Things I'll Buy When I'm Stinking Rich

These occur to me all the time but I can't imagine actually buying any of these things unless I could also buy a ginormous house to put them in as well.

1. Air hockey table. Because I'm too cheap to pay for it whenever I do find one but they are unbelievably awesome. Unless you smash your hands.

2. Millions of cheap things from Target. Every time I go there I see tons of useless but awesome things. Like St. Patty's Day shot glasses, or brightly colored socks, or glasses with penguins on them or $5 movies. I don't need any more of these things but I always want them.

3. An big flat open roof. Possibly with a garden? I would sleep up there in the sunshine all the time.

4. Washing machine and dryer. These are just useful.

5. A closet the size of a room. I like hanging my clothes, what can I say....

6. Model horses... Like the nice expensive ones. These can also have a room of their own in this ginormous fantasy house of mine.

7. Things from the USC bookstore. College gear is so expensive.

For Your Online Enjoyment

Some websites I enjoy. Pretty simple.

fmylife.com - self explanatory

textsfromlastnight.com - self explanatory

failblog.org - epic fails

11points.com - lists

tridelphia.net - a magic 8 ball!

howtobakeapotato.com - it is awesome that someone got this domain name and used it to explain how to bake potatoes

mylifeisaverage.com - these stories are not average

woot.com - daily deals on a wide variety of things, also shirt.woot

XKCD - hilarity

sixbillionsecrets.com - self explanatory

Baby Name Wizard - popularity of baby names from 1880 to present, great visual presentation

More from the Cheezburger network:
failbook.com - Facebook fails and cleverness
Very Demotivational - demotivational posters
Crazy Things Parents Say - self explanatory

Looking Forward to Being Roommate-less

After living with roommates for all of college, I can't wait to live alone. I'm sure there are positive things roommates have to offer (like killing scary bugs, dealing with work orders, and eating leftovers I don't want) but at the moment the benefits don't seem to outweigh the drawbacks of living with other people. So here's what I look forward to when living alone:

1. I'll finally know what everything in the fridge is and how long it's been there.

2. The Disney channel will no longer be playing 24/7 on my TV in the living room.

3. All the furniture will (hopefully) actually match. And not be cheap antiques from three different families.

4. I will be able to eat any of the food in the apartment and use any of the dishes. These dishes will also actually be clean.

5. No one will try to cram pizza boxes into the tiny trash can.

6. The wireless will be properly encrypted and have a sensible password and I will be able to reach the router when there are problems.

7. No one will have to listen to me talk to myself and I won't have to listen to anyone else talk to themselves. Also I won't have to keep my voice down when talking to other people or doing other things.

8. No one will walk into my room to talk to me when I am clearly just chillin' in my room.

Inappropriate Email Addresses

Gmail does not like them.

When signing up for a new Gmail account you can enter your desired address and check its availability. However, if you enter an "inappropriate" word in your username, it gives you this:

Sorry, we are unable to present username suggestions at this time.

I find this fascinating.

Why I Think Disney Is A Cult

I remember enjoying Disneyland and Disney movies greatly when I was a child, but recently my trips have left me a little disillusioned. I'll admit, this might be because...

1. I now have to pay for my own tickets, which sucks....
2. When you've been on 5 million roller coasters at places where the only thing the coasters have going for them is speed and how many loops they have, rides like Thunder Mountain lose their thrill.
3. I'm now old enough that I don't enjoy being banged about on roller coasters that were built ages ago.
   
4. For being the happiest place on earth, I see a lot of unhappy people at Disneyland.
   

I remember back when Disneyland was just a bunch of fun rides, back when there were fish on strings in the Yellow Submarine ride and no one had ever thought about turning Pirates of the Caribbean into a movie. It seemed like Disney was more interested in providing genuine fun - not continuously promoting other Disney products.

This shows up in more areas than just around Disneyland. The Disney classics (like Snow White, The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, etc.) have been mass marketed so much that I'm actually afraid to see any of the sequels, TV shows, or toys based on them just because they'll corrupt the childhood memories I have of when a movie was just a movie, not a ploy to steal all your money.

So here's my comparison to a cult:

What are they selling?
"Magic" - If you've ever seen Fantasmic or the fireworks show you know what I'm talking about.

What do they want from you?
It's all about money baby.

Where's the harm?
Well if you don't mind that they're corrupting children with the never-ending permutations of Disney products just begging to be bought and stealing all your money... then there is none.

I know a lot of people that are obsessed with Disneyland and will hear none of this, but every time I go and every time I see the newest version of some Disney title I used to enjoy, I cry a little bit inside. At Disneyland in particular I see a lot of people trying to buy into the "magic" and the "happiness" of it all, but when there is nearly a riot trying to get on the tram back to the parking lot, you see what's really underneath it all.

Facebook Suggestions

My thoughts exactly.

XKCD, thank you for expressing this so well.

Facebook needs to stop this ridiculousness. There is a reason I don't talk to these people. I do not need to "reconnect" with them. Piss off.

"Authentification"

THIS WORD DOES NOT EXIST.

Yes, I am yelling at all of you that say this. The correct word is authentication.

Definition:
1. A security measure designed to protect a communications system against acceptance of a fraudulent transmission or simulation by establishing the validity of a transmission, message, or originator.
2. A means of identifying individuals and verifying their eligibility to receive specific categories of information.
3. Evidence by proper signature or seal that a document is genuine and official.
- The Free Dictionary

Seriously, Google it. "Authentification" is most likely a combination of authentication and identification. It is not an actual word and there is no form of the word authentication that includes an f anywhere. Think you read it somewhere? Either the person who wrote it was an idiot or YOU ARE PRONOUNCING IT WRONG. Au-then-ti-cation. THERE IS NO F!