Today in History: December 30
2006: Sadaam Hussein was executed by hanging.1995: United Kingdom experienced their lowest temperature ever, -27.2 C. 1981: Wayne Gretzky sets a new record with 50 goals in one year. 1977: For the second time, Ted Bundy escaped from his cell in CO. 1953: 1st ever color TV's go on sale. 1940: CA opens it's 1st Freeway. 1924: Hubble announces existence of other galaxies.
Did u know her???
It's driving me absolutely nuts! A celeb dies, an it's on my news feed for 3 days! There is no need for u to repeat what the last 10 people said! We all know she's dead! The worst is those who are "so sad" and upset about Brittany Murphy passing. Did u know her??? Do u know anything about her other than "Rollin with the homies" and a few okay movies??? Had u not realized in the past 5 years that she was a crack head? She was fatter in Clueless than she has ever been = cocaine habit, duh! Do u think that her death will prevent some major blockbusters from coming out??? No! So get over it, geez. Unless u are obsessed with her, have a poster of her in ur room, have read her book, or memorized all of her movies, then YOU R NOT SAD!!! Get a life please :)
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Little asian works the acoustic
This little boy is about 4-5 years old, from what I can guess. He plays THE shit out of a little Ukulele, and has enough stage presence to take on Sanjaya Malakar. You can't understand a WORD he is saying, but it's still really adorable! I saw this video highlighted on Ellen, and I freaked out. This kid, who was also in another popular YouTube video, isn't even old enough to form fully understandable words, yet he has 11 million views on his YouTube video.... Rock on little man!
Jersey Shore Nut Store
Okay, soooo the 2nd week of JS wasn't as thrilling as the 1st, but still oddly entertaining. I think part of the problem is that I was way too excited about seeing Snickers get knocked out, and have been counting the days until episode 3. It's sad that she gets punched, don't get me wrong here, but I just can't wait to see how it actually went down! Anyways, I read somewhere that the ratings for episode 2 DOUBLED that of the 2-hour season premiere. The show has been receiving tons of heat from "true" Italians, who believe that the show is degrading their culture, blah, blah blah. Anyways, not only is this causing more and more people to tune into the show, an alarmingly ginormous fan base has already developed. Kids are gettin' a kick out of these Jersey Shore Nut Stores.
Snookie "Snickers", JWOWW, Sweetheart, Mike "The Situation", these are some of the incredibly comical nick-names that some of the people on the show have given themselves.
Click on this Jersey Shore Nick-Name Factory to see what YOUR JS nick-name would be! There are some pretty good ones in there, I'm not gonna lie! I got "Vibe Time" and "The Opportunity", and when I did it for a friend, I got "Danny Tan-ner" and "Juice Springsteen" Ha-larious!
I am the Mayor of Las Vegas
As I sit here and watch Casino, a top 10 movie, I can't help but obsess over how bad I am ready to go back to Vegas again. My last trip was a success show, and I came back with a lot more than just empty pockets! (wink) This pic exemplifies the feelings of power, invisibility, and kick-assness that overcome you in that town. I am the Mayor of Las Vegas.
HOB LOB
The greatest arts & crafts store is bar-none; Hobby Lobby. The place is freakin legit. It's no secret that arts & crafts is my main game, but my supply-shopping-technique is. Not only do they have anything and everything you could ever need for a craft project or home decor, but they put on the greatest sales known to man. They have a super duper 50% off sale that is CONSTANTLY going on! They rotate the sale by sections in the store, offering weekly mega blowout prices on certain items. It is key to pick up a schedule and knock-out shopping according to the schedule. For some reason stuff just looks so much more enticing when it's 1/2 off!!!
