Linkstew

Way back in the day, when I first hopped on the Internet, I signed up with lightspeed.net, a local ISP. I've had a lightspeed.net email address for as long as I've been on the internet... Last year, I believe, lightspeed was bought out by OneMain, a larger ISP -- I forget their coverage, but it was larger than lightspeed. The funny thing to me about this is that at one point lightspeed was actually an expanding company. But now, OneMain has been bought by Earthlink. I don't know why I even linked to lightspeed and onemain, because lightspeed already redirects to earthlink, and I'm sure onemain will redirect to earthlink soon. It strikes me as strange that Bakersfield now has no local ISP. Bamf! Gone!

At least bsii@lightspeed.net is still working. Occasionally an important message still drifts across that account -- I wonder how much longer it'll last? I wonder how much longer there'll be any little guys around? Will it some day just be reduced to Earthlink, MSN, AOL, and the cable and dsl providers? Sad questions, but it looks like that's how things are going these days.

I woke up this morning with the damndest desire for juice. My mouth seemed to be screaming "Must... Have... Juice!" (Admittedly, my mouth is what normally produces words, but in this case, it just felt like my mouth was being demanding.)

So I walked to the kitchen, noticed how nice the freshly mopped floor felt on my bare feet, grabbed some frozen juice from the freezer, and grabbed my pitchers full of water from the fridge. And that's when my eyes landed on a carton of milk.

Now, normally I know about when my milk is going to expire, or at least when I bought it, but I was at a complete loss as to the origin of this carton. I knew I'd bought it, because my roommates buy full gallons instead of the wimpy half gallon that was sitting innocently on the shelf. I poked at it a couple of times before pulling it out and seeing that it was dated March 1.

Damn, maybe that's why my fridge smelled funny.

Oh, and for the record, the juice only made my mouth feel all gummy, so I think my mouth was lying to me.

And if you're confused, let me just point out that Cammy is a character from the video game Street Fighter II who Keith is... fond of.

The GIA is reporting that Konami is offering gamers a chance to have their name featured in the game, Metal Gear Solid 2. Wow! I could have a character named after me get killed by Snake? Where do I sign up?? Oh, here's the form to sign up. Silly me.

After Ever After, I headed out to watch Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. After a brief false start, because I went to the wrong theater (the theater where I saw the festival LAST year), I made it to the correct theater and entered.

I think it says something when one of the most amusing parts of the evening was before the show started when they unleashed a lot of large balloons on an unsuspecting audience. The balloons were fun. A lot of the mindless violence/grossness that followed wasn't.

Sick and Twisted should have some funny associated with it. It's not like I wasn't expecting sick and/or twisted... I guess I was just expecting more. Hmm... High points were Spike shooting some pokemon (as opposed to the teletubbies he blasted last year), Rejected by Bitter Films, and umm... Did I already mention the balloons? In short, it's probably not worth $8... Oh well. So it went.

YourCoffin.com is apparently selling, well, coffins. The front page is especially amusing, with the animated gif of what you can use your coffin for. Let's see... Stereo Cabinent, Wine Rack, Girls in Bikinis... Uh, yeah, anyway.

So there I was, walking to class, minding my own business, when I noticed a box out of the corner of my eye labelled, innocently enough, "Facial Tissue." No big deal, right? However, for about half a second, I interpretted that as not kleenex, but the other kind of facial tissue. Ew.

So have you ever noticed how your urine takes on a funny odor after you've been taking penicillin for awhile, or if you've eaten asparagus, and so on? Well, that's all fine and dandy, since those aren't that unusual... But this morning I had some lucky charms for breakfast, and, well, let's just say that when I went to the bathroom, it had a distinct odor...

Mindi, the girl down the hall who is also from Bakersfield, related this amusing story to me. Apparently, a guy called Love Line and explained that he and his cousin had slept with and impregnated his sister. Oh, by the way, he's from Oildale, which, for those of you not in the know, is basically a suburb (HA!) of Bakersfield.

So, come the next commercial break, the DJ on duty at KRAB comes on the line and says "Never, EVER, tell anyone where you're from if you're from anywhere NEAR Bakersfield. You're just going to ruin our name even more."

Just after I finished going to the bathroom, after having noticed the Lucky Charms odor from my urine, I saw a poster on the wall advertising a dance. The slogan on the poster was "Get Lucky", and featured a certain leprechaun I could name...

While out and about, I stopped at a 7-11, and needed some cash, so used the ATM inside... And it printed the receipt for me, and then I noticed something... the receipt, the atm... It was all compaq branded. This scares me quite a lot. I don't want to trust my money to compaq, no way, no how.

Jason, a friend I know through Pi, apparently got married a couple of weeks ago. This scares me... No one I graduated high school with should be getting married yet! Now, before you take the above heading the wrong way, no, it's not Jason who is Pregnant... Nor, thankfully, his newlywed wife.

While at the mall the other day, Pi and I ran into another girl we graduated with, and it was she who was pregnant. And this also, weirded me out. We're too young for this! How many times do I have to tell you, "Knock it off all you want, but don't Knock her up!"