IamKrAzE.com | Paul Cooper

I have been looking for large monitors for a few weeks now.. I was going to settle on a 30″ monitor at 1600p when I was recommended a 1080p TV for a better price and more uses.. well after finding some great deals I finally bought my computer monitor… its giant… oh lord what have I gotten myself into…

Stay tuned for suprise pictures…. GIANT being the keyword here.

I am a fan of reading what others say, and I really like to be able to link to those people as well. I often try to post comments on peoples posts that interest me and if they go so far, I like to add them to my visited links. If you have any blogs you would like to recommend, please use this entries comment section to give me the link, the reason its so entertaining, and I will be sure to check them out.

Im talking to you dube.

On a positive note, I checked my feedburner account for the first time…. thanks to the 6 subscribers of my blog! I dont even know of 6 people who read this blog, but since I have subscribers, come out of the woodwork and say hello why dont you!

Some other interesting facts… im the only one out of everyone that uses Internet explorer…sad huh? I am a minimalist (though you cant tell from the site) and my ie doesnt even have buttons , just an address bar.

Damn, I missed the bag of crap!

For those of you who dont know… www.woot.com sells discount items. They sell one item a day, every day..at amazing prices. Not only that, they give honest information about the product good or bad.

The bag of crap is exactly that, 1 dollar items they stuff into a bag for you. It is their birthday today however, so I expect some of the items are going to be worth a bit of money.

During one, somone won a 61″ DLPTV (^ http://www.woot.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=333781, Customer receives 61″ DLP TV as part of “BOC” purchase )

I wish I would have bought one!

Well, this was my 2nd mml ever. For those of you not as nerdy as myself, MML stands for Million Man Lan. What is a lan? Check my post: http://iamkraze.com/the-life-of-a-lanparty

Anyway. I packed two days ahead of time, making sure I brought everything I needed, and more importantly everything I didntneed. I ended up bringing a second computer, a projector we officially pet named the “pronjector” and 2 car subs with tweeters accompanied with a 350 watt amp.

The first day was a blast. Thankfully I was riding with someone (defeat) and his car got way better gas milage than mine ever would. He showed up at my house early that morning and with very little sleep under each of our belts we proceeded to pack like true tetris afficianotoes. It was raining at this time and to combat this we put up a large wall-less tent andput the car under it. We feared that the smallest bit of water could ruin our entire weekend.

Once packed we headed onto the open road. Leaving the tent as somone elses problem. We opened up my cellphone and punched in the directions to our destination. Being the nerds that we were, we refrenced the voice in the phone to the voice in the tank, from red vs blue. Sheila. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecjgqJwaHtI)

After 4 hours of driving we decided it was time for a bit of dinner. We told the gpsto findus the nearest Dairy Queen. It did just that, only all of them were behind us. After many separatesearches we finally found one only 3 miles off the highway in which we could stop at. The person waiting on us had to have been the saddest individual I have ever seen. She looked like she needed a hug. After defeats meal of chicken strips, gravy, toast, and fries (BEST BASKET EVAR) we headed back on the road.

We finally arrived and defeat andI tried to find the actual entrance to the complex. Ofcouse the actual directions were wrong andthe building we were in were completely different from the directions given. After wondering aroundwe finally found were to unload. Defeat had the bright idea to bring each item up individually. This wasnt going to fly with me. Instantly I told him lets go check out the event andI will find us a trolley to put all of our stuff on. Sure enough the event registration had 3 just sitting and I asked to borrow one. He stuck his hand out.. and my first thought was “he wants me to pay him?” so I verbally asked “how much?” He said nothing so I tried another approach, “high five?” At this point he simply said, “take one….” I laughed at the awkwardness, still happy I got a trolly out of it. We loaded all of our gear and headed in. I knew it would happen, as we trollied in our bags, the guy at the desk did nothing but stare at the massive speakers I had on it, I laughed a bit, and told him “they are my headphones.”

Unpacking and putting everything together was a snap. Soon I was set up with a IRC window on one side of the screen and a server browser on the other. It was time to game. A few hours of gaming went by when I got a call from Barby. Apparently they haven’t even left yet… epic failures. I even had to give them new instructions via text message because they packed their instructions in the trunk on the very bottom.