The 50% off sales are not the only trick to shopping at Hobby Lobby. I want to be clear when I state that these next tips are only for the brave-hearted criminals inside of you all. I don't actually utilize these tips myself, I'm just sayin..... Anyways, though Hob Lob is offering turn-of-the-century crafting supplies, they don't really operate on a state-of-the-art system. Homegirl at the register is still manually typin' in the prices based on stickers. Ahhhhh... the sticker swap. Classic move for a true Hob Lob shopper. Terrible. But clever, and useful when Poly-resin is 50% off, but ceramic isn't :)
Lastly, is not a tip, but a confession. I've not admitted this to many, but in honor of my undying affection for Hobby Lobby, I think it's time I come clean. Once long ago, a friend an I discovered a Hobby Lobby theft-tactic on accident. We were having a Hob Lob shopping spree (which for me, is every time I enter the doors) when we found some relaxing water fountains that would be PERFECT for our moms. We picked 2 out, and placed them on the bottom shelf of the shopping cart under my mountains of paper, paints, flowers, fabric, canvases, ornaments, frames, beads, and anything I could find that had anything to do with birds or was 50% off. I quickly scan the check-out counters to locate the checker who looks most unfamiliar to me, and therefore, can't have worked there any more than a week. Check-out immediately becomes a cluster-F as I try to convince the poor girl that every single thing I have is indeed on her 5 page 50% off list, and there is no need at all for her to sit and labor over it. It gets hairy, since I need everything wrapped in paper, please, and I will be paying using 2 gift cards from my mom and the rest in cash. We load the bags into the cart, and leave the store without her ever noticing the water fountains! Holy Crap! Do we go back in? NO! I feel really bad to this day, but I am confident that I have made up for it in hundreds, maybe thousands of dollarific ways.
I LOVE HOBBY LOBBY! But seriously, quit closing on Sundays. Sundays hold great aura for creativity, and you're holding me back!
Can I marry my iPhone? Part III: APP Factory
There's really no need for me to open each of these with a paragraph on how kick ass the iPhone is. Most people already know this. Those who don't either; 1. have never played with an iPhone, have never felt the glory, and are sadly lost in the dark, or 2. have played with an iPhone, can't break their Sprint contract, are super pissed about it, jealous of your iPhone, and secretly wish every single iPhone-hating second of their mac-hating lives that they were cool enough to have one. So, anyways, onto my main topic of the day; Apps.
There are now over 100,000 iPhone apps listed on Apple's iTunes store, up from 10,000 a year ago, that's an annual growth rate of 900%. Get out of here! That's nuts! As a point of comparison, there are on the order of 10,000 Windows PC apps listed on Microsoft's Windows7 compatibility website. Researchers predict at least 300,000 iPhone apps by the end of 2010, many of the new ones coming from well-known business kings, the famous (ie; T-Pain app), kick-ass consumer brands, and the never-ending battle to create the coolest games.
I love apps. I am still technically new to the iPhone, and am constantly in amazement of the cool things you can do with apps. My first week in the app game, I had every FREE app you could ask for, and was already waist-deep in the non-FREE app store. It's fascinating. It took me about a month to get a hold of myself, and stop downloading/purchasing every ruhtard this-and-that app. I have recently cleaned some out, reduced it down to 5 pages of apps, and luckily figured out how to organize them when I synch with my iTunes. Here are my apps, from the basics to the
hottness, and what I think about 'em.
On my first page of apps, I tried to keep it down to the bare necessities;
-Text; of course, (we have discussed before. Uber Important)
-iCalendar, photos/camera (now also video camera with iPhone 3GS), so simple to snap a quick photo, and has great resolution.
-MAPS! LOVE! I use my this in place of my Garmin now. 4 stars!
-Contacts are good to have handy, easy to jump to specifics.
-Clock = my alarm clock. very useful, just not loud enough.
-Notes, I am always thinking of random ideas, thoughts, songs to download, blogs to write, so I jot them in my notes. When I synch it automatically sends them to my e-mail so I won't ever lose them.
-Facebook, duh. Use it on the reg.
-Bank of America. Kicks ass. Know your financial status pronto.
-Shazam = legit, as discussed earlier
-Loopt = a creepy app where you can pinpoint friends' locations.
-Horoscopes, my eerily accurate horoscope app, on the daily.
-Texts From Last Night/ FML is always a pick-me-up.
