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)
The best part about my day is....
well, unfortunately the REAL best part of my day is improper for the public eye, soooo... after work when I have the REAL best part of my day, the NEXT best part of my day is watching ELLEN!!! She absolutely rocks my face off. She is the funniest person in the world! I used to tie her right up there with legend, Pimp, and genius, Katt Williams, but with Ellen's new season on the scene, she has most surely surpassed Sir Shorty Giggles. (damn thats kindof a tongue-twister, so I'm gonna leave it :)
Ellen can brighten ANY of my days. I catch myself listening to it from my desk at work (we have it on in the lobby in the mornings). I try not to pay attention so that I can enjoy it in full once I get home. I sit and I laugh hysterically at my television for 45 minutes(DVR)! She is so witty, and has such a positive perspective on everything! LOVE!
Check out some of my favorite Ellen moments!
#4: Ellen's Magic Microphone. Actually, this should be ranked higher.
HOW did I not invent this!?! Part I: Taco
Do you like tacos? Of course you do, but you HATE loading them up, right? It's so ridiculous! You have to hold it with one hand, while filling it with the other. Even if you get the thing loaded up just right, you put in on your plate and it spills out everywhere... UGH!!! Well people, there is now a solution. THE FLAT-BOTTOMED TACO SHELL. How did someone just now think of the flat-bottomed taco shell!?! How did IIIIIIIIIIIII not think of this!?! People have even labored over making taco-holders without that light-bulb going off. BRAVO to the flat-bottomed taco shell pioneer! Go get some people, they're a real blast.
Farmvile Schmarmville
Okay people, this is getting ridiculous. These 3rd grade facebook games have taken hold over thousands, including my mother, and I can't take it anymore!!!
***First off; if you play these games at work, THIS DOES NOT PERTAIN TO YOU! For you gamers, I am jealous that you have a job in which you have enough free time to play on the internet. Mad Props.
For those of you who spend time at home, at night, on the weekends and endless hours playing ruhtard facebook games... GET A LIFE!!! Do you rush home to harvest your squash crop? Did you have a rumble in the alley with your Mafia? Can you sleep better knowing which Sex and the City character you are most like? Do you really think that facebook can accurately calculate when you will get married? Your Happy Aquarium is so full, but I could care less! You are a GEEK FACTORY!
My mom's wall is covered in tons of random things about ducks on her farm and reaching 40 million points in Bejeweled. It's crazy! This also means that everyone who is friends with her gets a daily flood of her game invitations and a Farm Day recap. Nobody wants to see that. Go into your settings and de-activate some stuff, please.
Do not ask people in public if they will join your Mafia, or be your neighboring farmer. The answer is NO. How can it be so important that you are thinking about recruiting and building your little empire even when you're not doing it? Think more about the things you are missing out on, losers. Go outside. Draw a picture. Play with your dog. Read a book. Google something.
***First off; if you play these games at work, THIS DOES NOT PERTAIN TO YOU! For you gamers, I am jealous that you have a job in which you have enough free time to play on the internet. Mad Props.
For those of you who spend time at home, at night, on the weekends and endless hours playing ruhtard facebook games... GET A LIFE!!! Do you rush home to harvest your squash crop? Did you have a rumble in the alley with your Mafia? Can you sleep better knowing which Sex and the City character you are most like? Do you really think that facebook can accurately calculate when you will get married? Your Happy Aquarium is so full, but I could care less! You are a GEEK FACTORY!
My mom's wall is covered in tons of random things about ducks on her farm and reaching 40 million points in Bejeweled. It's crazy! This also means that everyone who is friends with her gets a daily flood of her game invitations and a Farm Day recap. Nobody wants to see that. Go into your settings and de-activate some stuff, please.
Do not ask people in public if they will join your Mafia, or be your neighboring farmer. The answer is NO. How can it be so important that you are thinking about recruiting and building your little empire even when you're not doing it? Think more about the things you are missing out on, losers. Go outside. Draw a picture. Play with your dog. Read a book. Google something.
Drunkest Guy I Have EVER Seen!
Click here to giggle your guts out!
It gets best at around a minute, so be patient.
It gets best at around a minute, so be patient.
Bizzy Body
I was running today, and dragging ass might I add, when the song, "Bizzy Body" came on. I freakin love that song! When it comes on it usually reminds me of my friend KG and how she loves the song as well. She has a little ghetto flava like me, so we have similar music tastes. The next thing that comes to mind is dancing, which is a fave of mine... but I never thought the song would make me want to run. For some reason today, it kicked my tail right into gear. I was bookin it! The beat was going perfectly with my footwork, and that's a big issue I have with my work-out playlist. Once I realized how the jam had boosted me, I was elated! I have a whole new love for Bizzy Body by Paul Wall.
