It all started on March 25, 2008. I had a domain and I needed to put it to use. I set up a humble wiki and let my friends and coworkers create pages and upload photos. It was pretty alright.

Since then, TOTALLIES hasn't changed much. Until now. I figured since the wiki was really only used for uploading silly images, that I should reduce some of the unnecessary load on my server and switch to something a little more appropriate. So I set up a Tumblr account and changed my domain's name servers, and said goodbye to an old friend.

Say hello to: TOTALLIES 2.0

I decided to take the website in a new direction as well; All of the images I am uploading are going to be weird/and or gross. Yep. Sorry if you don't like it (not actually sorry). I hope everyone still finds it entertaining. 

I also created my own theme because I wasn't 100% happy with any of the ones they let you choose. I looked through a lot. I like the one I made and I am going to improve on it over time. I still need to find a place for the TOTALLIES mascot, happy cat.

Enjoy.

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So bookmarklets are all the rage these days. There can be some pretty useful ones like Readability, which strips non-useful information from any webpage, leaving you with nice easy to read text. There are of course the less useful ones, such as Cornify, which covers any webpage with unicorns and rainbows. 

Over lunch today, I (with a lot of help from Brent (thanks Brent!)) created Papmic Sansrus. Papmic Sansrus has the ability to make any webpage the most offensive webpage in the world... but only if you are a designer. It will replace the font of every word to an alternating combination of Comic Sans and Papyrus.

Click here to see Papmic Sansrus in action, or drag the link to your bookmarks bar for easy use on any website. (If you are reading this in a feed reader, you might need to visit my actual website to witness the glory.)

My original intent was to alternate fonts between every letter, but for simplicity's sake, I decided to make a lite version that limits it to every word instead. Through a happy mistake, however, we got it working the way I originally wanted. Click here to see the ultra version, though you might want to refresh the page if you're reading this with the lite version active. This ultra version works well in Firefox, Chrome and Safari, but has some trouble in Internet Explorer. It also might break some page layouts slightly, but I feel it only adds to the effect. It will also cause your browser to chug/crash if you try it on a very text-heavy site.

Brent is also the author of another fun bookmarklet called 3D. Using this without 3D glasses will probably induce headaches. A couple more hideous ones I've found add drop shadows to everything, or add drop shadows to just text. I am unaware of the author of these gems.

Combine Papmic Sansrus with 3D for the ultimate web experience.

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Much like my somewhat successful Pirate Trent Reznor, I've created a new spoof Twitter account for Oprah during my lunch break. Though instead of translating to Pirate, I've used my newly created Bro-Speak translator. 

I present: Broprah Winfrey. (Thanks Ryan Leland for the idea!)

Sadly, though, I'm not the first to have this idea. The Twitter username "broprah" was already taken for this exact purpose, but it hasn't been updated since August. Also it appears to be manually updated rather than with a translator. So basically: it sucks!

I'm still tweaking the translator quite a bit, as there are a lot of improvements that can be made. I'm going to use this Twitter account as a way to monitor and test REAL WORLD examples so I can make improvements.

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I recently discovered that the best way to ask strangers on the internet for a favor is to use bro-speak. I've used this technique twice already with positive results. One person changed something on their website for me, and the other thanked me for the feedback and is "considering it". In order to use bro-speak you must first be bro-literate. Urban Dictionary defines this as "the state of being literate in the language of bros", or "the knowledge of how to speak and write like a bro".

To help you, I've created a rudimentary bro-speak translator, and I'm currently accepting suggestions for missing words or phrases that you think should be included. Try it out here. It works particularily well with certain phrases like "Hey man, how's it going? Are you going to the bar after work?", but not so well with others.

THAT'S WHY I NEED SUGGESTIONS.

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Hey remember that site I made?

It's been just over a month since I launched PrettyPreez.com, my little campaign to get funds for a free camera via strangers on the internet. It started out with moderate success, though all of the donations were from friends and co-workers. I kept up my part of the offer, but things kind of got put on the backburner when I took a 10 day holiday. I feel bad about this, but I fully intend to complete the final set of drawings and kick back into spamming people on Twitter. My goal (besides getting enough for a camera) is to at least get one single donation from a stranger.

Space space space space space.

It's no surprise to anyone that knows me that I've dabbled in the evil realm of MMORPGs from time to time (though "dabbled" might be a bit of an understatement, depending on who you ask). A few weeks ago I read an article about a game called EVE Online, and a player who was part of an in-game "corporation"  that acted as a bank for other players. This bank corporation would loan in-game money to other players and corporations, collect interest, and essentially act much like a bank acts in real life.

The interesting part I discovered was that there is no in-game mechanic that allows people to form banks, which means that it was completely player created and managed based on the honor system. And as it turned out, there are corrupt people in virtual banks just as there are in real ones. One of the members of this bank ended up stealing 200,000,000,000 ISK (that's interstellar kredits, and two hundred billion of them is a lot) from the bank, effectively causing everyone to withdraw their money and almost cause a collapse of the in-game market.

Okay so I realize that this post is getting really geeky really fast, but guys, you should read the article because it's actually pretty interesting. So interesting in fact that I decided to play the free 21-day trial and I was incredibly impressed. I've been complaining to Billie for a while about how every MMO is essentially the same and I want to play something different, so when I heard about this I had wondered why I hadn't tried it sooner. You can pretty much do anything you want and there are no rules, plus it's in space.

Oh yeah also:

Billie and I got new neighbors (a young couple) and although they're relatively quiet in the evenings, we still find reasons to complain about them to each other. For example the guy always parks his car in the visitor parking stall because it's conveniently close to their back gate. So I am officially taking suggestions for passive aggressive notes that I can place on his windshield.

I've also heard him blasting the end portion of Killing In The Name by Rage Against The Machine (you know the part, if not, watch this at 4:35) a total of three separate times in the parking lot. It's really classy. Also we're pretty sure wife beaters and track pants are the only clothing he owns. Despite this I once overheard him say "Gucci is alright, but Armani is better" and I am pretty sure he was completely serious.

We don't normally judge people like this, I swear, but it's just so easy in this case. It's hard not to.

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