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Stuff Folder
I have a folder in my computer entirely dedicated to Stuff™. I say that in the loosest possible sense of the word. It’s chock full of weird internet videos, unfinished posts that never were, little notes to myself that I completely forgot about and whatnot. It’s my very own personal blackhole (first one to take a potshot at this gets banned).
Today I was rifling through it and found a few amusing things.
From a “is blogging journalism?” post that never saw the light:
There’s a trend that’s been ticking me off lately: Blog journalism. Blournalism, if you like. There is a quick and easy way to become a blournaler:
- Start blog (duh)
- Grab stick
- Insert stick up one’s ass
- Instant internet journalism!
- Profit?
Seriously, is it just me, or are people taking this way too seriously? This is what I can’t take about most of the blogosphere: People tend to think that they’re bre
Random pictures:
- My impression of a facehugger from Aliens
- Starman shirt that was out of stock when I ordered it online (If someone can hook me up with a vintage of this, I’d be most grateful — I’m talking sexual favors here — ok, I’m not but still… grateful).
- Images from the infamous image puzzle we solved all together (nothing like multiple hours of community-wasted time)
And the pièce de résistance — I can’t even fathom where the hell this one came from. I don’t remember writing it, either:
How, oh, how can I write something funny? I asked the big blue bunny.
The bunny looked at me, scratched its head, patted patiently on the ground for a few seconds, and proceeded to take a dump.
That’s funny.
What is in your Stuff™ folder?
— sergio on April 05, 2005 
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I have:
- Picture of bunny with pancake on his head
- Video of friend attempting to insert his genitals into: a turtle, a fan, a vacuum cleaner.
- This: (which i saved from some conversation with a guy i met online)
“ah y no, no me hablé claro, no soy nada..
soy un croto jajajja.. no sé que soy… no
lo digo por rebeldía sino que no creo en nada.
creo en la gente que quiero, más allá de que se que son humanos y por lo tanto me pueden fallar ( pero si no fuera así, cual sería el riesgo/ emoción de creer en alguien.. ? =P )”
- Lots of nudity (which was all moved to the pron folder)
- Mexican ninjas
- ETc.
Work(ish) computer:
Take a Break thing from Homestar Runner
Various Strong Bad songs
Flash game Chasm
I probably have more crap at home.
My folder is called “crap” and this is just a little bit of what it has:
-MP3 of “A La camita” Topo Gigio
-Comic strip from Cartoonbank called where a guy is auditioning for the job of boyfriend and declares he’s a “twenty something, caring sensitive man”
-A postcard picture from my parents
-Random pictures of being very silly at work
-Stupid girlie powerpoint presentation forward that was sent to me and I HAD to save in order to see
-Picture of the Puerta de Alcala (dont ask)
-Two protocols, unfinished.
-Picture of some random acrylamide gel
-To do list of six months ago (nothing finished)
-Origami images to make xmas decorations for the decorating contest two years ago
-Random chromosome BAC location document
Darn, and this is then new work computer. I don’t want to think about what my old computer has…
My windows desktop is very very clean.
Everytime I get the ‘There are unused icons on your desktop’ I just make an ‘old desktop’ folder and put everything there. I just checked, and I have an ‘old old old desktop’ folder.
BTW, what happened to the mac on the background of your facehugger picture?
All sorts.
TXT files of blog posts that never were.
Powerpoints of.. er.. “ladies”
Various saved emails (jokes and stuff)
PDFs of high brow stuff that I’ll never read but keep downloading.
Downloaded software that I’ve never installed (usually a recommendation by someone)
MOV and AVI files from circular emails (see Powerpoints above)
Shortcuts and URLs to things that catch my eye.
I’m pretty OCD about keeping my crap organized, so I usually end up with complex nests of files. The “Stuff” folder mostly has shortcuts for programs that I almost never use, along with a shortcut to the “downloads” folder where I store programs that I might eventually install and figure out how to use (I’m planning to sort these into sub folders for various catagories). There’s also a “music” folder in there (all of my music is organized my genre), some scraps of short stories that I never really developed into anything readable, and an essay that my sister wrote for school and wanted me to read for her several months ago (I never got around to it).
Oh, I almost forgot the sub folder of school work from 6 years ago.
I have a ‘To be sorted’ folder that grows and grows and grows. It has swallowed lots of mp3’s, photoshop experiments called Untitled-1.psd, webdesign tests, scripts that might be useful someday in the future but probably won’t, photo’s and several dowloads of my blogging software.
It also contains several folders that contain files that were once on my desktop when it was time to clean up. I put all the files in one folder with a very descriptive label ‘desktop 06-04-2005’ so that if there comes a day I when want to sort it all out, I guaranteed don’t have clue what’s inside.
