for college kids.

I'm not "emo", trust me.

So, it really gets me... The whole "emo" thing. Not people calling me that, necessarily, just the craze in general. I mean what is it with people? By trying to suffice their need to stand out, they find that they need to fit in? That sentence, I realize, makes just about as much sense as this "emo" ludicrous does. I hate even calling it that. It shows that I acknowledge their existence, when, in fact, I don't want to. I'm sure their are plenty of cool people out there who are into the whole thing, but call it what it is which is still to nice: "Emotional". I guess emo just sounded cooler. I dunno. I'm not a fad designer, but this is one fad, that I hope will come to an end shortly.

One website that lyrically describes how I feel about this whole thing is here:
The Emo Song.

I don't and can't fathom the need to wear girl jeans, paint my nails black, or have chains dangling from my dress-like-pants to the ground. I thought this whole thing started with shoving expensive clothes in the face of the "preppie" crowd, when it seems that now, places like Hot-Topic can carry items such as bondage-style abdomen covers and capes that bear price tags right up there with the most expensive mall clothing items. You see these people all over campus, and it really makes me wonder "When are these people going to grow up?" Are they going to act like this their entire lives? I mean, I can understand it in high school, trying to make the most out of the awkward years, but these people need to step into the adult world and quit acting like immature children looking for attention. "Emo-kid, why you so sad?"

"I'm an Emo-Kid, non-conforming as can be.
You'd be non-conforming too, if you look just like me."
-The Emo Song.

How computer science makes me feel inside

If you, the reader, are out there thinking about what major to go into, let me help narrow your decision. If once, the thought crossed your mind, "I think I might want to be a computer science major. Computers are cool and I like them, so that would be cool." let me help with your thinking process. You are insane. Computer science is nothing that should be taken lightly and is indeed a very serious major. Most of my days are filled with coding, reading, or just gouging my eyes out with a rusty spoon. Here is a sample of how it makes me feel:

Fredcat.net

To all you cat fanatics out there, I stumbled upon a website that should excite all of you. I was looking for some information when I just happened to find a site, devoted to being the diary of a cat. Fred the cat to be more specific. It was that picture that you see to the right was what drew me in. I can't say that I stayed there any longer than it took to grab that photo, but I had to share it.

Office Space From Justice League

This Place Sucks
So, a friend of mine recently showed me a video that I thought was hilarious. It's from our friends over at ifilm.com and is pretty smurfing funny. Check it out:
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2665580

Nintendo: Oldschool Revolution
Here is another for all of you oldschool Nintendo fans.
It's right up your alley.
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2686716