-Last but not least, Flood-It!, the greatest game ever. I am legendary. 74% winning average. thankyou.
My 2nd page of apps contains my "serious" apps;
-Settings; technically a necessity app, but not needed that often.
-Calculator, p.s. yes, your iPhone calc has the same functioning capabilities of a calculus-level-graphing calculator
-Handy Level, F yes, I'll take that. baller.
-Compass, Katt Williams taught m
e that every pimp needs a compass.
-Voice memo, can't say I've really used that much....
-Weather stations, so easy and user-friendly
-Stocks, not lately
-News, movies, google = endless information
-Days until is a countdown app, good for vacay countdowns :)
-Magic 8-Ball, you know the drill
-Bubble wrap, just like it sounds, yet somehow, still oddly incredibly entertaining.
App Page 3 is apps that are "things to do" or "activity" apps;
-I have my app and iTunes stores, where I can purchase any apps o
r downloads
-Youtube and Pandora, sure u know 'em...
-Bump and Mover - cool apps where you can bump phones with a friend to share pics, contact info, etc. Very cool.
-A handy to-do list that I use for bill and event reminders
-Spin Art = kick ass, so fun and you can create cute backgrounds worth all .99
-Colorsplash is a cool app for photo-editing, seems like you can really do some cool shit with it if you try to learn, but I paid 5.99 for it, and haven't devoted more than a minute.
-Ransom is a fun app, you can take pictures and place text on them. Good for ransom notes and Caller ID.
-T-Pain App = so fun! Here you can record yourself doing T-Pain songs with that freaky voice changer effect. Can plug your phone up to your car speakers and turn your car into a recording studio. Great for road trips!
-IQ Test, did it once or twice, but always a fave of people who want to "look at my apps"
-Big Oven/Urban Spoon = Recipe/Restaurant Locators
-Wallpaper is one of my top rated. On this app, I can create thousands of personalized backgrounds, with freakin cute options. I made dozens and e-mailed to friends to use :)
- aaaaaaaand.... Atomic Fart app, tons of fart simulations, dont use it much, but everyone has it, one day it could be used to make a funny situation, who knows, it was free, whatev.
My 4th and 5th pages of apps are all games that I enjoy;
-This is commonly what I do when I have stayed up so late that I can't see straight, the TV is off, computer put away, and I still need something "to do". Big fan of some Black Jack, and a lifetime Bejeweled fan.
-Tap Tap revolution is pretty fun. It's like Guitar Hero, but requires noise, so not good when trying to be discreet. Labyrinth is a cool one to play, it's really endless, and to each his own.
MTV'S "JERSEY SLORES"
HOE. LEE. COW! I couldn't possibly say enough about my new LOVE for the show, Jersey Shore, on MTV. It is freaking outrageous! Imagine a hair gel and silicon filled Real World House, mixed with a retard farm and a strip club. Trashy Television at its' greatest. I can't get enough. Honestly, I could type about it for hours, when really you should just go and watch the first episode in entirety 2-3 times. 2nd episode drops this Thursday. The preview shows Snickers, a teacup trash-ball, getting KO'd by a dude! Looks pretty dramatastic. It's definitely gonna get filthy, creepy and weird. Grab your man gel, Snickers & slut suits, and get ready to fist pump your creatine across Jersey.
HOW did I not invent this!?! Part II: Silverware Where?
Doing the dishes SUCKS!!! I hate doing them. period. I am kind of a freak about washing my dishes, in the sense that I prefer for my dishes to be ultra super freaky clean before I use them. I am a big fan of the steamy strong pre-scrub, during which I do my best to remove ALL traces of dirtiness. I HATE it when people put dishes in the dishwasher with food still on them. Get out of here, sick-stores.
The DISHWASHER. What a freaking out of control machine. Amazing. I lived a short period of time without one, Cassie I know you feel me right here, it was absolutely AWFUL! I never really felt comfortable with hand-washed, dishrag-touched, rack-dried dishes. Barf. Thankyou for the dishwasher, William Howard Livens!