Eventually they got there, I got my retarded walk then hug… she was rather happy to see me, which is weird since last time she was next to me, her friends were fags and left early. I got to meet an4, aka Brandon. He was a cool little emo asian. I only messed with him a bit :).

The newcomer, Steve, one of barbies actual friends was very cool. I am glad to have met him. I really thought the kid was smart and interesting. Go Barby for having cool friends.

We helped Barby and her friends pack on a trolly (notice the trolley skills) and then they soon got into the room to unload all of their stuff. To my suprise they told me they didnt know how to do it… hopefully this was a joke. An4 started joking with me, kid was pretty damn funny if I say so myself. Eventually we got everything working… well whatever you want to call it. Steve had motherboard/ram issues, and barbies computer sounded like a moped at idle.

Soon we got Steve’s computer working magically (bad bios settings that magically wouldn’t fix) and barbies was a different issue all together. She let me hear the roaring of her graphics card… I instantly told her to let me see it.

I took it outside the event (where light still was available) andnoticed that a screw was missing from the fan housing… shit. Our initial thought was to find a screw in something electronic I had… none of them were the right size… oh well right? Well she delt with the sound for the night.

Eventually they retired for the night at their hotel… I however slept on the floor at the event like a true hardcore gamer.

The next day, after they went back to the hotel forever, they came back to find it was ten times louder. We decided to go to walmart and to eat and I was allowed a shower at their hotel YAY.

After eating we went to the hotel, I showered and shaved. I cut myself and made barbie freak out by getting my face wet to make it look like I was bleeding all over.. good times. When I was finally done, I got a complement… I think. She told me that it smelt very “manly” in the bathroom… go axe?

We then proceeded to walmart.. there I bought 2 gallons of gatoraid, 2 cases of alchohol, and she bought an assortment of screws that may fit the device and some engine oil.

On the way out they had music in the midway and we decided to do a little jig. An elderly lady saw me and I instantly asked her….well told her.. she had to dance on the way in. She laughed and didn’t dance.. I guess she thought I wasnt serious.. I then again told her she better be dancing or she is to blame for me hating Kentucky.. she simply pointed at me with her back to me.. im not sure what that means but im guessing it means “hey watch it”

The last day was pretty calm, I spent most of my time on the FTP que. I got brandon at one point to go get my xbox 360 controllers out of my bag so we could all get some mario party into the mix. Turns out he was going through some random Chic’s bag thinking it was mine. Ofcourse later that night I felt bad, and they randomly left again *winks* and I took the time to appologize to the chic. After I did, I realized she had soul calibure on her xbox.. I had a mini orgasm at that moment. She said I could play, so I ofcourse did after a bit of hesitation. After awhile ofcourse I had people in line trying to play me… I rock at that game and it was no contest. Good times.

Eventually her boyfriend came over, and started talking to me. Turns out this was all developer kit stuff the main stream wont see for awhile. He then gave me some swag worth quite a bit of money. Thanks destructoid guy! I really need to email him.

He eventually showed me he knew fatality… wohoo? and he showed me a movie I will never forget. Machine Girl. Its not out yet, but its a Japanese movie dubbed in english… totally amazing.

Shortly later, when I realized barbay and brandon werent coming back, I fell asleep. Final night. The next morning we all finished our gaming up and file sharing. Then the lights turned on and it was time to pack up…. another great trip tho.

I made this waaaaay too long… need to stop.

RAWR

Well today at work I decided to do a bit of page updating. Unfortunately I had to remove my chat box because bots were using it 3 times a minute to spam porn links. I have removed it and It most likely wont come back. You can still comment if you like (pwease?)

Anyway, I also took the time tonight to get the keywords that I want to focus on with this blog. If you havent already noticed, you will see them at the bottom of the main page and the normal pages. I chose not to put it at the bottom of the individual posts because I would like the search engine to avoid those keywords on the individual posts and focus more on the content.

Those keywords are:

Technology, DIY, Do it yourself, Videogames, Gaming, Video Games, Nerdy, Nerdy, Funny, Sarcastic, FPS, MMO, Random, Projects, Hacks, Cracks, Software Mods, Modding, Make your own.

