Jon Furniss

It’s not just that I’ve been busy, although I have been busy.

But yeah.

I got my own domain name finally, so this is going to be the last post on here ever.

From now on I can be found at:

Jon Furniss, etc.

It’s hardly set up at all yet, but that’s just because I’m lazy.

I’ll take care of it eventually, don’t you worry.

But I hope those of you who have faithfully e-stalked me through the years will continue to do so over there.

Thanks!

Here it is, finally, what I’m sure you’ve all been waiting for. Also, school is finally over for me and I am more or less free for the summer. So hooray for that, I say!

Off to the bookmarks:

We Feel Fine - We Feel Fine is “An exploration of human emotion, in six movements.” It’s really hard to describe it. But it goes out into the internet somehow or other and finds emotions. Check it out, it’s fun and time consuming and interesting. My review does not do it any credit at all, go see for yourself.

Lulu - I haven’t actually used Lulu yet, because I’m all lazy and such, but from what I’ve heard and seen it’s really cool. It’s free to sign up and it lets you publish yourself and then sell your stuff. So you can make money. And I know I like making money (and subsequently spending it in the next few minutes…).

Busted Tees - We all know that I love witty/funny/whatever t-shirts, and Busted has lots of them. A lot of them are a little too pop-cultury for me, but I’m still a fan of the site. And the prices aren’t too bad either, which is pretty awesome.

One Sentence - One Sentence is yet another awesome exploration into the human experience. People can subit one sentence stories to the site and they are then displayed. It’s an excellent showing of how much just one sentence can say.

Experience Project - Another thing I’ve linked before, but is still awesome. Go there, get involved, see how many other people have the same quirky thoughts, urges, and experiences as you. You’re not alone.

Not Always Right - If you’ve ever worked a job dealing with customer interaction you know how stupid people are. This site is a collection of submitted stories of some of the best and the brightest. It’s in the same format as the Overheard sites.

Buttersafe - I also have a huge soft spot in my heart for webcomics, and Buttersafe is one of my favorites. It is plain and simple and absolutely hilarious in all the right ways. It updates Tuesdays and Thursdays and I am there every single Tuesday and Thursday to check it out.
Okay I just got incredibly bored of this for tonight. Sorry for it being so short.

That just means that The Best of My Bookmarks: Part III will appear sometime.

Hooray for the laziness, procrastination, and boredom that had an incredibly anticlimactic orgy to spawn me.

It was somewhere around the time that people started to tell me that I was good at writing that I got scared of it. Once people have expectations you can fail to meet them. I was okay with writing and trying and putting the passion I feel into words before people told me I was good at it. But once people started complimenting me I became utterly afraid of failing. I’ve never seen my writing as anything special, so I was always afraid that people would start to realize that and get let down when they see me writing. Or else maybe they would think that I was all cocky and thought I was good at writing even though I’m not. I don’t really know.

I think that’s the real reason I changed my major. It isn’t because I really hate writing papers. I’m just too scared to try hard, and fail. If I didn’t try on my papers and I got like a B or a B- I was perfectly alright, because hey, I could’ve tried and done better. But if I try and don’t do as well as I expect, then I’m all like, “hey, I’m a failure.” And I don’t like failing.

But writing isn’t always right. No one gets it right all of the time. I need to be able to keep that in my mind and be more than just able to say it. I also need to remind myself that I can still change my writing after it’s already been written and that that is actually common practice and encouraged. I always seem to have trouble going back and proofreading and editing for whatever reason.

The point of all this is? I want to start writing again. I don’t know what I want to write. But I want to write something. I need to write something.

So my latest Web 2.0 not-quite-obsession has been Twitter. I still Stumble from time to time and I still go on Experience Project for usually at least a bit a day, but the best thing about Twitter is that unlike either of those other two, and most, Web 2.0 sensations is that it’s not time consuming. The way it works is that you have 140 characters to say whatever it is you want to say, generally what you’re doing, or even if you just had a random thought or anything. You can also “tweet” from your phone via text message. Its social networking aspects come in where you can add your friends and eStalk them. Which I think is pretty cool, because estalking is not nearly as creepy as real life stalking.

So yeah, start tweeting! Add me as a friend, too, and stalk me online and such. Also, check out twhirl. Twhirl is a freeware app that I found through eD!. It lets you tweet from your desktop no matter what kind of fanboy you are, Apple or Microsoft! It is pretty excellent and makes it a lot easier to keep up with all the people you are stalking as you get real time updates popping up on your desktop.

And that’s how I feel about Twitter.

The end.

So Thursday’s post was the first of (hopefully) many guest posts by Joyceline. As I’m sure you can tell, she’s pretty awesome. She’s prettier than me (which isn’t hard) and she writes better too! The other exciting thing about that post is that it was the 100th post for this blog, so yay, let’s celebrate!

School is almost over for me, I’ve got two more days of classes and then four finals next week. I should have all A’s, except for my economics class, which at this point I don’t even know whether or not I’m going to pass. But then after that is summer! My busyness will continue, but life will be much lighter and easier with this burden off of my shoulder. I’ve got lots of fun plans for the summer, so it shall be cool.

