****** Spiff Stuff, Issue 5 ****** "It makes 'Speed' look like a slow ride to grandma's house!" TABLE OF CONTENTUAL STUFF: ------- 1 - THE DEMIGOD SPEAKS 2 - SPIFF NEWS 3 - SITES OF THE TIME BETWEEN ISSUES 4 - COMMENT OF THE TIME BETWEEN ISSUES 5 - SPIFF STUFF ON THE WEB! 6 - NEATO THING TO DO OF THE TIME BETWEEN ISSUES 7 - THE CONTRIBUTION BEGGING 8 - THE CONTRIBUTION (GRRRRRRR.......) 9 - IN CLOSING *********************** THE DEMIGOD SPEAKS! Heyo, and welcome to the very much awaited fifth issue of Spiff Stuff! I know it's taken awhile, but I'm a busy guy. The TV doesn't watch itself, you know! I've been glued to the Indians in the playoffs. They kick! With that said, I'd like to say a few things: * - The Top Ten will no longer be weekly. :-( I'd run out of topics too quickly, so it's been switched to every other issue! * - If you like Spiff Stuff, let others in on it!!!!!! Show em an issue, or give em the Spiff Page at http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/skyliner/110 * - No one seems to like contributing! The form has a few bugs, so don't use it yet! * - This will, hopefully, be the longest delay in Spiff history. There, now go on, my child, and be Spiffy! *********************** SPIFF NEWS! SCIENCE! That wacky, 286 powered, Russian Space Deathtrap, Mir, now has a new American victim. NASA, proving that science has once again reached a time where it has no purpose, sent ANOTHER astronaut no one really liked to die in the big ol HQ for human error. According to NASA, he'll stay on Mir, at least until another "moron with a death wish" comes along. (Sorry there's only one story this week. Issue 6 is gonna be dedicated to news. I have SIX news stories lined up.) *********************** SITES OF THE TIME BETWEEN ISSUES! This week, three sites join the honored members of this fine title. They are: Lago's Joint: (Tell me the real title, Lago!) http://www.dragonfire.net/~lagolord The Official Dilbert Page: (In honor of Thao. Don't ask.) http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert NEMESIS: (Gaming Galore) http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/4400 If you see your page in the section, all you have to do is get the image! It's at: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/skyliner/110/ssaward.html Don't forget to add a link to Spiff Stuff! *********************** COMMENT OF THE TIME BETWEEN ISSUES! "I was doing some thinking today. But I didn't enjoy it very much, so I decided to write this introduction instead." -Scott Adams, Dilbert "Fugitive From The Cubicle Police" *********************** THE SPIFF PAGE! http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/skyliner/110 There it is! The web address! The form isn't working yet. Sorry. If you have the old geocities addy on your links, and it's too much trouble to fix it, don't worry about it. That page will have a link to the new one soon. *********************** NEATO THING TO DO OF THE TIME BETWEEN ISSUES! Here's One: In honor of school, see how many times you can hit yourself in the head with a Spanish book before it has any effect on you! My high is 247 times! Beat it, and your name will go up here next issue! *********************** THE BEGGING FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Listen, people: Spiff Stuff wants CONTRIBUTIONS!!!!!! Email them for now, but soon the form will be working! *********************** THE CONTRIBUTION: The second Spiff Stuff contribution ever! WOW!!!!!!! Tomagotchi. Tomagotchi. GAA!!!!!!!!! Yes, Tomagotchi, the virtual pet from the orient. Sure, it was cute, the first hour or two, but then it just got out of hand. The beeping won't stop... IT'S JUST NOT FUN ANYMORE!! Both of my little sisters have the little pests. I am losing my sanity. Some of you would claim that to be a conincidence, but it's NOT! Luckly, I found little ways to have my brand of "virtual pet fun" (shut up, all you sick readers.) and I decided to share with all the others out there who may suffer this horrible torture. WAYS TO DEAL WITH IT: Basically there are three. KILL, DESTROY and IGNORE. Of corse we all know ignore NEVER works in any situation , so I'll skip it. Here we go: KILL: Yes it is mean. But it's the only way. Every time you want to kill the little bugger(oups... I mean "make it return to it's home planet..") the first step is to turn off the sound. You can read the manual, or just kick the thing until the speaker is broken, just shut it up. One of my fiend likes feeding it candy until it dies. This works. I am not so mercyful, however. I just turns off the sound and then hide it. Problem over. :) I love the face I get when they find it, 9 days dead. :D DESTROY: This is fun too. I personally like stoping, but others like stuff like this: Water Sports, Golf, Baseball, B-B-Q, and the ever so famous why-did-the-tomogatchi-cross-the-road?-to-get-cruched-by-a-semi tomogotchi death. Have fun. :) Now in case you still love your little pal, I have "5 reasons to ditch your little dinky virtual pal, most stolen straight from a "GamesMaster" magazine! 1. THERE IS NO POINT. 2. They have names like "Hooky-san" and "Masimooto-chan" 3. They're out to get us. 4. You become compleatly dependent on the well-fare of 20-40 dots on a screen, wich is just a small step from hard drugs, and YOU KNOW IT! 5. I TOLD YOU TO!!! That was my fun for the day. Until next artice, SYonara, Sy. *********************** IN CLOSING..... Well, I know it's not the biggest or best ever, but it's an ISSUE! BE HAPPY WITH IT! YOU WANT IT TO GET BETTER??? THAN CONTRIBUTE, GOSH DARN IT!!!! Stay Spiffy (Unless you don't at least TRY to contribute!)! *********************** Anthony Bucchioni, The DemiGod xiryc@webbullet.com http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/skyliner/110