Today is a great day. =]

The vent pumping air in my dorm room smells like apple pie. :)

Autumn, how I've missed you.

WEEEEEEEEEEE ONLY PERSON ONLINE!
GET NAKED!

It's annoying to get 'friend' requests from exgirlfriend's (ex)boyfriend's on social networking sites.

Needed extra money, so I decided to sell my custom Billy Mays figure on eBay. Hope it sells.

Argh, Icebaby yesterday some guy showed me a few disturbing videos. This one child just literally cut some guys head off somewhere in the Middle East. Some dude apparently tried to commit suicide with a shot gun and survived and had no face. There was a third, but forget it.

Apart from all the pain associated with it, one of the greatest simple pleasures in life is to involuntarily find long black hairs of the woman you love, on your bed.

Disgusting... Especially about the child thing.

...On an uplifting, and far less disgusting note...

I don't know if this counts as advertising or not (and forgive me and let me know if it does), but...

I logged into Twitter today and checked the trending topics. The biggest topic all day was #beatcancer. So I followed the link and saw this on the search page:

eBay/Paypal and MillerCoors are donating a cent per hashtag (via tweet, Facebook update, or blog post). The campaign is aiming for a Guinness World Record “for the distribution of the largest mass message through social media” in one day.

They forget to mention exactly where they're donating, but it looks to be the Center for Advancement in Cancer Education. Just thought I'd put it out there.

(I don't think this counts as posting a personal website for hits, right? )

If retailing actually did donate a small percentage of every sale to "cancer awareness" or cancer would have been cured by now. I never give into the hype, it's all a marketing tool. Nobody ever knows where the donations ever really go to.

I have to disagree with you on that one, Alpha. Cancer is an extremely complex disease. As our society technologically advances, treatments become more refined. But in order to continue the research for better methods, funds must be acquired.

The problem with most of these campaigns is that they focus on raising awareness more than finding a cure. The worst part is that there is virtually no funding going into determining the definite causes of breast cancer. Also, like Alpha said, it really is a marketing tool for these sponsors to get their products out and have them purchased by women.
A small percentage does go to some organization, but anyone who is serious about finding a cure for the disease is much better off making a personal donation to a cancer research foundation instead of buying pink M&Ms and wearing a pink ribbon on their chest.

I love me some pink M&M's...

See, I thought that was the case too! And I do enjoy my short hair because it's so easy to work with, but at times I look back at my long hair and go, "I miss that doo."

:o

I did a report on this for my communications class, and its amazing how much money is spent on these campaigns that when money is raised they usually break even hence the "non profit". Its not necessarliy the company's fault (ie. M&M's, Best Buy, or whichever company) because it puts their name out there but most of the time they are misinformed by the actual company who promotes the ribbon and the pinkness. It raises awareness that breast cancer exists, but thats about it. Like Jerrod said its best to donate you're money straight to the source and not buy a bunch of pink products. These funds don't go anywhere near new or more advanced equipment to cure cancer.

Medium looks good, but so long as you dont do the short hair it should be all sweet :P

I feel like you should remove that link before you get in trouble. Gosh, I couldn't imagine just wishing you had died instead for the rest of your life.

To be fair, there was a disclaimer before the link. I feel people around here are smart enough to use their own discretion before choosing to open the link or not.

Oh wow I just rechecked the Community FAQ and there is no rule against posting excessively disturbing images. As long as it isn't pornography or copyrighted, you're good to go. I just didn't want to see you get skulled, or banned you know?

So that's fine--some poor guy getting his face opened up like that? No, it's just not appropriate in any sense and trying to refer to the Community Faq for some loophole to justify posting it doesn't automatically deem it free to be shown. C'mon, as long as we've all been here, there's no way in heaven, hell or Sesame Street that something like that has or will ever be allowed on the boards just cause it may not be 'in the fine print' as it were.


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