I also intend on updating much morer when school is at an end. It’s not that I spend a lot of time doing school work or even a lot of time at school, but the weight upon my shoulders somehow stops me from actually doing things other than lying around and not accomplishing anything.

I’ve been reading a lot lately. I love reading, but I don’t always like myself when I’m in reading mode. When I’m in reading mode every spare second I get is spent reading and not doing anything else. I read before I go to bed, I read when I wake up, I read when I eat, I read alla time. I then never end up doing things like playing video games, or watching TV (I’m at least a couple episodes behind with Lost), or surfing teh interwebz, or blogging. But yeah, reading is still cool.

I’ve started reading Star Wars novels again. I think I read my first ones back in like fourth grade or so and I instantly fell in love with the Star Wars expanded universe. I just read The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn, which many diehard Star Wars nerds consider the final trilogy of the Star Wars Nineology (I know that’s not a word, so shut up!). I am now starting to reread the Star Wars X-Wing series, which is my favorite Star Wars series. It follows Rogue Squadron, the guys who blew up a couple death stars and such. Wedge Antilles and Corran Horn are my heroes and the two Star Wars guys who I have mancrushes on. So there.

Anyway, I guess my point is that if you’re a nerd at all, especially a Sci Fi nerd or Star Wars nerd, then check out some expanded universe stuff, because there’s lots of fun stories out there. I can recommend some books if you want to know any to read. =)

On a completely different note, Iron Man was pretty incredible. I saw it twice, and it was excellent both times. The humour was well placed and actually funny instead of the far-too-corny superhero comedy you normally get. The action scenes were intense and exciting and all edge-of-your-seaty. The story moving along scenes were also all well done, the movie did not seem to move slow at any parts. So yeah, definitely go see it, it was excellent. I give it two stars and five thumbs up, or something like that.

So let’s talk about The Office… What is going on? It’s not funny any more… It’s still interesting, and I definitely haven’t given up on it. But it is incredibly awkward and depressing. Like, I don’t even know how to describe how I feel about it, because I’m not quite sure how I feel about it. It’s so depressing and awkward at some parts that when something funny actually comes up I feel guilty laughing about it. Oh, and Jim is a jerk. I still love him and consider myself most like him in the show, but he keeps being mean to Pam. It’s funny… but mean. Haha.

And that concludes our evening. I also promise that I will bring you the next part of The Best of My Bookmarks sometime before the end of the month. And I have some other ideas/projects that I will be working on, so I’ll let you know what’s up with them when the time comes.

(Not edited at all from it’s 8am sleepiness)

I am drifting… in and out, in and out, as if my conciousness was the ocean at low tide, quietly lapping at the sand. The seagulls lazily glide around in the sunrise, gently soaring through the sunrise, seemingly mocking me and my lack of sleep. In the background of my mind, or perhaps the foreground and I’m just in the background, my math professor rambles all old-man-like, because he is an old man.

Yawn…

In real life right now, everything is blurry. Blurry rhymes with furry. I like bunnies. I think I skipped a step in that string of word associations. Funnies are blurry… That’s it, or something.

I want to be famous, like a rockstar or actor or politician. And then I want to screw up and not apologize to the world or my fans. I’ll punch paparazzi only if they deserve it. But so help me God, when they deserve it they’re going to get it.

Trying not to fall asleep… How do they expect us not to sleep through this stuff? I mean honestly, I know that I’m lazy and often too tired, but professors should be more exciting or stimulating or whatever.

Right now I’m only thinking with three brain cells, so it’s all good…

Goodnight…

I will have at least one more post today with some sort of comment. Perhaps The Best of My Bookmarks: Part II, we’ll see!

So I got a little bored of stumbling this evening and decided to go through my bookmarks (which is grossly obeise with all of the things I’ve saved from stumbling) and I realized that it desperately needs to be cleaned out, so I’m going to be giving you the links to all the things that make the cut and get to stay in it. Depending on how lazy I feel as I do this I’ll even give you a short description of what the site is about. Enjoy:

Think Geek - I’m absolutely positive that I’ve linked to Think Geek before, but for those who don’t know, this site is fairly fantastically excellent. This has all the little gadgets that you always wanted but didn’t know existed. When I get really rich this is going to be one of the first places I splurge. If you’re saving up money, lock up your wallet, then go take a look around.

a beautiful revolution - This blog/website/whatever else it might be is a fairly depressing, almost always interesting site in which Andre Jordan spills his heart, mind, and soul into letters, pictures, cards, postcards, et cetera. Look around, there’s a lot of stuff to see.

Nice Shorts - Nice Shorts has some fairly fantastic short films. While it also has many mediocre, and even some bad ones, the really good ones shine out. And they also are all rated and show how many views they are, so if you want to avoid the bad ones just don’t watch them. Be prepared to have an afternoon or so off when you go to this site, because it really knows how to suck you in.

