My girlfriend’s a genius:

I had this great idea. Remember that crappy, sensationalist ad during the Super Bowl, the one where the kids are talking about their drug habits/helping terrorists? How about an ad about how one’s OIL habit helps terrorists? Instead of “It’s my body” “I’m just having a good time” “I helped kill a judge and three police officers” it becomes “I like the size of SUV’s” “If I don’t carpool or use mass transit, that’s my decision” “I help keep Suddam in power”. What do you think?

When I asked Jenn permission to post this, here’s what she said back (this is important):

Well, if you’re going to post it, give credit where credit is due. And tell your fan-base that they can make the “commercial” if they’d like, but we’d like to be somewhat involved with the scriptwriting, and that we’d like to be mentioned in any “credits”.

Now, I don’t know what’s more endearing about this. That she’s willing to share the credit or that she thinks I have a fan base.

From Time Magazine:

3800 number of calories produced every day by the food industry for each person in the U.S.

2500 number of calories neede devery day by the average male.

35% percentage of adult Americans who are overweight.

I’ve been in a web designing mood the past couple weeks, redesigning Marvel Revolution, making a webpage for my Fanfic Survivor tribe and now I’m getting the urge to make blog templates!

Here’s the first one, I just call it test journal one. Like every other site I’ve designed in the past couple weeks it starts using the JSKOnline frames format to set a definite size of the window. This template also takes the layout of JSKOnline and tweaks it a bit, going even more minimalistic and changing the transition format from the fade to scroll to a fade in/fade out (one of the options of the same script). If anyone likes this design enough to want it, let me know, I’ll send you all the necessary files in a neat little zip.

I’m probably going to work on more templates as I think about them and hopefully they’ll be more original than this and not just a take off of my earlier designs, but we’ll see.

Woah, the President just drove by my work…

Find Your Birth Playmate not for the youngins

Observations From a Weblogger When I write, I think that I’m writing to peers and to friends who are regular readers, as well as to people who are looking to learn something from a link they’ve followed provided by someone else whom they trust.

Google Loves Blogs How Weblogs Influence A Billion Google Searches A Week

oof I lost my job today. My direct boss and the human resources representative pulled me into one of three relatively tiny conference rooms and informed me that The Company no longer had any use for me. Essentially, they explained, they didn’t like what I had expressed on my website. I got fired because of dooce.com.

look ma, a whore!

File-swapping network locks out users StreamCast Networks’ Morpheus–a file-swapping service that many have said would be impossible for courts to shut down–shut out most of its users Tuesday, citing “technical problems.” Guess it’s not impossible afterall…

Car Wash “Penis” was an “Udder” Thing Instead A lingering mystery involving what appeared to be a severed human penis found in a Nebraska car wash has been solved, police said on Wednesday, with tests showing the organ was a cow’s teat.

Coffin in Living Room Led to Florida Incest Arrest Acting on a tip that a Florida family was keeping a child’s casket in their living room, police discovered a 53-year-old man living on an isolated farm with his sister as a couple and their 13 children and grandchildren, authorities said on Wednesday.

FBI Busts Teen Sex Ring The News2Houston Investigators reported Wednesday night in an exclusive story that the FBI (news - web sites) has busted a teenage sex ring wide open.

Current Time Today, the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the minute hand of the ?Doomsday Clock,? the symbol of nuclear danger, from nine to seven minutes to midnight, the same setting at which the clock debuted 55 years ago. Since the end of the Cold War in 1991, this is the third time the hand has moved forward.

Bill O’Rilley vs. Michael Moore

Ambridge man hospitalized in apparent suicide attempt An Ambridge man is recovering in Pittsburgh’s UPMC Presbyterian hospital after trying to cut off his genitals in an apparent suicide attempt.

Okay, so I got a little news happy….

Today on Fanfic Survivor The Tribes are challenged to design webpages highlighting their group. Who will win? Tribe 2 of course…

Check out the Fanfic Survivor board for the sites around 6 pm EST tonight!

Fight This Generation

Stay tuned for the upcoming adventures of car hunting!!!!

One week until J-Day! I could use a domain name or my own computer or just a basketball hoop if you all are still looking for ideas….

I SAID 12 ITEMS OR LESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I redesigned Marvel Revolution over the past couple weeks. I had designed the original back in August or so in about half an hour and it was all white background and plain as anything. Colors and stuff were added by Tony, the EiC of it. So, I offered to redesign the site and did, with this being the result. It’s the same rough frame layout as JSKOnline only because that layout allows optimal control over placement by limited the size viewable (if that makes sense). So, I redid the site. It’s not done, but you can see where I’m heading with it.

Yea, Friday Five!!!

1. Hey, baby, what’s your sign? Do you think it fits you pretty well? Pisces and I guess so, I’ll have to look into what it means again, I forget.

2. What’s the worst birthday gift you’ve ever received? The flu, got it a day before my 21st birthday and got over it three days later, missed a big party everyone was throwing for me and everything (at least they made up for it a week later).

3. What’s the best birthday gift you’ve ever received? Not sure, if I get something it generally rules. I’m not picky.

4. What’s the best way you’ve celebrated your birthday thus far? For my 18th birthday a couple of my friends threw me a surprize party which was neat becuase I’d never had one before and hadn’t really done anything for my birthday for years. Well, that’s tied with the drinkfest “bar crawl” we did a week after my 21st birthday.

