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.

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?

PostSecret.com

Since it’s start the internet has been evolving rapidly at an uncontrollable rate. Just about anyone could publish a website these days and just about anyone could view them. Im not surprised of some of the things I come across on a regular. Who knew someday we’d live in a world where you could hire someone online, to come and spit on you for a reasonable price? No really. Google it.

A few months ago a friend put me on to a very different but ‘interesting’ website. PostSecret.com. Not sure of the purpose, I quickly skimmed through the website trying to make sense of it. For the first 4 minutes it appeared to be something an obsessive-crazed journalist put together in his basement. The site was full of secrets. Secrets about sex, about lies about love ones. Secrets about rape, murder, then love and happiness. Then, after about 5 minutes in I realized these weren’t the secrets of one man. They were secrets of random everyday people? I thought to myself. What a great idea.

People send in home-made post cards to an address provided on PostSecret.com and everyday people send in their deepest secrets. Some secrets are touching, others ore sad, but most are compelling. Every Sunday, about 20 new secrets are posted for the world to read.

They’ve even published 3 books full of secrets. I myself purchased one and I have to say, its an interesting read. They are available on Amazon.com.

Caution: Some of the content on PostSecret.com are of graphic nature. I strongly suggest you do not visit the website if you are uncomfortable with it.

Reign Over Me

You know those annoying people in the theatre? The ones who always cry? Ughh! I know right? Don’t you hate that? I’d hate them too, if I wasn’t one of them. I admit I tear up during sad films. Maybe not as much as the annoying, over exaggerated professional crier who always happens to sit in the seat directly behind you. But sure, I’m a weeper (or ’sissy’ if you will). Well, if you and I have that weeping-willo characteristic in-common and you enjoy funny but touching films. I suggest you peep ‘Reign Over Me’.

Funnyman Adam Sandler plays Charlie Fineman, a dentist and family man whose wife and children die when their plane hits the World Trade Center. Fineman has a difficult time coping with his lose. Then, runs into his old-college roommate who attempts to help Fineman reclaim his life. With a few twist and turns the movie swiftly swings your mood back and forth from happiness, to sadness to laughter to anger. Its a good watch.

Of course if your reading this and your currently living in Bermuda, I’d wait a while before I pull out the microwave popcorn and an extra box of Kleenex. Seems this DVD isn’t available for purchase just yet here. Don’t ask how I got to see it ( cough, cough ).

Milano’s and Coffee anyone?

Snacks, snacks, snacks! We just love ‘em. Snacking is one of my favorite things to do. We all have our favorites.

Cookies, muffins, candies, brownies, popcorn, granola bars; I love them all. When I was 16 I couldn’t get enough of those little European chocolate biscuts. ‘Penguins’ I think their called. My Aunt would bring them home and I’d wait till the perfect wee hour to devour at least 2 per-night. Mmmm, such a guilty pleasure. When I was 18, I started spending an unhealthy amount of time in front of the computer (what’s changed?). I’d bring home the large size box of those McVities Digestive Cookies, crush them up and mixed them with vanilla ice-cream. It made my belly sore every-time. But they were the perfect computing snack.

Everyday on my commute to work, I stop by Arnold’s Grocery and purchase 2 bags of Milano Cookies for $3.03. I know! What a waist huh? But their so worth it. Especially next to a vanilla mocha.

Twisting your fingers

When I first told my friends I was interested in tackling the guitar everyone laughed and sort of shrugged their shoulders. They weren’t surprised when I made the random outburst during the drive to the movies that night. And they sure as hell weren’t as excited to hear it as I was to announce it. One of them told me I’d never get it down.

Man, its crazy. You gotta… sorta… like… twist your fingers in these weird ways and they be all jacking your finger-tips up and stuff

They were right! But the more you learn the easier it becomes, the prettier it sounds and the less it hurts. Isn’t that true with most new things you do in life? If you wanna build muscle, you gotta lift weight, sometimes it hurts, most times its hard, but it pays off in the long run. Same applies with public speaking, learning to read and cook. Well, maybe not so much cooking. I still burn toast and popcorn (the popcorn button on my microwave always burns it). Right Shadelle?

If you love the way your friend’s guitar sounds, want to learn, but figure its too much of a challenge; take it! The challenge I mean, not your friend’s guitar. Visit www.justinguitar.com and try a few free lessons. Don’t give up guys. Its easier than it seems. Now get to twisting those fingers.