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The British are widely regarded for having bad teeth. Why is it then that some annoying British chick is trying to sell me Orbit gum?

Cinnamon flavored toothpaste is probably the worst idea ever. That’s the last time I ever let Emeril tell me about oral hygiene.

Dear random homeless guy from yesterday:

I have no problem with you asking me for money, but please don’t expect me to give you any when you’re eating an ice cream cone. I refuse to believe that the last guy you asked for money didn’t have any cash, but did have an ice cream cone to give to you. You could have at least eaten it first, or hidden it, or given it to that hooker chick that you were hanging around with.

As I spend about an hour counting rugs at Shopko today, I think I figured out how area rugs were invented:

“Wow, that carpet would look great in my living room!”

“Yeah lets get it”

*hours later*

“So this carpet is great, but I don’t want to cut it to shape the room or glue it down”

“Meh, just cut into a rectangle and leave it”

Donnie Darko would be even more awesome if it featured the creepy Burger King king as Frank, and Mayor McCheese as Donnie.

Got rid of the ads, after about a month I hadn’t made any money. Though I’ll gladly accept your donations.

You might remember my post a few months ago about how I was finally ditching windows and switching to Linux. Unfortunately, that lasted about a week. Its not that I didn’t like it or things didn’t work, but mostly because I was too lazy to learn how to use everything. I slowly started going back to windows untill I decided to free up some hard drive space and get rid of it completly. I still wanted to learn Linux, but I couldn’t bare to let Windows go because most games are Windows only.

This week, the new version of Ubuntu Linux came out, and after hearing all the wonderful stuff that it’s supposed to have, I decided to try it out. Much like the previous version, Ubuntu is easy to install, has great hardware detection, and is suprisingly easy to use. After a bit of prying, I found that most many Windows-only games are running under Linux using WINE (a Windows emulator)

So I finally did it. I backed up all my important stuff, waved goodbye, and got rid of Windows. The best part? No more virus scans or spyware removal. As for programs, it ships with just about everything you’ll need, including music and video players, office software, web brower, IM client, and tons of other stuff. Not to mention, if it doesn’t include something out of the box, almost all software is available for free!
Ubuntu is available as a combination Live CD/Installer. This means you can run the entire OS off of a CD without touching anything on your computer, and then install it if you like it. You can download your copy here. I’m also ordering some CDs, so if you don’t want to download anything or have a slow connection, let me know and I’ll hook you up.

footnote: I managed to get everything backed up except for my IM chat logs. If any of you log your chats, and could send me a copy of ours, I would be ever so gratefull.

Decided to tryout Google Adsense. Nothing horribly intrusive, just a few text ads in the sidebar. If I can actually make a few bucks I’ll probably keep em to help pay for my massive $8 hosting bill, if not I’ll get rid of em. What do you guys think?

You are in a small bedroom filled with empty Mountain Dew cans and dirty clothes. In front of you sits a laptop computer.

> Write Paper

You spend several hours surfing the internet

> Write Paper

You briefly consider writing your paper, then spend several hours surfing the internet.

> Check Time

It is 1 AM, you have a term paper worth a hefty percentage of your grade due later today

> Write Paper

You write your paper and quickly fall asleep

> Study for finals

You spend several hours surfing the internet

> Take finals

Despite barely studying, you do well and don’t fail any classes. Also, you need a job.

> Look for job

You briefly consider looking for a job

> I really need a job!!

You spend several hours on the internet

> Stay up late

It is 4 AM, you are likely to be eaten by a Grue

> Surf internet

The internet is down

> Fix internet

You are unable to fix the internet

> Find some way to occupy time

You create an animated GIF based on a stupid internet meme