Tumblr.com

Man, I’ve heard so much about this website that I just had to try it out for myself. All of my favorite internet celebrities use it to micro-blog about what their up to. If you’ve ever wanted a blog but weren’t sure where to get started, here is a great warm up site to help you out.

Tumblr.com makes it easy to set up a blog of your very own. There are literally 3 steps to get started and once its up, its up. It cost absolutely nothing to get started and its very simple to navigate. Once registered they give you a “name.tumblr.com” URL, but they also give you the option to set up a personal URL, if you know what your doing of course.

The site is great. Though it differs so much from what I use on here which is Wordpress, it does it’s job for what its for, which is to provide a simple and effective tool to get whatever randomness that may be on your mind out there. Video, Audio, Text, Images, Links, you name it. You could do it.

Check it out at TUMBLR.com or check out mine which probably wont be updated as much until a few weeks from now - ImSoCool.Tumblr.com.

Lets talk Adium

Lets talk a bit about instant messaging. Its come a long way, wouldn’t you agree? If your between the ages of 15 and 25, chances are your logged into your favorite messenger client pretty much through your whole day. Even right now as your reading!

I think its safe to say the majority of my friends use MSN Live Messenger for the Windows Platform. Great Instant Messenger by the way. Oh, and then you’ve got those cool plugins that you could install that include all those cool viruses that you don’t even know you have yet. I divorced that particular client when I switched over to the Mac.

Many new Mac switchers find a hard time finding ‘MSN Messenger for Mac‘ (which is actually made by Microsoft, not Apple) or something similar that incorporates all the same and/or better features than it’s Windows cousin. The problem is, Microsoft has never been really good at implementing their IM client on the Macintosh from the jump so people are forced to search for alternatives instead.

Thats where Adium comes in! Adium is an open source Instant Messenger application for a number of various chat protocols. What the heck does that mean? Well, basically it takes your MSN, Yahoo, iChat, Google Chat, AOL , ICQ and others and allows you to talk to all of your buddies on one combined list. Totally eliminating the need to open 4 or 5 different applications at one time. The great thing about it is its 100% customizable. So you could dress it however you like.

If your on a Mac, take a look at this great app here. We’ll just have to wait and see what Microsoft is cooking up as the next version to MSN for Mac.

Oh, did I mention, the icon is a little green dock! Cool huh?

CollegeHumor.com

If you’ve spent more than ten minutes around me you’d know I love to laugh. My humor is dry and for the most part sarcastic. I laugh at my own jokes even when others have difficulty understanding the punch lines, its funny because sometimes them “not understanding the punch line”… is the punch line!

I spend a unhealthy amount of time browsing collegehumor.com for worthy laughs and cheap giggles. The original college humor videos made by the actual staff members are some of the funniest short clips I’ve ever seen on the internet. It also features pictures, articles and a section called “girls“? The website was first launched in 1999 as a way for two high-school friends to keep in touch. Since then its popularity has grown, maxing over 18 million unique visitors a month.

If you love dry humor, college pranks, impersonations and random laughs take my word for it, collegehumor.com is the place to find it.

I declare war

What do you do during your bored days? Some read depressing novels. Others climb into bed and watch reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond. Me? I mark my face with war paint, jump into a pair of combat jeans and hunt my room for innocent ants. Once captured I bring them to my interrogation center (my computer desk) and burn them with my 75 cent lighter. I know they can’t answer the question’s I ask them about who sent them. But that’s the point. Because if they could, I wouldn’t get to watch them trying to wiggle free as the flame gets closer to their body each time.

I know what your thinking. You watched a story on CNN about some depressed kid who burned ants as a kid, killed and stuffed his neighbors house cats when he was a teen and murdered innocent people in his adult life. But thats not me. Honest. I told you, I only do it when Im bored.

So keep me busy!

UPDATE: After writing this post a good friend admitted to me that she once poured her nail polish on a dead bird and set it aflame! Sounds like a PostSecret.

Recurring laptop bag nightmares

In about 20 years from now I see myself sitting around an old friend’s coffee table discussing our favorite cartoons from the 90s while enjoying a glass of red wine and snacking on ritz crackers. I’d mention how ‘Rocko’s Modern Life’ was ahead of its time and the person sitting across from me would mention their suspicions that “The Ren and Stimpy” show was a conspiracy to help kids grow to be serial killers. We’d all sit back and laugh, then someone would say “Hey! Remember when Damond could walk normal? Back when he didn’t have a hunch back? Ha. Those we’re the days eh?”.

Thats my recurring nightmare and I owe it all to my bulky laptop bag. Its a messenger styled bag that hangs over one shoulder - a man purse if you will. Because I walk so darn much, it tends to really bother my right shoulder when I walk.

I was visiting (or stalking) another fellow graphic designer’s website and noticed he had blog posts about how much he loved it. It wasn’t at all like a laptop bag. It had an army print and the fabric looked so soft and comfortable. Even the strap.

Unfortunately there aren’t any stores here that I know of selling anything close. Im bummed. Guess I’ll have to wait till I travel again. I just hope by then my current bag doesn’t screw up my shoulder and cause me to be the laugh of the night someday.

The comfy bunkie

My bedroom or what I most commonly know it as, my layer, isn’t bad at all. There’s a place for my MacBook, plenty of lamps and a window thats deprived of light (I love the darkness). But why the fruity-nut-cakes is it so frigging hot sometimes? Arg.

My room is right next to the houses’ water tank and actually about 50% underground, giving it an exciting batman cave experience. But thats about it. Its pretty neutral as far as colors are concerned and the walls could need a bit of dressing up. You there! Quit snickering! I like it this way.

I moved in this room about a year ago. It was priority one on the old apartment located at the bottom of the family house. The plan was laid out on a series of colorful sticky notes months before I started to fix it up. There was no floor, closet, and at one point, no wall. After I fixed those, I added a ceiling light, bedroom door, closet doors, blinds and moved in.

Time for phase two. December is here and I think its time for a overhaul. Any ideas? Im so excited. Aren’t you?

A pleasant surprise

Yesterday was a slow start for me. I opened my eyes and kissed the morning at about 11am, zombie walked over to my computer and attempted to respond to the abundance of instant messages left by my best friend, Layla.

I do a lot less complaining about life these days. One of the reasons is I saved money by switching to Geico and the other is I’ve got an amazing friend who means the world to me. Layla dropped in by surprise yesterday while I was actually blogging. My whole day did a 360 backflip because she’s so much fun to be around. She thinks exactly like me and has a beautiful creative mind. I secretly wished she’d stay the night. It gets lonely here sometimes you know?

P.S. I’m listening to her breathe as Im writing this. It’s 11:05pm and she’s fast asleep and as cute as a baby.