Now, for the second part of this posting, I was planning on adding a link to the song, so that you could go listen to it. But THEN... I found THIS. Hah! I don't understand it, but whatever rides her river floats her boat I guess.
Now, for the second part of this posting, I was planning on adding a link to the song, so that you could go listen to it. But THEN... I found THIS. Hah! I don't understand it, but whatever rides her river floats her boat I guess.
Did you play with Pogs when you were a kid? Elementary age? I know that everyone from MY school would know what I'm talking about, but not all do. These are Pogs; small, circular pieces of cardboard used for a game we called, "Playing Pogs" ha! clever.... Anyways, I don't think it was really all that fun, but it killed the time at recess, and knowing me, I probably wanted to do it because all the boys were doing it.
I remember having a giant green plastic case that held all of my Pogs. Can you imagine all the kids carrying these around school and on the bus? Everyone wanted to have the coolest Pogs. You could buy them at random stores, but there was a particular Pog Spot that I frequented. It was a comic book store by the bowling alley, and I would make my Grandpa, some of you know him as Stan the Man, take me there after school to make sure I got the latest Pogs. He even got me a Pog Factory once. Pogs came in Happy Meals at one point, this is why I know I'm not the only person who remembers playing. Happy Meal Pogs were terrible quality, though... the kind you barter with the next day at school. Being my Artsy-Fartsy self, I became fond of buying packages of plain colored Pogs and creating masterpieces on them. I could put "David" on a Pog, in a super-cool font of course, make it the same colors of whatever football team he liked, and trade it for 5 Pogs that I wanted. Deep into the Pog Game, ya feel me?Pogs were not only collectibles, they were soldiers.... soldiers in a battle between a couple of 3rd graders. The more = The better, and a Big victory could pick you up a whole new set of Pogs like that! Like soldiers need their King, Pogs need a Slammer. Each player had to have a "Slammer". This was a bigger, thicker, plastic Pog that was used to Slam stacks of Pogs.
Click Here to see a demo Pog game.
Pogs Rock, though, honestly. I am totally going to search for mine when I go home for Thanksgiving.
Can I marry my iPhone? Part I: Text it
I have a kick ass phone. The iPhone. It's the greatest companion a person could ever have. Prior to having my beautiful babyjesus of a "phone", I was with Sprint. I was always pretty satisfied, until you babe ;). Sprint was prevalent in Lubbock, had good service out in the the surrounding areas, and everyone had it. (less Mom on your ass about minutes. deal.) Sprint always had pretty sweet phones too, and I always made sure to stay on top of my cell-game. Remember the Nokia with Snake, do you even have to ask how many sweet covers I had?The #1 thing I do on my phone is communicate with others through text. I have always done a lot of texting, but never any more than I have actually talked on the phone. Remember having to hit the "7" three times to get to "r"? That was terrible. I was pretty bad ass at it, but the keyboard brought me to a whole new realm. Once those keyboards came out, it was over! My lightning thumbs crank out approximately 60 WPM. For the past few years I was in a relationship with the Palm Treo. GREAT keyboard. *Side note; If you still have less than 26 buttons on your phone, I hope you are more than 62 years old.
Technological advances in this new form of communication exchange we like to call "texting" or "SMS" (Short Message Service) have come a long way! One of my faves is the "conversation" feature. This is when phones create a sort of "chat" between you and each of the people you are texting. Much cooler than the old-shool form of text logging.
In all my years of super sonic texting, I have never really been too big on the "cliche" texting. This is texting that they make fun of on phone commercials, where the daughter is like, "GFT on the BFF with a TTYN". I don't really do that. My mom tried so hard to "cliche" text when my sister first showed her the "texting ropes", it was awful. I will typically use the letter "u" instead of "you", and a few others but nothing like "G2G2MBFHSYL".**Side note; I have used WAY too many quotation marks today.
Now with my job, I text quite a bit. Both of my bosses stay very busy, and texting is the easiest way to get to them if they are in a meeting, or on a conference call. I am usually sending them quick questions or letting them know about important issues, so I like to try and sound professional. Lately, I have been looking back on "conversations" and noticing that some of the things that I send in texts are absolute jibberish. Ughhhh! What a ruhtard I must sound like! This maddening occurrence is what has boiled my blood enough to blog 1,000 words on this topic today, PREDICTIVE TEXTING.
I like it SOMETIMES, but honestly think I could live without it. The ability to lean on your phone for catching grammatical errors is just another way the human population is growing lazier. Don't get me wrong... I LOVE LAZINESS AND ANY ATTEMPT TO MAKE THINGS EASIER... I'm just saying that by trusting your phone to catch your mistakes, you're paying less attention to what you are sending in your messages. And once it's sent, it's sent. "Heyyy Stranger" has transformed into "Getty Stranger" on me. Charming, right? My "me" turns into "mr" 9 out of 10 times, and it drives me Bat Shit CRAZY!
