CS: Source, emails.

Some really good emails this week. Who should I send the game too?

Ok, I could go about telling you the reasons I want this, but I've already told you them. Instead, I've decided to go with the trends the others win with. If I win this game, I will use it to totally PWN the newb's with my M4A1. I would go around and head shot everyone, in the name of JB Pounders. Then, I'd shoot them after I already killed them. After I got noticed, I'd start my own clan and call it JB Pounding, in lieu of you. I hope you see that I absolutely need this.

Jons

Oh my lord. My heart actually skipped a beat when I saw what you were giving away.
But apart from cardiac calisthenics, why should you give me, a simple girl, Counterstrike: Source? Because I kick ass.
I learned how to play first person shooters when my high school friends would loan me 24 hour access to their Steam accounts, which hosted a bevy of glorious games: Counterstrike, CS Source, Half-life, Half-life 2, Half-life Deathmatch, Day of Defeat... hours of freedom and bloody mayhem would be mine as I learned to snipe, strafe, and re-spawn. But then the brief access would be denied when they reset their passwords, leaving me to pine away at my own computer, resigned to playing Spider Solitaire and the Sims.
When I got to college, I was no longer allowed access to their accounts and I never was able to buy CS for myself due to a lack of funds (because I was buying too much food) and a lack of n00bs to pwn (since I'd be forced to play online and get my butt handed to me. While I was good at sniping my friends on our dedicated server, when I played one time against *real* players, I was laughed of the de_dust playing field.)
What this all boils down to is that obviously, I need this game. I need to become a better player, and a better human altogether. It's fate, don't you see? As I face my last year of college, the memories from my last year in high school are flooding back to me, and only Counterstrike: Source can help me transition into graduate school, law school, whatever school, and beyond.

Yours in snipery,
Vey
Baton Rouge

Hi.

I would like to have your game because I have a ladyfriend that is divorced, her husband left her and the boy and he's a 14 year old boy with downes syndrome (Probably didn't spell that right.) He loves computer action games and I would mail it to him..

Thanks

Brian
Wexford, PA

Hi JB
Counter strike is pretty fun, but I don't want it, I do want ajoost invite tho. Pretty please
Geo-tuscaloosa

Counter-Strike Source(Email me if you want his game for FREE!)

Trying to get back on schedule here guys. This week's item is Counter-Strike:Source a first person shooter for the PC. A friend of me told me that it was really fun but I just can't get into PC games. If you want my copy of it, along with the serial number needed to play online, just email me a good reason as to why I should send it to you for free.

I am expecting take down notice from Jack Thompson any moment now.

Oh yea, I now have free Joost invites. A new service that is trying to replace the TV. If you want an invite just leave your email in the comments. You could also email me.

I am still away from the coat rack, Las Vegas hat, and rubberband ball...so I haven't mailed them yet! I'll keep you guys posted.

I am back from the beach(Has anyone seen my Blackberry Pearl?)

I just got back on Sunday from a beach trip to Gulf Shores. This is why there have been no updates on the blog. I had promised myself I would make a post before I left but never found the time.

I had never lost a cell phone till about 2 months ago. The first phone I lost fell straight from my pocket and into a sewer when I was walking to class. Three university maintenance guys and one backhoe couldn't get it out...oh well. That was also a Blackberry Pearl, well needless to say I bought the insurance this time around so it did not cost me nearly as much as it did before. I lost my third phone at a place called the FloraBama known for its mullet toss(the fish not the hair trend sweeping the nation). The phone went MIA and fell out of my pocket yet again.

No one wants Grapevine! (Besides my friends)

Well, it appears when there is something that is actually cool my friends don't email...When the something is extremely lame they want it. Here are my friends emails. I'll post something that is amazing tomorrow!

These are the only emails I received and they were from my friends:

Hey John Brooks,

I think your site is a good idea. I think this book sounds
interesting, and I would like to read it. Do you think people can
become famous through the Grapevine?
That's what I'd most like to find out.

Allie
Dear John Brooks,

Let me tell you why I need that book: . . .well, I honestly can't think
of a reason. It's just too lame. Why don't you give it to a dog to
pee on?

No, no, no, I'm just kidding. I'm just bored and thought I would send
a rude email to you. The book actually looks pretty good if you're
into advertising. I keep up with the site pretty often. Itsumi and I
got an apartment...it's pretty neat! We will move into it in July.
We're leaving for Japan on Thursday, so let me know if you're in
Florence and want to hang out before I go.

Okay, see you later. Please don't post my email. I'm sure someone
else needs the book more than I do.

Ry

Grapevine: The New Art of Word-of-Mouth Marketing ( Email me if you want this for FREE)

Ok, so I am an advertising major and I bought this book a while back while in an airport. It is an interesting book about word-of-mouth marketing and has some good insights into starting your own campaign.

UPDATE:I have been told this is the lamest something from my room yet...no one wants it! Come on and send an email people!

If you want this email me your name and address along with a good reason why I should send it to you. Send all email to SomethingFromMyRoom@gmail.com

Also, here are some pictures of how I sent the Go! Team cd. My room mate is an artist and I asked to to make a quick drawing on the back of the cd, I then taped it up and threw a bunch of stamps on there... the Buckeye Butterfly stamp. The pictures were taken with my phone's camera so sorry that they don't do the art justice.

