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A radio play that may be of interest to chups across the blogosphere. Coming sooner than anyone may expect.

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Summer Time

Hello Fine Gentlemen.  I've been on summer break for 3 weeks and i thought i would come back to tumblr and tell you all about my life.  This summer some major things have changed. I live in a new apartment.  A few blocks off campus but only a 10 minute walk max to my classes.  Before this weekend it was pristine. Bathroom was clean. Room well my room looks like a bomb went off in it. clothes everywhere. But my Desk and computers are well organized. Kitchen and living area were clean and looking great. Feel free to come visit its a great place. Much better than the last one.  Also i have the prius at my disposal for the summer.Now what have i been up to this summer you may ask?  I've been working for the Vice President of Student Affairs at Illinois State University as a Network Support Specialist.  Aka tech support to the business end of the school, Housing, Campus Dining, Student Health Services, ISU police department.  All sorts of fun stuff. It is a blast. More details on the job in another post perhaps.  Also Miranda has been staying with me for the past 2 weeks and will until she goes back to Carbondale for summer classes.  My apartment is currently trashed because I had visitors who drank alot of alcohol and refused to stop drinking even though it was clear they were all too drunk be walking.  As a result I have some construction stakes in my apartment(wtf) mud all over (wtf) and a now cleaner kitchen from a previous case of projectile vomiting(wtf). I went to bed and let my roommate run the show and look what happens. Tonights going to be a long night of cleaning i think.  Also my shifts at work start at 7 AM so this weekend i've been waking up at 8 AM even though its a weekend.  Being productive like a boss! I rooted my phone yesterday and now I'm configuring my desktop to alternatively run as a ubuntu web server. Though this is only experimental.  I hope to have this up and running by the end of next week.  Back to working exclusively through command line interface! 

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Chups

Inspired by the Chicago Bulls, Googan and The Artist take to the courts

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I would like to take this opportunity to thank David Karp, Tumblr creator, for giving The Chups a platform to disseminate media to the community.

Thank you,

The Artist

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A sight like this does a hungry artist's eyes good.

On a side note, big ups to The White Turban doin it real big with his new juice rap jam

-The Artist

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[COAST TO COAST] From the East Coast to the West Coast From New York to L.A. From the Mississippi Delta To Alaska far away There’s a certain time that happens Every seven days When jolly jokes are told And frosty mugs we raise Yo didn’t you hear it? Five chimes on the bell tower Yeah and if you don’t know by now I’m talkin’ ’bout Happy Hour So say hi to Rusty for me And say hi to Bubba too And man, if you’re feelin’ lousy I’ve got some advice for you: [ENJOY THE RHYME] You’ve been thinkin’ about work For a long, long time So sit back and relax And enjoy the rhyme [DRINK YOUR JUICE] When Friday day meets Friday night When you drink your juice and you feel all right When your head gets light and your troubs take flight Don’t you know it’s happy hour [WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE FLAVOR] I know it’s late and baby I’m sorry But I have to ask you now What is your favorite flavor (What’s your favorite flavor) Diet Coke (What’s your favorite flavor) Juicy Juice (What’s your favorite flavor) Orange Juice (Tell me my brother) Ox Blood (Tell me my sister) Lemonade [JUICE RAP] Orange juice, pear juice, juice of berry Water, soda, juice of dairy Cold limeade with hint of cherry Quit your work talk—just be merry Grape juice, apple juice, tropical blend Juice too sweet to comprehend Dixie peach I recommend Grab a cup and drink my friend Pulp, no pulp, juice from concentrate Freeze em as ice cubes, you’ll state they taste great I’ll enunciate another eight: Peach, poo, pear, grape, papaya, plum , prune, date Cranberry Razzamatazz Taste way cool like-a far-out jazz Try some pineapple pizzazz Sit on down and have a glass Pomegranate temptation is sweeping the nation And mango madness is the latest sensation Try papaya squeeze it’s like takin’ a vacation Fruity glatiation for your oral irrigation One last thing before I leave I’ve said it before, I believe When work’s got you grievin’ don’t be naive From your memory bank, this tip you should retrieve [REPRISE] You’ve been thinkin’ about work…

