No pain, no game?
First there was the joystick. Then there was force feedback. Now there is the PEU, or Pain Execution Unit. Oh ya baby, that's right... Lets play pong and make our hands bleed! Some cracked out German guys invented the Painstation (so witty I almost shit myself), a pong game with searing pain as the penalty for missing the ball. "I've seen people leave the table with blood on their hands and their skin completely raw," claims one of the inventors. Sweet! Let's play. You can read all about it on Wired.com.

Oh. My. God.
This is even better than the spam I got to sign up for a spam-free email account:

From : "Meridith Barabash" [random hotmail address]
To : [email protected], [email protected]
Subject : forward from Chester
Date : Thu, 07 Mar 2002 07:33:17

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What the hell is this? The email is from Meridith. The subject line says it's something from Chester. And the email is signed by Teador. I don't know a Meredith Boulderdash or whatever, nor a Chester or a Teador. And I don't think Max_Jesse does, either. And I like how they brag they they just spammed 200,000 people. They also need to work on their spelling.

And to top it all off, the "forward" is actually spam TO SIGN UP AND SEND OTHER PEOPLE SPAM. Get no complaints by using ghost email accounts! Riddle email with HTML code and banner ads! Don't aim to spam anyone in particular! TARGET 25 MILLION PEOPLE FOR $900!

Holy Moses, I have seen it all.

Aren't there laws in effect against solicited email yet?

Time travel is possible.
Or so they say.

And I thought taking college-level physics courses was rough.

If you only understand about every other paragraph in that article, you may want to consider smoking some crack or something and coming back to this. It may make more sense then.

"The only reason we die is because we accept it as an inevitablilty."

Enron humor
Click here.

Or here.

Whichever you feel more comfortable with.
(Yes, I know they both lead to the same thing.)

Lunch
Me: if you're hungry, I'll go whenever
Officemate: let's go at 12:04
Me: k
Me: I'm wiritng to you for some odd reason
Officemate: we are socially inept people that can't have a conversation. that's why we're writing to each other
Me: awesome
Me: do you mind if I put this conversation on my website?

What flavour are you?
Heh. "Flavour." Silly Brits or whatever and their extra "u." What the hell is their problem?

It's been a while since any sort of "What X are you?" poll has been shown on this site, and I know you are all dying to know what X you are in regards to food. I came out as bread:

I taste like Bread.

I am a staple in almost everyone's diet. Friends like me are a complement to any other friends I get on with almost everyone, remaining mostly in the background, but providing substance when it would otherwise be lacking.

(If you were not Bread you would be Beef.)

Hmmm... Maybe I'm actually a roast beef sammich?

Looking for some entertainment?
Look no further. Welcome to J-Rome's House of Amusement. Here, you can find all sorts of whack shit to, well, amuse yourself if you're currently so bored that even watching C-SPAN seems like a viable way to kill time. I'm here to help you. You can thank me later.

* Jake gave me a link to a comic strip about a week ago. Warning: This comic contains nerdity and strong adolescent Quake lingo.

* Here's a game every European that loves Grand Theft Auto III would probably enjoy: Hooligans Storm over Europe. "Become the most notorious group of hooligans in Europe! Wreak havoc across Europe, use alcohol drugs and prostitutes to control your troops and whenever there are problems, solve them with a nice little knock on the head!"

* Wheelbarrow Freestyle. The title sounds a lot cooler than what the game itself, unfortunately.

* You're the man now, Dog.

Lucky that my breasts are small and humble
So you don't confuse them with mountains.

Ghey
Looks like those bastards at Geocities are getting rid of their FTP service in less than a month. April 2, to be exact. That really sucks. It's also how we post stuff to this site through Blogger. Therefore, no FTP = no more new posts or updates.

Time to find a new free host, eh? That or start coughing up some cash for some "real" hosting. I dunno if this site is worth the money to maintain, though. :/ It doesn't get that much traffic and it's kinda plain-looking...

You may want to consider bookmarking drive.to/jeromesplace just in case. That URL will always be pointed towards wherever AtG ends up on the web.

It's sucking my will to live.
I'm not sure what "it" is. I think I'm just been in some sort of psychological rut. I'm not depressed or anything. I just feel more indifferent than I usually am. Sorry for the lack of new things to read and my lack of the desire to mingle with others with various IM tools.

My ISP has been really messed up for the last two or three weeks, too. Sometimes, it'll be down for several hours and sometimes it will let you be online for 15 seconds before disconnecting you. Pah. And it's getting slower and slower, too. Right now, I'm getting a mere 26kbps. Hella slow. It kinda makes it hard to upload all of my new goat porn to the web server, heh. Mother is getting sick of it, too, and is considering getting a cable modem again if the rates are decent. We'll see how that pans out. Last time, she called them off the day they were to come because she doesn't want "wires running all over the place." Hmm.

Mother got a new computer, too, which is pretty neat. The old one (4-year-old Celeron 400 piece of crap) got some of its hardware's ass kicked from some virus that my mother got by opening a suspicious email attachment. And instead of replacing the part(s) and hoping that the computer would work again, she decided to get a whole new system. Athlon XP 1700. DDR RAM. Windows XP Home. Some other stuff. Good deal. I set it all up and played with it for a bit, and I really dig that "Spider Solitaire" game it comes with. I'm ok at it. I like it more than Freecell since it requires less thinking, hehe.

Kinda relevant story: Senators propose recycling fee on new PCs

Not much else going on where I am. One of my cousins was up here for a week. Nothing really noteworthy about that. And uh... tan is an ugly color for a car. And you know that show Cops? I love it.