i have recently started to begin “cooking”. it’s taken me awhile to get to this point, i will admit. i’ve stuck to very basic food groups when on my own – the toast group, the cereal group, and my personal favorite, the waffle group. but getting tired of these favorites, i decided i needed to branch out. so i bought a whole bunch of weird (and by weird i mean vegetable items) foods and stuck em in my cupboards. and actually managed to use them! onions, mushrooms, even far-out spices like “sage” – i incorporated all these items into my foods, to varied success. but the point remains – another basic victory most people learned about years ago.

preamble aside, i’d like to talk about “chatroulette”. this thing is all over the news. you’ve probably heard of it – a site on the internet, made by a 17 year old kid somewhere (much like that “omegle” site) that puts random strangers together, with webcams, ostensibly to meet strangers, but realistically so perverts can flash you. seriously!! if you go on this site, you WILL see naked dudes. it is the internet equivalent of lonely dudes wearing trenchcoats and flashing people in mall parking lots, then running away. but when chat roulette is cool, it is real cool. i’ve only used it a couple of times, but i’ve seen a dude wearing a suit dance to disco for five minutes, a group of people who actually lit their hair on fire, and i’m 75% sure i saw the jonas brothers. not too outrageous – another guy from the city i’m from had a conversation with ashton kutcher. coolio!

if you wanna check it out, check it out, but i warn you – at some point, one of the random strangers that will pop up will be a naked dude. that’s not even a maybe, its a guarantee. im telling you now, YOU WILL see naked dudes. ok. forewarned.

BUT in the interest of science, i decided to “document this phenomena”, as the kids say.

(just a note – chatroulette shut my internet down, and i thought i lost what i had wrote so far, and if that was the case, this’d be a blog post about raccoons. just saying)

the first person i met was wearing some weird anime-style glasses.

i told her she looked ridiculous and she disconnected.

the next dude was working a Dublin hotel lobby at 3 am. he was inexplicably enthralled with this fact, even pointing out where he lived on a map.

but by and large, the people you meet on chatroulette are dudes (naked or otherwise) who register that you are a dude and hit “next” almost immediately, sending them to the next chatter, who they hope will be a female (which is about a 2% chance). i found a good way to counteract this was by showing up with an owl figurine i have. people apparently are fooled and think i have a pet owl (which would be awesome)

looooove the dude’s face in this one. hilarious.

THATS IT SEE YA

jkd