As it says, I would really like to focus on technical things, including gaming and neat little projects. I will be posting my media center project on here as well as my home theater setup and how I got it how it is.

Look forward to seeing alot of focus in the upcoming posts

So what have you guys enjoyed reading about on my blog? I ran into an interesting question: Define your site in 10 words.. I actually struggled to figure out what this blog actually entailed.

I thought well I know for sure I am using this to share my life.. but I also would like to share projects, ideas and great things that I have found on the Internet.

This is great and all, but what ORIGNALITY do I have to offer? I know I have graphic things I can share and I can develop movies, but I really want to write. If you read this and you don’t comment, can you please leave a comment on what you would like to see here, and also give me 3 words that would describe this site

I added yet another feature that absolutly no one will use on this site.

I cant get a comment, but I added a shoutbox… cool?

I havent had much energy to write in this thing. I do however keep updating little parts of it.. but no one noticed because I dont have any traffic to this site haha.

Oh well right? Enjoy this I guess until I write:

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I’ve noticed all my comments were spam, so I have decided to write a new plugin based off the old one. The key to fighting spam is being unique. If you have something no other website has, then you are less likely to be spammed. So I have added a new math plugin based off the old.

Also I noticed the comment box was at the very bottom of the page.. instead of where I wanted it. I have fixed this and made the submit button left aligned and much much more prominant.

So leave me comments now!

How was this done.

BUTTERFLY

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further.

So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.

The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.

Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

–Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us.

Kill Bill Quote I liked:

“Superman stands alone. Superman did not become Superman, Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he is Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red S is the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears, the glasses the business suit, that’s the costume. That’s the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He’s weak, unsure of himself… he’s a coward. Clark Kent is Superman’s critique on the whole human race…”

I added a few updates to the site if you haven’t already noticed.

 First is that my google account is not being used on this site. The great thing about this is that I never expected it to work out the way it did. A long time ago I signed up for a google adsense account during the time they set up. I was helping support them and I thought it would be a good idea to bring revenu into my site. All went well and for a small site like www.teamxw.com we were doing great. I was bringing in about 200 dollars about every 3 months and that money was being used to support the communities server fees.

Well one day googles automated bot was searching our site and noticed there was a thread in the forum with the word “p   u   s    s   i   e   s” on it. Well it turned out the entire posts purpose was to post pictures of lolcats.. if you dont know what a lolcat is, your under a huge e-rock.

 Anyway, the bot that checks that peoples websites are doing the right thing and not making google look bad said HEEEEY WAIT A MINUTE and reported us to their abuse headquarters. The bot couldnt be more wrong.. see the actual thread here: http://teamxw.com/forum/YaBB.cgi?board=stuff;action=display;num=1159406557 

I appealed the decision twice trying to figure out why they wouldn’t even revoke such a stupid violation.

 Eventually I took google adsense off that site and gave up. Two years later, we jump to the present. As a joke, I send another appeal. I basically tell them that I would love it if they removed my suspension, but I didn’t care if they did or not, because I was just going to recreate an account anyway.

 Heres the exact thing:

I am not appealing a invalid click appeal. At the beginning of adsense your bot detected a post on our forums titled “p-ssy pics” which a user started. This post only contained pictures of cats often referred to as “lolcats.”

The advertisements were removed from the forums section of that site and I had appealed the decision.

A few years have gone by now, and the adsense have been removed from that site as it is no longer active.

I would however like to use my same adsense account for a few project domains that I own in the future instead of creating a new account.

I ask that you simply save us the time and reinstate my current account so that I can use the same account for the upcoming projects.

Thank you for your time.

Well, literally 20 minutes later I dont get a reply, but I notice the ads that I am messing with have started working. I go to login to my adsense account to only notice it has been reset? Without an email and without removing the suspension, the person who read my email simply just resets my account. Hilarious to me.

Apparently being nice the first two times didnt work. The “hey I dont give a shit, dont be a dick though” approach did work.

Long story short, the website has advertisements on it.

Also check the link called KrAzEtv above. Eventually I will be manually picking all the shows on it, and you can watch the stuff I feel is worth watching. For now however, its just random shit.

K, back to talking to the love of my life. P.S. if you want her nudes, send me an email and 10 bucks to my paypal.