J’s Notes

The understated emphasis of the greatness of Jay.

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Updated “About And More”

Now with more awesome!

269. If you’ve made your point, stop talking.

1001 Rules For My Unborn Son is my favorite blog find of the day.

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The McGangBang

Take a McDonalds double cheeseburger and put a McChicken in the middle and you’ve got yourself a McGangBang.

More Popular Than NBC12, Not Quite As Popular As Mayor Jones

RichmondWiki is neat.  I like the idea of creating an encyclopedia of Richmond and others being able to give their takes and bits of info they know as well.  I’m not sure how successful it’ll be in the long run of providing a good history of Richmond, but it’s already shaping up to be a [...]

Shirts I Want

Who Pacs The Pacmen? by James Lillis

A Simple Plan by Neil Gregory

National Pancake Day

This Tuesday, February 24th is IHOP National Pancake Day! Get yourself some free pancakges!

How Twitter Can Be Awesome

Anything in the hands of Shaq has the potential of becoming awesome. Including Twitter.
One guy got a phone call from Shaq after questioning whether or not his Twitter account THE_REAL_SHAQ was indeed real:
After the conversation, Shaq tweeted “I just talk to my good friend lord b, hes cool, im a invite him to a game [...]

Josh Freese’s Album Promotion

Josh Freese, the former drummer for NiN, has an interesting promotion up for his album.  Pay what you will, but each level has higher rewards:
$1,000 (limited edition of 10)
* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* T-shirt
* Signed cymbal, drum head and drumsticks
* Josh washes your car OR does your laundry … or you can wash his [...]

Stranger For Dinner

If a stranger invited himself to your house for dinner and offered to give $200 to the charity of your choice in payment, would you accept?  Franke James did.
The idea is brilliant and in the beautifully illustrated post James points out how this could have great applications to help non-profits.  Well worth a read on [...]

$500 Guerrilla Filmmaking Genius

For $500, Purchase Brothers made the first two episodes of a Half-Life 2 miniseries.  $500.  Who knows how much stuff they had ahead of time, but $500 for something of this quality is a hell of a good deal.

Makes me wanna go make a movie. Not that it’d be this good, but still.
UPDATE: Looking [...]

Rockin’ The MIDI

D-Pad Hero - It’s Guitar Hero for the NES and it is awesome.

LayerTennis Returns!

This Feb. 13th marks the return of LayerTennis:
Two competitors will swap a file back and forth in real-time, adding to and embellishing the work. Each artist gets fifteen minutes to complete a “volley” and then we post it to the site live. A third participant, a writer, provides play-by-play commentary on the action, as it [...]

J’s Top Ten Albums Of 2008

About a month ago I thought this list would be easy. Heck, it might only have been five albums. My musical experience in 2008 was pretty limited for the most part. It wasn’t that I didn’t find new music, it’s just that so much of it came out before 2008. But then I went scouring [...]

J’s Notes Is “Influential”

For the first time in J’s Notes long life (I think it’s the second or third longest running blog in Virginia), the site has cracked Blog Net News’s Most Influential List, ranking in at an awesome 19th place:

Probably due to my answering a slew of questions last Wednesday.  Who knew I’d be so influential?