Encyclopedia of Life - EOL is like the Wikipedia of living things, but more closely moderated. It lets pretty much anyone put in content, but it is also watched over by professionals. It’s a pretty excellent site to look around if you’re interested in natural type stuff, or if you need any help with an idea for a biology project. It’s still a work in progress, but it’s moved along a lot since I first discovered it last spring.

Starcraft II - Starcraft II is the next computer game that I am actually excited about. I’ve been playing Starcraft since 1999 or 2000 and it is hands down my favorite computer game ever. It’s pretty much the best RTS, despite being 12 years old. And now the long awaited sequal is finally in it’s worked. I get all giddy and school girl-like every time I think about it.

one word - This is an excellent website for writers, and anyone, actually. It gives you one word and then gives you sixty seconds to write about it. The results are then posted on the website, they’re fun to go through and read and see the different points of views and ways that people see things. It’s great when you have writer’s block, because it can really jumpstart the brain.

This one doesn’t really have a title - But it’s a directory that let’s you download the pdfs of a bunch of Asimov books as well as some other science fiction authors. I normally wouldn’t recommend this website, since the design is yucky, and it’s lame. But it’s got some nice content, just the same.

WordSplay - This was formerly known as WeBoggle and what got me through my senor year of high school. It’s online Boggle and it’s a lot of fun. You can play in teams, or alone, and compare yourself to other people who are playing. Check it out, it’s great for procrastination and other non-work related things.

Social Wallpapering - Just another Web 2.0 site that’s pretty awesome. It aims to give you the best free desktop wall papers possible. So whether you want to show off your artastic wallpaper skills or get some sweet wallpapers, this is the site for you.

IMPS - The Relentless - First and foremost I am a Star Wars nerd, that is the first nerdiness I have ever been exposed to and is still the one that is closest to my heart. This is from the people who brought you TROOPS, the Star Wars Cops parody you never knew you needed to see. Currently IMPS only has 1 out of 7 planned episodes done, but it’s pretty fantastic. They’re doing amazing work, and they’re doing it from their own pockets for no reimbursment so they can take their time.

Expiration Clothing - This online t-shirt shop was actually started by a friend of a friend of a friend (or rather a friend’s brother’s friend, or something like that) and I haven’t seen anything new added on in months, but what they have right now is pretty cool. So give them your money for some nice t-shirts.

Block Posters - I’ve never actually used this site, but I still think it’s pretty awesome. It lets you upload a picture of any size and then makes it into a file so that your printer will be able to print it out in pieces and then hang all of the individual sheets up on the wall to make the big picture, with a very cool looking result. Best of all, it’s free! Aside from the ever-expensive ink and paper, that is.

shopliftwindchimes - Another site that I’m sure I’ve blogged about before, shopliftwindchimes is the website of poet Rives, who is my favorite spoken word poet ever. His blog, a bunch of his poems, and movies are on the site. He’s really pretty awesome with words, so definitely check him out.

Molo Design - It’s kind of hard to really explain what Molo Design is about. They have some pretty awesome designs and products though, so go look around the site.

Nathan Sawaya: The Art of the Brick - I’m also a giant Lego nerd, and Nathan Sawaya is one of my personal heroes. He makes fantastic Lego art. If you’ve ever liked or even thought about liking Legos, check out his site.

Street Stickers - Make your own “Hello My Name is” stickers that say whatever you want. It’s free, all you need to do is provide the ink and labels.

Entrepreneur.com - As everyone who reads this may or may not know, I eventually want to go into business for myself doing something. I’m currently not up to that stage in my life, but I hope to be sometime in the not-too-distant future. When I do, this site will be around to help. It’s got all sorts of resources for entrepreneurs and business people of any type.

“Non Subject” - That was the title up on the blue bar… This is just a collection of some really pretty and awesome pictures.

Picsyard - Top 40 Prettiest Pictures - The title really says it all. But they really are pretty. And there really are forty.

Nerdy Shirts - Lots of nerdy t-shirts. This is a website that I wish I had started… oh well. Most of the shirts are really expensive though… Which is probably the number one reason I haven’t bought anything from there before. But they still have some good t-shirts!

Empire City Garrison - Hey, remember the time when I’m a huge Star Wars nerd? Well, there’s more Star Wars nerdier people out there. This is the website of the local stormtrooper garrison here in new york.

eBook Giant - I love to read. I prefer to read the old fashioned way though, with paper and ink and such, but who can really say no to over 17,000 free electronic books? Maybe I just need an industrial printer…

The Pirate Bay - The Pirate Bay is the best place to download any torrents of any kind, from movies, to music, to applications… anything. Check it out. If you’re using Limewire or BearShare or any of those other silly virus ridden things don’t. Go download BitTorrent and start using The Pirate Bay for all your piracy needs.

And although I’m only a little bit less than a fifth of the way through my bookmarks I am going to have to call it a night. I’ll make this part one of the series and give you so more links in the next couple of days.

Also, I’ll have a surprise for you tomorrow!

Check it out:

http://www.noob.us/entertainment/conan-obrien-cadbury-eggs-getting-smaller/