Now, onto my radical discovery.... About a year ago, I was putting away some freshly clean dishes as a friend looked on in my kitchen. Watching me rummage through the silverware caddy, the friend asked why I didn't place the silverware in sections accordingly...... it hit me like a freight train! You're exactly right! Why don't I do that? More importantly, how have I gone 24 years without knowing that? Why don't my parents do that, teach me that? WTF!?! It seems so obvious, yet never crossed my "intellectual" mind. UGH! Anyways, now I strategically place my silverware in the dishwasher the RIGHT WAY! It's faster, easier, and it's fun.
Facebook is the Devil, but I love it!
Before I state my opinion on Facebook, let me go ahead and confirm that I am an AVID user. Of facebook. I enjoy creeping on people for hours a day just as much as the next guy, but it really is a horrible thing. But I love it. This could become an entire book over facebook; the Creepy McCreepertons stalking, the brain-washing farm games, the unlimited picture viewing of friends, friends of friends, and even strangers, the over-sharing, stupid quizzes, the wave of old 'foags jumpin' on the FB wagon, the repetitively annoying status updates, the perpetual in-and-out-of-relationshipers, under-cover-potential-employer-stalkage, the late-night lash-outs, the unwarranted chat sessions, living in fear of what you drunk-status-updated last night, it could go on for years.
Yet, I STILL LOVE FACEBOOK. If it were gone, I would die. I have pictures tagged of me all the way back to highschool, 6-7 years ago!!! I would like to think that facebook will always be something to look at, and eventually become a virtual timeline of your life. Not that I will still update my status, and post questionably humorous photos, videos and news stories when I am 50, but I still think it would be cool to check it out maybe...? just sayin...
So this brings me to my point, I'm hearing all this drama about facebook supposedly questioning membership fees for the future. Though I will be pissed off, and hate having to pay it, (notice how I said having to pay it), you bet your sweet ass I will be typin' in them CC digits. So will everyone else. Maybe not the old 'foags, soooooo..... awesome! I am tired of having to monitor my "older" friends, and what they can and cannot discover about my lifestyle through my facebook. PROPS to the facebook dude, he is about to BANK!
Welcome to the Future! Part I
It seems as though the West Texas Windmill Farm is soon to be outshined as the latest and greatest in wind-energy. New prototypes are nuts! Check out this article.
Ruining Christmas
I heard a comical story the other day. A friend of mine is working at a mail/shipment store over the busy holidays. Being smart, and pretty tech-friendly, this friend has found himself frequently having to assist other employees. One in particular is an older woman, who is understandably slow on the computer. She often looks back to him for support when stuck in the delivery system. He stands back and watches her attempt to enter customer information, wondering how bad she is botching it. I couldn't help but laugh hysterically as he told this story, rantin' and ravin' about how many Christmas Presents this lady has probably sent to Budapest. She has the potential to crush families in the tap of a 4.... let's just hope none of my 7 readers have shipped anything from this particular business.
Can I marry my iPhone? Part II: Shazam
OB-SESSED! Shazam is an iPhone app with which you can submit a small segment of any song, and then the app will respond with the track information, as well as easy links to sample or purchase the tune. What a great idea!
I find myself wanting to know the name/artist of a song many times a day! I've noticed that my car only displays this information when I am in big cities, so having Shazam has really come in handy for me in the car. It has also come in handy when at a bar, or place where I randomly hear a good one. I rack up a list of songs, purchase the ones I have to have immediately, and save the rest for when I am downloading one night. So convenient!
Shazam is one of the most popular apps, and has recently been spotlighted in global news for its' rapidly increasing popularity. Strongly recommended.
Mullet Schmullet
Mullets rock, but that's not the only sweet name for this iconic hair style. Try some of these out the next time you come across one.
-Ape Drape
-Kentucky Waterfall
-Schlong (Short-Long)
-Mississippi Mud Flap
-Doggy Door
-Missouri Compromise
-10/90
-Neck Blanket
-Achey Breaky Bad Mistakey
True Life; I got 3 of those directly quoted from Billy Ray Cyrus himself. (inspiration)
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