Pete Townshend’s original Rickenbacker 330 12 string on eBay

Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by spencer in Art, Idiocy, Music, Paid

IF you read this blog and have no idea what to do with your truck-load of extra cash, will you please stop fucking around and buy me Pete Townshend’s original Rickenbacker 330 12 string? Will ya?
Who knows if it’s really authentic or a well done hoax, but if Pete didn’t get awesome and smash it, the guitar must be a real beauty to play.

You have the rarest of rare opportunities to bid on a piece of genuine rock n’ roll history. This is a 1964 Rickenbacker [...]

Shit is Blowing Up On Our Sweeps Page

Posted on 10. Jun, 2009 by spencer in How's Business, Idiocy, Music, Paid

Synthesis is giving away iPods, CDs, DVDs and more, and all you need to do is visit our Sweeps page for a chance to collect your free shit. And everyone loves free shit. Except Osama bin Laden (and he’s soooooo yesterday’s news). Here’s what we gots:

See? shit is BLOWING UP!

Charter’s Ultra60 Mbps service, Best in St. Louis!

Posted on 08. Jun, 2009 by spencer in Paid

Yeah, I know: I can hardly believe it myself. Charter’s Ultra60 Mbps is the fastest service in St. Louis. Since Charter’s Ultra60 Mbps happens to be this post’s sponsor, I should quit being facetious and note that they are also one of the fastest providers in the nation, so they claim. I am feeling rather inclined to crow on about their viability in providing Internet with phatband speed….which I am to assume means “super rad fantastic speed.” Right now it’s based in St. Louis, but look for it nationwide [...]

Baby Formula Savings Calculator

Posted on 01. Jun, 2009 by spencer in Paid

I hear the costs of having a baby are second only to starting your own sovereign nation on an island in the Gulf of Arabia. At least that’s how it seems. Of the several people I know with new babies or ones on the way, finances are tight, especially IN THIS ECONOMY. Hell, my hours have been slashed here leaving me in a state of half-time, like the undead equivalent of a member of our workforce and I’m sure the extra mouth my boss will have to feed will take [...]

White Hat Hacker: EC Council

Posted on 13. May, 2009 by spencer in Internet, Paid

There’s a few dudes around our office who make sure that this site, and all of our other side sites within the Synthesis realm, continue to work seamlessly to deliver you the royal goods. They’re both doing good in this world, but I can imagine a darker time in their younger lives, all hopped up on 2-liters of Mountain Dew, their greedy little fingers leading the charge into those forbidden corners of the internet(s). Just who, on God’s earth, would create a worm virus and unleash it onto all the [...]

HomeAgain and Be Kind To Animals Week (May 3rd – May 9th)

Posted on 07. May, 2009 by spencer in Paid

Last week my girlfriend’s pet rat killed by her other, newer pet rat. It was pretty gnarly so I won’t go into the gory details here, but let’s just say it was one of the more graphic and disturbing scenes I’ve had to deal with. Even though we were understandably furious with her surviving rat, my girlfriend refused to get rid of it. Why? She loves animals and wouldn’t want any harm to come to her weird, sociopathic pet. I still referred to the little bastard as “snake food,” but [...]

Gift Cards at Charter.com

Posted on 06. May, 2009 by spencer in Paid

Considering that I have neither a home phone, any sort of cable television service or internet access (not counting occasionally stealing a weak signal from a neighbor), I figure it’s as good a time as any to talk about this blog page’s sponsor, Charter Cable and, more specifically, Charter’s Free Gift Card Sweepstakes and Charter’s Twitter page.
The Deal: Charter Cable is giving new and pre-existing customers a chance to win gift cards in this merry month of May. And there’s no obligation to buy. As Bill would say: [...]

Mosquitoe Magnet: Bug Death

Posted on 04. May, 2009 by spencer in Paid

Okay, whoever’s reading this who hates mosquitoes, please raise your hand. Let me get a count here…alright, even though very few of you actually just raised your hands, I can guarantee that no matter how much you ascribe to the live-and-let-live philosophy, when it comes to the mosquito debate you’re all on my side (and if you actually raised your hand just now I love you and want to marry you. No dudes, no pets thx.)
With Synthesis Blog’s obvious entomological knowledge (type “mosquito eater” into google. SEE!?), it’s [...]