The Las Vegas Hat, Rubber band ball, and Coat rack go to...

Kellie! This was one of the hardest decisions so far on this site. Max's email was my second pick but I just liked the fact that dogs and cats were finally given a chance to live in toy harmony. Props to Max, I have found myself saying "Sideways, backwards with a twist" a lot.

Any ideas on how I should send all of this stuff?

Here is where my stuff is now:

Some really creative emails this week.

I received some really creative and ridiculous emails. All of them have some really good quotable lines. Who do you guys think I should pick?
Comment!

I believe that hat should be in my possession because I need a hat. My previous hats are all undersized from my hair growing too much, and I can wear the Vegas hat. It would give me great deal to pee next to someone in a bathroom and say, "Hey, guess where I got this hat?" He wouldn't know because I would wear it sidewards (backwards with a twist). Then I would use my free hand to spin the hat in his direction and say, "Vegas, baby, Vegas!" If he gives me sass, which he probably will, I can unravel some rubber bands and shoot them at him (after I shake and zipper, of course). The coat rack won't do much for me, but if I build a snowball fight fort or something, who knows, I might need a coat rack. Word, homie.

-Max, Pennsylvania

Hi! I just stumbleupon'd your site today, and what a perfect fit it is! I've been wanting to get a coat rack just like the one you're giving away! If you send it to me, I will put it up at my work where it is very badly needed (I broke the old one...flimsy plastic junk).

-Jim

A good reason why I should get these magnificent items? Because I wrote you a poem about the three items.


Thoughts of all the items I've missed
Leaves me crying in my bed
And if i don't get that coat rack I'll be pissed
I'd also love a Las Vegas hat to sit upon my head

A rubber band ball to make even bigger
Man I will deck out my room with this stuff much the same as a diamond grill on a wigger
Sure he's white, but he's got bling
So won't you please send me atleast one thing?

-Mitchell from Georgia

Dear John,

I regret to say that this relationship can no longer continue. Despite repeated warnings I still found you last week in the company of two hookers, one of which had volunteered her ass to be your personal coke plate. Really, John, snorting lines of coke off a hooker's ass is so 80's! Didn't you learn anything at all from all those pirated DVDs we used to watch? I guess not, since I found you in the aforementioned position just days after our talk about hookers, their asses and your nose can- wait, is this John Banks? Oh, crap...sorry, wrong John, just ignore all that.

As you can clearly see I'm not only full of ribald, ersatz wit, I'm also suffering from entirely too much time on my hands. So, to answer your question as to why you should give me your stuff all I can say is:

I NEED that coat rack. No really seriously. I'm a knitter/crocheter/sewer (as in person who sews, not the pipe poop goes into) and make a lot of scarves, shawls and wraps. I have no where to hang them up so they get wrinkled and the cats sleep on them. After all that time spent making something lovely and nice I hate to see it turned into a smelly, hair-covered cat bed. Wouldn't you?

The rubber band ball is also a 'must have' for me. See I have 3 dogs and 5 cats and the dogs love to chase the ball (well, except the chihuahua, the ball's bigger than her head) but the cats don't really like ball, however the cats LOVE rubber bands, so much so that I've had to start hiding them lest they become fun, rubbery snake substitutes for the cats. With a rubber band ball I would not only have a place to store all my hidden rubber bands but the dogs and cats could play together in harmony at last.

The Vegas Hat has my head aching for it. I love odd caps and frequently wear them when I don't feel like messing with my hair (pretty much always) because I'm an inherently lazy creature.

So if you care for things made with love, a peaceful and harmonious home, animals and wild southern women who scoff at coiffed hair and made up faces then there's really only one clear option isn't there?

Your Adoring Fan,
Kellie, GA

PS I'll be over later with the hookers and coke.

A Las Vegas hat, small rubberband ball, and a coat rack (email me if you want these for FREE)

A Las Vegas hat, small rubberband ball, and a coat rack (email me if you want to get these things for FREE)

Hey look, it's the first multiple item give away. I am sending all three of these things to one person. I bought the Las Vegas at a thrift store about a half year ago. I don't know where the rubber band ball came from. It should give someone a nice base to build on. The coat rack came from my old place and I have no need for it now.

If you want this email me your name and address along with a good reason why I should send it to you. Send all email to SomethingFromMyRoom@gmail.com


Update:Wow, getting some of the most creative emails yet. I'll post them tomorrow, so if you are going to submit please go ahead!

Also as a side note Karen received the Mead notebook here is what she had to say

Subject: It arrived!

hey there!

your notebook just arrived, in one piece! ^___^ some of the sticky tape is gone, but it's still closed.

will send you pictures subsequently :)

The Go! Team CD goes to....

Graham! I am going to send the CD to Graham because I think he will appreciate it the most. I am wanting to do something for K. Depression can be a nasty thing. I was thinking maybe you guys could come up with some of the funniest/entertaining things on the net and leave them in the comments.

Like I said in my previous post...I am swamped with school work. I'll give something away tomorrow.

Here are a couple of videos for K:

Hopefully he likes Zach Braff:


Something I saw today that I thought was amazing..and people think this site is a crazy idea.

Here is where my stuff is now: