This Friday will mark the second year of Looptopia, Chicago’s all-night dance party, art fest, and celebration of drunken tomfoolery. I’ll be there with my bike, makin’ the scene and meeting new people. Granted, I thought this thing was going to be a bust last year but was pleasantly surprised by the amount of people who showed up, leniency twards open alcohol containers, and good-nature that people had.

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I am constantly vigilant for any new information that may make me feel better for not finishing college. Having said that, you can imagine the smile that crept across my face when I read ”America’s Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor’s Degree” by Marty Nemko, published in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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I spent some time doing research for my future tattoos; Samus Aran is getting pretty lonely all by herself. I was looking for a list of old NES games to help jog my memory of some of the games I used to love, when I came across these fantastic rankings of old NES and SNES games. Both lists are on SydLexia.com, which is just a simple blog about old games and other niche nerd things I love.

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Usually I’m excited to have a 3 day weekend, but not this time. I was off of work today to go to my first court date in regards to my current driving status. That status, of course, being NOT ALLOWED TO FUCKING DRIVE. I’ll skip to the good stuff: the infinite wisdom of the Illinois Judicial System has seen fit to continue to suspend my driving privileges.

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The fact that you’re reading this means that you’re a user of The Internet. How would you feel if your shopping, emailing, video watching, porn surfing, and general internet usage was metered, measured, and charged back to you by corporations? Yeah, I wouldn’t like it either, which is why Net Neutrality is vital. Lawrence Lessig happens to agree; so much so that he decided to have a little chat about it with the FCC.

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