January 2008

Monday, January 28 2008

-Now For Something Completely Different...
Posted at 11:34 PM by Brandon

Update time: I was serious about the digital camcorder. I bought a ton of crap on Amazon after my last post here. I bought a Canon ZR830 MiniDV Camcorder with 35x Optical Zoom!

I also had to complete the kit with a new camcorder bag, extra batteries, firewire cable, and MiniDV tapes. I thought that, you know, since it's 2008, using tapes in a camcorder is about as cool as the average faux-hawk.

I have been messing around with the camera and Windows Movie Maker trying to work on my movie making skills. I've also got to come up with something as far as actually displaying the video on the site, we'll see what happens.

Now for the fun part, I made a new shirt. I just had to. It was a very creative suggestion, and you can and should buy this one at the BreadCrumbINT.com Online Store. If you are still interested in getting a BreadCrumbINT.com Peanut-Butter Sasquatch T-Shirt, just leave a comment or Email me. I will make that design available for you to buy.

Thursday, January 24 2008

-Got MLK?
Posted at 6:20 PM by Kyle

So, I know Monday was Martin Luther King Day, and I started thinking about what he did. Martin Luther King spent his whole life fighting for everyone to be treated equally. He was assassinated because of his beliefs and for the things he stood up for.

I hope that I don't sound racist from writing this, but I'm the farthest thing from racist. Martin Luther King earned African Americans the right to vote the same as white people, and that's one of the things I'm happy for.

In my opinion, Martin Luther King is the only reason that we have a really good chance to have an African American as our President (that I wouldn't mind voting for). However, I am disappointed at the amount of racism that still exists in this country on both sides.

If I walked down the streets of East Wheeling, I would probably get beat up for "trespassing," and in the same light, if a black teenager was walking down the streets of my little town of Bethlehem, people might not say anything, but we all know what they'd be thinking.

I personally think that this is fucked up. I think that Mr. King wouldn't like it either. I can't be positive, but my interpretation of what Mr. King wanted, and what he fought for, isn't the racism from both white people and black people. What Mr. King fought for was equality for all people.

But since when did "equality" mean special treatment? Is Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson interested in equality? Really? What is BET? I don't need to tell you what would happen if there was a White Entertainment Television. What about the issue of reparations? I haven't heard anything about this since it was a skit on Dave Chappelle's Show, but am I really responsible for what people did generations ago? Like I said, Martin Luther King wanted equality, and I'd like to see racism and prejudice end on both sides.


Sunday, January 20 2008

-It's Peanut-Butter Jelly Time!!
Posted at 2:31 PM by Brandon

Ok so, quick back story time: Sometime in November my sister, brother-in-law, nephew and niece moved into my house. My sister, brother-in-law, and nephew used to live here, but then they moved out for a long period of time, like everyone is supposed to. Well, they're back now. Why? That's not important, but the second time around, there's another little hellion involved: the spawn of Satan, my niece.

Again, long story short, she's one of those nine year old kids that talks back, runs their mouth, and is just basically a total pain in the ass problem child. They're pretty much all inconsiderate slobs, except for my 17 year old nephew, Kyle, who is coincidentally responsible for my renewed interest in this website.

In preparation for their arrival I bought myself a small dorm room sized refrigerator for my room, because I knew that they would devour everything in sight. I also started buying my own food and storing it in my room. Well, a couple of weeks ago I noticed that my brand new jar of peanut-butter was nearly empty. Of course, everyone denied it, but Kyle used his sibling intuition or Spidey-senses or whatever and came to the conclusion that the spawn of Satan, that is appropriately named Regan, was lying.

It got my creative juices flowing to say the least and with the help of Kyle and my girlfriend, I went on a week long spree of just humiliating the hell out of her as much as possible. It was the only thing I could do to see justice served, her parents never made an attempt to discipline her or even offer to pay me back even after they admitted they could tell she was lying.

It started out with this. We smeared peanut-butter on the picture frame of her school picture, took a picture of it with a digital camera, spent 2 minutes working on it in Photoshop and then printed it out. We covered almost everything in her room with peanut-butter and even gave her diaper-wearing baby doll peanut-butter skid marks. Of course, one humiliating print out wasn't going to be enough, so for $1.50 we made 10 copies at the Farm Fresh convenience store here in Bethlehem. We gave one copy to former BreadCrumb member Pat and one to his coworker. We took the remaining copies and stapled them to trees and telephone poles around the neighborhood. With the help of Kyle, we even put one in her best friend's (yeah, I guess she has one) mailbox. Needless to say, so far humiliation seems like a perfect tactic.

But that's just where the story begins. I talked to Pat a few days ago, and he informed me that we were lucky enough to leave the original copy in the copy machine. Whoops! Apparently, the next guy that came in to make copies found it absolutely hilarious and started printing out copies and giving them to random people. It's mass peanut-butter hysteria! We came back with a new Sasquatch design, that you can now buy on the newest BreadCrumbINT.com T-Shirts!