The whole incident that caused me to write this today was the case of the "Tag-Along" letter "g". On most words that end in "ing" predictive texting will prompt you for the full word before you hit the "n". Geez, again with the quotation marks. Today I was typing something about driving, asking, and jammin. My phone kept attaching the "g" onto jammin, when I clearly didn't want it! Wouldn't it sound super dorky if I said I was jamminG some music rather than jammin'. Ha! Weird thought that crossed my brain, and led me to creating this iPhone blog series. Weird. I Love it.
Back in the game... ACL 2009
Well, in my first week of "blogging", I only made it a few days before I went and lost my soul at ACL. Don't let that statement mislead you, it was one of the GREATEST weekends of my life, by far the best Festival! Needless to say, it took me a while to get back in the swing of things... and unfortunately, this "blogging" is not yet on the top of my list. So, here I am. I know my 2 followers, and my mom have been dying to see my latest entry. Ha! (joke)
I will start with continuing my ACL highlights...
Day 1: Began with a freakin BANG! We arrived around 4, after a half-ish day of work, to catch PHOENIX! I'm kind of obsessed with them right now. I had only dabbled in their stuff before ACL, but now have every single song of theirs on my phone. No good pics or anything, but here are some of my faves for tasting: (***mom,here you can click on the songs ;)
If I Ever Feel Better
Lisztomania
1901
Lasso
Thievery Corporation, a little Reckless Kelly, a 5-gallon bag of Kettle Corn, accompanying Ryan on all 500 of her bathroom trips, a little wine, and we were finally at the show that I had gone into ACL wanting to see the most... KINGS OF LEON! I love them, old AND new. I'm sad to say, that I was kinda bummed about their show. I was exhausted, I had a headache, and we could barely hear them! I swear it was the most quiet concert I have ever been to. Such a shame. Glad I got to see them, but kinda wish I would have caught some of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs because they are spectacular as well.
...and on the way home...
Citizen Cope = Puts the C in Cool = Super Hott = AMAZING music = I got a T-shirt = I met him! Ha! Soooo after the first night, Friday, which would also be the most low-key of all 3, Ryan and I were embarking on our long journey down Barton Springs back to our FAB parking spot at Mandy's apt... run on sentence... and as I walk past the Velaro filling station, I see Citizen Cope standing under the flood light like Jesus right in front of my face. People were not really catching on, but I immediately graB Ryan and guide her toward the light. He was adorb! He wouldn't go for a pic because "flash hurts his eyes", but he did let us snap one from an iPhone. Flood my basement.
Day 2: There really aren't words to describe just how fun it really was. But if I had to pick only a few, MUD would most definitely be one of them! ACL pumped $2.3 million dollars worth of sod into Zilker Park in order to prepare for the festival. As i said earlier, it was Heaven! ...until it poured rain... The beautifully green rolling hills soon became vast wet lands filled with mud, which we have come to find out was "Dillo Dirt". Disgusting. Google it. Saturday had an amazing line-up; Citizen Cope, Dave Matthews Band, and Ghostland Observatory. It was AMAZING!!! Singing, dancing, drinking, etc. in the rain was a blast! Ryan and I were on another level! Saturday, we luckily met up with some of my friends from Texas Tech, and made an anti-seperation-pact from the beginning! After singing my soul away (in the pouring rain, it was like a love story) for Citizen Cope, we pretty much had every intention of planting our feet and waiting for Dave. But it's hard to stay planted in several inches of mud. Sad to say that I missed Flogging Molly during Citizen Cope, I walked (slip-n-slided) over to AMD Stage to pretend like I caught the last of it. This was an amusing time period in our day where Ryan, Thomas, Weston, Turner and I had a great time. With a by-period in our schedule of Shows, we met a CRAZY Ginger-Hippie and chatted him up for a while. We will call him "Carrot-top". (I'm not even gonna go into the abundance of Gingers that were at ACL. Another topic) Anyways... I caught a little Mos Def, which was cool. I used to love watching him on Russell Simmons' Poetry Hour. Ha! Don't lie!
Then there was a period when we were passing by a stage that I never even paid attention to, and the Zac Brown Band was playing! I freaked out for many reasons; 1.I have just recently been OBSESSED with their song, "Whatever It Is". 2.You can surely find it in my Top 25 Most Played, so it was great to hear it in a new light. and 3.I was not expecting to hear any country-radio-hits at ACL. I LOVE Country Music! I can only jam it at my desk, or when I'm in the car alone because most of my friends are not fond of it. BUT, on that day, standing there barefoot in the mud, not a care in the world, and singing every lyric to a cheesy Country love song that all my friends HATE when I play, I had an overwhelming sense of pride for my Country-Music-Loving-Roots. Too much? haha! Click here, listen to the song, it goes pretty hard!