5. What are your plans for this weekend? Help a friend move and then veg in preperation to party NEXT weekend when it’s my birthday!

Hot diggidy dazamn! Sports Illustrated Swinsuit 2002

Lose 20 Lbs. of Dignity And Keep It Off, or: How to Get Over A Break-Up People, I’m not gonna lie to you. I just got dumped. Like, big time. In one fell phone call, I lost my best friend, my confidante, and my future. All I have left is my pride. Not for long, however. Read on.

Claim: Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. Status: True.

Claim: Gel candles can explode, posing a greater-than-usual fire and injury hazard. Status: True.

Blogging: Tune Out and Switch On Yesterday when reading the ‘blah, blah, blah and blog’ Wired article, something Evan said struck me right between the eyes; “[...] If you write everyday, your writing improves, your thinking improves.”

Right on! The magic of blogging revealed at last.

Its brain-training.

Microtel SYSMAR116 with Intel Celeron Processor 1.0GHz - $399.00

Intel Celeron processor 1.0GHz

100MHz frontside Bus

128MB SDRAM Memory

40GB Ultra DMA Hard Drive

CD-ROM Drive

56K Modem

MONITOR - NOT INCLUDED

OPERATING SYSTEM - NOT INCLUDED

Oh, so THAT’S what the plan was… Okay, folks, since it was proposed I’ve been saying the Campaign Finance legislation in Congress was nothing but a waste of our time as it never really did anything. Democrats challenged Republicans to support is and it really was something they couldn’t vote against, the American people had been duped into believing this was real reform. Then, right when it’s passed, the Democrats, the chief supporters of the bill, immedeately make plans to circumvent campaign reform. GREAT!

Reform legislation sponsored by Reps. Chris Shays (R-Conn.) and Marty Meehan (D-Mass.) that passed the House last week bans soft money but allows federal lawmakers to raise funds in $20,000 increments for outside organizations as long as those groups are ?nonpartisan.? The loose restrictions would allow party leaders to direct hundreds of thousands of dollars for such groups.

“Nonpartisan” includes the Christian Coalition, NAACP, NRA, NOW, Teamsters, any organization other than the national party or it’s direct branches, really. So, what did this “reform” do?

Nothing.

Here’s some reform for ya.

If you can’t vote, you can’t donate.

How hard is that? Any individual can donate (of course there’d be a limit so Bill Gates couldn’t buy the election) but no businesses, no organizations, no lobbys, only individuals. The Constitution guarantees rights for INDIVIDUALS, not businesses. And, besides, businesses and lobbies are made of up PEOPLE, individuals with minds of their own and people who can make their own decisions and say what they want to say. Let THEM donate on behalf of the NRA, the NAACP, Enron, whatever. Let the individual make the decision.

No more businesses dictating legislation, no more unions stating what they want and is best for them and only them, no more lobbys working for only themselves and screw everyone else, every individual will have as much access as anyone else.

Once you get the businesses and special interests out of politics you finally return it to the people where it rightly belongs.

PayPal sued over frozen funds Less than a week after its blockbuster debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange, online payment firm PayPal has been hit with a class-action suit charging it with improperly administering users accounts and poor customer service.

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18-Year-Old Miraculously Finds Soulmate In Home Town In a miracle that defies statistical probability, Corey Muntner, 18, reported Monday that he found his soulmate, Tammy Gaska, right in his very own hometown of Peshtigo.

A brief history of J’s Notes I don’t know why, but I was suddenly struck with the urge to contemplate and write about J’s Notes, what it started as and what it’s become.

A few of you were there right when I started it as a joke. It was a complete ego page, “look at my greatness” and a place to make fun of Ian Asthmeir’s mom. Somewhere along the line I started to take it seriously. Not that it took a long time to reach that point, I think it was about two days after I started the page that I decided to keep it around and use it for something. I was going to have a journal, something to post daily thoughts, quips, announcements about my writings, stuff like that, all the things that I ended up getting back into creating JSKOnline for, but that came later.

Then I posted a bunch of links. I don’t know why, it was on a whim and humorous, but it was the start of what J’s Notes quickly became, a spot for a bunch of meaningless links. The site was split between me and links I found and it very nearly became just about the links. J’s Notes was kept from becoming just another site in the long list of random links sites because I was a slacker and didn’t put a whole lot of effort into the links after a while, allowing them to die down and making myself post more things about me just to give the site content. Not that the links are gone (as you can see) but just that there aren’t as many and they aren’t the mainstay of the site anymore (thought it’s still probably one of the big reasons people still visit it). And then, recently, the ammount of links was drasticly cut some more by my lack of internet at work, thus making J’s Notes more personal than ever.

Between point A and B I created JSKOnline and J’s Journal, JSKOnline being my straight forward ego site where everything about me would be posted and J’s Journal an attempt at a journal seperate from J’s Notes and free of the links. But this was before the net cut off at work and once that happened, the purpose of J’s Journal kinda died out as I was using my life to provide content on J’s Notes. And, really, why would I need two blogs that are going to tell you the same thing, or, if not the same thing, only half of the story each?

So, we’re up to J’s Notes now. I recently redesigned it and am second guessing myself, but it’ll stay this way for at least the near future. The content is a mix of personal to links to stuff I find interesting but it’s all personal in some manner. Either it’s me or something I like enought to share with you all.

Okay, end of that rant, off to something different…