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Fuck macs

Thank god for dropbox.  That is all.  So yesterday I finally got around to my plan to quad boot my mac.  I choose the mac because it’s a lot easier to resize and create partitions off an existing hard drive that a PC. (read fucking impossible). I’ve wanted to do this for several weeks but I kept running into roadblocks. The primary one being that the hard drive had been corrupted sometime in the past 3 years.  Whenever I would try to start the mac with the install disk it would kick it back out and I couldn’t repair the drive. Yesterday I finally got around the kicking problem by finding out that macs have a feature where if you hold down the mouse button it will eject the inserted disk. THAT IS FUCKIGN RETARDEDDDDDDD. But my computers trackpad mouse had been stuck for a while so that would explain why it ejected the disk.  After taking apart the computer and then just banging on the trackpad it was finally dislodged.  And just like that repaired the hard drive and partitioned it into the Original mac OS drive and 3 30 GB drives and 1 GB swap drive.  Installed some software that is less of a pain in the ass than Bootcamp and I began!

                I downloaded and installed to disk 3 different linux operating systems. Yeah yeah I know I should use virtual machines but :care:  Installed Fedora 14, a red hat project that seems cool. Works fine, played with it for 5 minutes, then moved on to the next one, Ubuntu 10.10.  Ubuntu is the most popular and from what I hear one of the easier linus distros out there.  That took a while. I actually installed it 3 times(my dumbass).  It’s my goal to become intimately familiar with Ubuntu over the coming months and would like to be very competent at command line user interface, Successfully installed that, played with it. Noticed hey its 6 AM. I should go to bed. Orrr I could install backtrack.  Backtrack is a complicated piece of work Its built off of ubuntu I guess and it deals in penetration testing.  It has a lot of hacking tools built in but it is for advanced Linux users. I successfully installed that and as I go to finish instead of properly shutting down the computer using “shutdown –h now” I just hit the power button. JOHN YOU FUCKING IDIOT YOU’VE COMPLETELY BORKED THE COMPUTER.  The hard drive seems to be inaccessible.  The bootloader tool disappeared and shit is downright slow and iffy.  Spent a couple hours trying to undo that but it looks like I’m up shit creek without a paddle.  Thank god I backed up everything on my external.  I lost nothing.  Even the cover letter I wrote yesterday was saved on my drop box.  So far today I’ve erased the fucked up partitions and started anew. Installed mac OS and now I’m doing ubuntu.  I’ll do backtrack after that and I haven’t decided if I want to do another OS like fedora or debian or even Windows 7 or just leave the last partition blank. I don’t know. Stay tuned for another exciting technological post by john!  

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Linux inbound

Chup post from my new netbook. What is that? A new computer? But you already have two computers and a smart phone! Yeah I guess I'm just a technology whore. I'm sure you will be glad to know that I only spent 50 dollars on this computer. A good friend of mine recently received an ipad for his birthday and decided that he no longer needed his HP mini 110. Its a little over a year old and has a cracked screen case but it worked just fine. I decided to completely write over the Windows 7 preinstalled on there and start adding Linux Operating Systems. At first up I installed a ubuntu version for netbook but it was being frustrating and wasn't connecting to the internet very well. It was fun and I didn't mind it but I decided to do something else so I'll keep the .ISO on my external for future reference. I Downloaded some other operating systems, Debian, MintOS and Fedora but I havent installed any of them on this computer because i'm enjoying this one called Jolicloud. It is cloud based and pretty much requires the Internet. You can save files on a particular computer but the idea of Jolicloud is to be able to access files from anywhere on different computers. Its a small and pretty fast OS that is pretty much meant for netbooks that dont have large amounts of storage on site but the capability to run programs and be very portable. I'm loving it. Its also crossed a netbook off my list of things I want to purchase. And it only cost 50 dollars. Happy Happy Joy Joy.

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"Mystery on the Dance Floor (The story of what did me in)"

Sir Rhymes-A-Ton feat. Superfrog

Written by Sir Rhymes-A-Ton with help from Superfrog

White Turban reporting for duty. The chups have been enjoying a long vacation but they are all officially back and ready to begin posting pronto. I myself haven't had time to prepare anything, but I was in Aruba visiting famous rapmaster Sir Rhymes-A-Ton. This is a hot tune he wrote after coming back from a college party. The editing is a little rough but please bear with him.

Lyrics below:

Well I am standing at a party, red cup in my hand

Something crazy starts to happen, something I don't understand

Though the music keeps on playing (man, you gotta love this band!)