We've also planned 10-15 pranks to pull on my sister and brother-in-law for their complete lack of discipline with their problem child!

Let's just put it this way: I'm in the market for a digital camcorder, and you better believe they'll be posted here!

Buy your BreadCrumbINT.com Peanut-Butter Sasquatch T-Shirt today! Down with Tubby, support my peanut-butter plight!

Thursday, January 3 2008

-The Rbk "Edge" Uniform System
Posted at 11:14 PM by Brandon

Let me just start by saying that I have some serious issues with the uniform system that was implemented league-wide in the NHL this year. And by "issues", I mean several.

First, it bothers me that Reebok and the NHL both agreed that they should piss on tradition. The traditional sweater has now disappeared from the face of the hockey world, and it's been replaced with this hybrid mess of football, meets basketball, meets hockey material. They want the jerseys to be more form fitting. When all of this was getting started they said that it would help casual fans be able to humanize or relate to the players on the ice, or something to that effect. Presumably, the casual fan, or couch potato flipping through channels wouldn't give hockey a second glance because it appeared that the players were buried in pads topped off with a saggy baggy jersey.

More recently (i.e. right before this season started), they decided to add what they thought would be some actual functionality to the new uniform system. The new jerseys use a material that was intended to repel moisture. Instead, they got a ton of unhappy hockey players with sweat in their gloves and skates.

"[The sweaters] don't soak anything in, which I guess is what they wanted, but the problem is, it goes through all of your equipment. It goes into your gloves, goes into your skates." link


Second, this was the first time that a league-wide uniform overhaul has been done in any major professional sport, and in my opinion, Reebok got lazy when they decided to make teams choose their jersey design from set templates. Take this for instance:



Here is something that should never happen, and it is definitely one of the things that pisses me off the most about the Rbk Edge jersey. My favorite team's jersey (the Pittsburgh Penguins) above, is an exact duplicate of the Ottawa Senators jersey except for the obvious color and logo changes. Hockey used to be the one major sport that had the most unique jersey and uniform designs. It's a sad thing that I have to say that in the past tense.

The last thing that really grinds my gears about the new uniform system is how the fans are getting completely ripped off. Excuse me if I sound like an old man in a rocking chair, but you used to be able to buy a replica jersey, customized with any name and number STITCHED on to the jersey. For the same price as an "old-timey" replica, you now get a new replica, with fake, unstitched numbers.

I made a promise to myself that I would never buy one of these cheap pieces of evil, and then the Pens had to go and take part in the first outdoor NHL game in the US, the 2008 Winter Classic.

After Sidney Crosby won the game in a shootout, I just had to buy the throwback powder blue jersey with the captain "C" on the chest. I couldn't help myself, I broke down and ordered a new Rbk edge powder blue #87 Pens jersey. Funny thing is, the day that I get the shipment notification I find IceJerseys.com. They sell the Rbk edge jerseys, but they stitch the real numbers onto the replica version at the same price as the other crap. The only downside is that now I won't get my new powder blue #87 jersey till late February. I quickly ordered the jersey from IceJerseys.com, and I plan on sending my NHL.com crap jersey back the second it arrives in the mail.

On top of that, players have been showing their dislike for the new uniform "system" in great numbers lately. In fact, as much as I hate the Washington Capitals, I love the fact that the entire team chose the old sweaters over the new uniforms.

Autumn Sweaters – Given the choice to return to using the same fabric that was used in hockey sweaters prior to this season rather than the ultra-hyped “uniform systems” that were introduced league-wide prior to this season, every single member of the Caps went with last year’s fabric. Wednesday night marked the first time the new (old) sweater fabric was made available, and every member of the Caps had the new model sweater with the old fabric hanging in his locker prior to the game. link


There is a God.


-About Me and Super Paper Mario for Wii
Posted at 4:21 PM by Kyle

This is my first post, so I'm pretty much going to describe myself. My name is Kyle, and I'm seventeen years old. I'm a senior at John Marshall High School. I am currently unemployed after working a Kroger for about two years. I'm dating a wonderful girl, and her name is Chrissy. I've always wanted to be a member of BreadcrumbINT.com, but when Breadcrumb was really popular I was only twelve, and most twelve year olds don't make good posts. So now that I'm a member I hope that
I make a great contribution to BreadcrumbINT.com.

So lately I've been playing Super Paper Mario for the Wii. I've always been a big fan of the Super Mario games,and I was glad to see that this trend has continued. Super Paper Mario is like no other Mario game. This game not only plays in 2D, but it also plays in 3D. Another thing I like about this game is that the other Mario games you only use Mario through the whole game, and in Super Paper Mario you gain more characters as you play through the game such as Princess Toadstool "Peach", Bowser, and Luigi. This game can be complicated at times; however, I would totally recommend picking this game up next time you look for a game for the Nintendo Wii.