You should try it sometime ;-)
(mac user)
/usr/[name]/dowloads/stuff - 4.36 GB (1242 items)
So the default download directory for safari/camino/firefox…a sample:
All of the Trunkmonkey movies…love the trunkmonkey.
132 .MP3 files…Best one by Primitive Radio Gods, Worst one by Harvey Danger.
18 Flash games from various locations. From dating sims to hapland…lots o’ weirdness here.
3 versions of my resume
42 Spellchecked .doc files of posts I’ve made to various message boards. Filenames by site and date.
Every Lightwave update since 5.6.2
Four versions of Acrobat reader
SixtyForce and a copy of the Paper Mario 64 ROM
26 Icon collections from IconFactory
A Complete .mov of Star Wars: A New Hope. I recorded it off of a laser disk copy of the THX-Remastered versions from before the Special Edition changes. Thank you FireWire digital video cam with RCA pass through.
4+ Gigs and no porn…not bad. That is basically the dump directory from three laptops (2 PC and one Mac). There are several .exe files that I have NO idea what they are…oh well…
Madferit: Re:Video of friend… Damn. That’s scary.
Sal: That’s the electronic version of sweeping the dirt under the rug, no? and Re:Mac — I believe she just stopped turning on at some point.
Gordon: I do the PDF thing too! My other ‘puter is full of PDF’s describing everything from the inner workings of TCP/IP to the physics of lint gathering in closed spaces. I guess I’m just waiting for one day when I’ll wake up and think “Today I’d like to know about the aerodynamics of purple bumblebees as compared to the flight path of african swallows”.
Pretty interesting stuff cropping up. You can tell a lot about a person by the crap they store in their computer. Keep’em coming!
My stuff folder contains pictures of me and my girlfriends doing kinky things…
Beat my folder! muahahauaahuaauhaaaaa…
I dare not go there… I have 3 DVDs branded “Backup Stuff” 1, 2 and 3. One of them is “ok”, it just has anime, the other has a mindless maze of random stuff I pickup.
I have a 120 gb hd labeled as Crap_ETC
To contents are almost a mistery :S
I have a temp folder on every drive… they have various degrees of actual tempitude.
Lots of subfolders underneath for specific tasks, mini-projects and projects. Eval software (lots of versions), movie trailers, shockwave games (my SWF was broken for soooo long in FireFox), lots of script files. Lots of results of scripts too.
At the office, it’s the same story, but at some point I ditched out and started a \tmp folder. You know, for the really temporary files.
I’ve got a video of this girl I was talking to online doing kinky things…
Shhhhhh…. don’t tell my girlfriend.
YO TENGO UN BUEN DE FOTOS Y ENTRELLAS A SERGIO BIEN BIEN PERO BIEN BORRACHO, JEJE, SALUDOS.
8@: Tienes que ser más específico que eso. Podrías ser cualquiera.
jejeje
A random bunch of text’s that I write when I get inspired, that just stop half way because I went out to eat, and always promised I would finish but never did. Good thing to, because they would of come out as complete crap. Oh, and a power point presentation completely dedicated to my friend, containing an appearance by hitler, talking pie called ‘cheese’ and a theme song.
Thinking of replacing your personal computer?
Look at the impressive technology and client server connectivity of….washers…
http://www.lge.com/products/homenetwork/internetproduct/washingmachine/summary.jsp
- Feujcity.com’s parody of Dragostea din tei (the Numa Numa song)
- Various NES ROM images
- “Movies” of people doing speed runs of said ROM’s
- Ubuntu ISO
- Various files with no extension named “EFUIFE” and such that show up as nothing in Notepad
- PDF file named “User Guide”. Ofcourse I don’t know what for
- table.js I’ve wrote to help a friend of mine who speaks JS better than me (!)
- jokes1.txt to jokes42.txt, few mb each I never had time to read
- some bad Photoshop fakes I keep to remind me I should stick to code and not gfx
- TO_DO list I’m afraid to open
- english subtitles for Snow White (which is weird ‘cause I don’t have that movie nor do I know anyone who does)
- install.exe (could be a virus, don’t know)
I’d have to say… I’m a lazy bastard. My home directory is pretty much my “stuff” directory. It contains an assortment of tarballs, build directories, roms, randome images, a bunch of files named stuff like foo.sh, test.php, bar.py, etc with random code stuffed in them that I wrote testing something out, etc.
I think my home directory contains about 300 files in it.
You crack me up, Sergio :) I was at an internet café and I started laughing so much as I read “Grab stick” followed by “Insert stick up one’s ass” that people around wanted to know which URL I was hooked up on.
I have a folder on my computer called ‘from three formats ago’, it’s like a cyber time capsule.