Everybody stops their dancing and the start to simply stand

"Whatcha doin keep on groovin" I say as I shake my butt

But everybody looks sick like they just ate at Pizza Hut

They begin to run away with their noses pinched shut

And I'm still dancin' and romancin' and I just ask "what?"

C'mon everybody, why aren't you dancin'

C'mon everybody, why aren't you romancin'

C'mon everybody, just shake shake shake your butt

Why'd you all stop groovin? Why? What is it? What?

As I proudly stand my ground on the dancefloor with a grin

As I keep my hips gyratin & I shake my "loony bin"

I sense air between my buttocks. Ah, the problem lies therein

I begin to smell the roses: 'Twas a Fart that did me in!

(Twas a fart) A fart fart fart fart fart fart farty

(A simple toot) A teeny tiny toot that ruined that perfect party

(Twas a fart) And don't you know, a fart is a powerful thing

Stinky sounds and smells abound when my hips start to swing

Thought sweaty palmed I remain calm

Relaxed like I heard a lullaby by Brahm

I grind like it's prom, I sway like a palm

All of this despite my reeky stink bomb

I remember the words of my favorite psalm: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of stink

I will fear no gas, for thou fart with me" (Psalm 23:4)

Everybody, fart with me now

(Twas a Fart) Twas a fart that stunk up the dancefloor

(A simple Toot) A timid toot that rocked you to your core

(Twas a fart) that united our backdoors

And left us dancing more and more and more

(Superfrog here)

(Twas a fart) You didn't think you had it in you

(twas a toot) but could it be you fancy dumpy doo

(Twas a fart) you didn't think that she would go poo

In her diaper someone wipe her ooh!

(twas a fart) man, that was one whacked out gas spout

(a simple toot) a badder fart I can't tell you about

(twas a fart) did something brown just slip out?

SBD [Silent but deadly]... without a doubt

Farty baby, farty farty baby baby

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Which chup has the most game?

Thanks for throwing us an easy question. Which chup has the most game, you ask? Well, that would be White Turban.

Anonymous asked: Why don't Derick and John of Lahania post more? The simple answer to that is that they are about to upload a Mega-post they have been working on for weeks. Stay tuned!

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Apologies for not posting over the weekend like i promised.  But i went without well any of my stuff from about noon friday till about 4 saturday.  That included my phone charger my laptop, my clothes and many more things. Also my phone was four loko'd so now i have a droid 2. God i love this one even more than the droid one!  Anyway I had a blast thursday night with some fellow chups. Friday was interesting in a massive clusterfuck that to be honest id rather forget.  Ultimately unofficial was ok but U of I was fun because of certain people.  I am no longer single.  I anticipate making more post this week as boredom sets in. Until then. Stay frosty mien friends

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Boneyard Creek Interview

Superfrog's interview with a secret Boneyard creek expert about the creek, his pet project:

1. In what ways has Boneyard creek affected the community?

This wiki link answers alot of questions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boneyard_Creek

Before significant work was recently completed, the Boneyard Creek caused serious flooding through out the area and was an eyesore when not properly cared after. [It p]ositively provides a much needed drainage source for storm run off as well as a nature recreation site.

  2. How has the community spent money on the creek?

 Yes - the large detention basin north of Green Street to alleviate flooding and have now completed phase 1 and phase 2 Boneyard Second St. detention project - see link:

http://ci.champaign.il.us/departments/public-works/residents/stormwater-management/boneyard-second-street-detention-project/

This site contains a good history as well of the project

  3. How, if at all, does the university invest any of its resources in the creek?

I can't answer this question

4. Generally what attitudes does the community hold about the creek?

The community as a whole values not only the drainage benefits of the creek yet in addition the recreation and asthethtic benefits of having this watershed run through our community which has few other natural environmental resources.

  5. What dangers does the creek face?

Always the danger of neglect of maintenance and care. While the city of Champaign has been pro-active in recent years, Urbana has been far less so.

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CHUPS CONQUER CATAN

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BREAKING NEWS: for the first time in his life, the white turban has arrived to class before his classmates and teacher.

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

Hello and thanks for reading. The chups are a group and as such the two people answering your question (White Turban and Superfrog) can't speak on behalf of the whole group. But our favorite inanimate objects are as follows:

White Turban: loves music

Superfrog: loves dead frogs

Ammendment-

Googan the Greedy: Municipal Bonds (tax free)

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why are chups cool?

The chups are cool by definition. It can't be chup if it's not cool. Ipso Facto.