Sound Tribe Sector 9 = Great music, and I'm pretty sure I enjoyed their show....
So anyways, you'll have to understand that Day 2 gets a little hairy from here on out. Being in the rain for 8 straight hours took a toll, and by the time we made our way up towards the front of Dave, we were beat! I stood in awe, sang and did what people do at Dave concerts, and worried about Ryan's where-abouts. Weston and I got antsy, so we went to catch the end of Ghostland = UNREAL show, (we just saw them at the River like 2 months ago, but the lasers were still indescribable)... AND we needed to locate Ryan before leaving for the night.
...and on the way home...
Ryan, Weston and I were journeying back to the car, covered in mud, looking for Ali, buying hippie purses and light sabres, and bracelets when we came across a Laser-Light-Dance-Party behind a Taco Van stationed on the side of Barton Springs. It was freaking awesome. We were in there all alone, dancing our faces off for a good 30 minutes when in walked.....
The BLUE MAN! He was awesome. This picture doesn't really do his outfit justice because of the flash. In the dark, he was a neon blue dancing ball of fire! Loved him! Soon there was atleast 25 people dancing behind the Taco Van. It was pretty ridiculous. When we snapped out of it, and realized that the longer we stayed and danced, the more cars we would wait behind for hours in traffic, we bounced. I made everyone go inside the bathrooms at some burger joint and wash their legs off before they got in my car. Weston was not happy about this leg-lifting activity, so after some arguing, we ended up taking out my floor mats, and diving in. At this point I had no idea that we were all covered in "Dillo Dirt". Still.... a GREAT day!More to come about ACL Day #3... my FAVORITE day :)
The Real World
my "That 70's show-smoking in the garage-but every time you turned it was just me again" themed Real World try-out tape was so awesome... i just don't understand... what's sad, is next year I will be too old haha! time to let this boat sail i guess. Sorry, mom
OOohhh OOhh OOhh I'm Still Alive!!!!
Well, I made it through ACL weekend alive! I cannot even begin to explain how amazing it was. Maybe in a Blog only visible to a certain few, but not here, not now, not today. haha. I saw so many great shows in 3 days! Friday was awesome because there was NO rain! The weather was perfect and the $2.3 million dollars worth of grass felt like Heaven on my feet. Ryan and I spent the whole weekend together which was awesome... but on Friday it was just us two flying solo! we showed up to catch Phoenix = awesome, and then went on to see thievery and Kings of Leon. I wasn't partying as hard as I should have on Friday, due to a mysterious circumstance, but it was still a great time! Ryan and I think that there must have been speaker issues, because we could NOT hear them at all! I was sad, but the next two days made up for it to the MAX!!!
I have sooo much more to share about the rest of my ACL experience, but I am going to wait until I can get the rest of the pics from Ryan. Her camera is WATERPROOF, and it survived the monsoon. More to come :)
Day #2 of Ze Blogging....
well holy horses! today has been pretty crazy. I had a long day of working, and now I am laying in bed, in pain, my ribs and back are jacked up! Nothing a little bed-chief and some Ellen can't fix though! Work was good today. I love days when I am running around SO busy that before I look up, it's time to go home! I am going to go in early in the morning so I can take the second half of my day off for ACL!!! too excited for words right now. Anyways, I am gonna keep today's blog short, but intriguing.
I have a group of pondries that are wonderful conversation pieces. Fun to bust out at a party, ask your grandpa, and also good for breaking tension in sticky situation. Let's see what you think...
- Why do you PARK in a DRIVEway, but DRIVE on a PARKway?
- Why does a CAR carry a SHIPment, yet a SHIP carries CARgo?
-Why is there even an Eject
button on the remote, if you
have to get up, walk over there,
and get that movie out anyways?
riddle me this.
-Why does 7-11 even
bother putting locks
on their doors, if
they are open 24/7?
That's all for now. Marinate.
See you tomorrow from ACL!!! I am gonna try to figure out how to post pics from an iPhone, but if not... tomorrow night!
Much Love.
What Blog?
Okay, sooo it has taken me quite a long time to finally get this crack-a-lackin... but here it goes... TOP TEN reasons that I am starting a blog;
1. Multiple times a day, I catch myself saying, "I should remember this!" or "I should write that down." This blog will be my sketch book/journal/notepad/memo/idea book/flat surface. Ha.
2. I think I am a pretty intelligent person. Not all of my friends would agree with that, but my mom definitely would, and I bet I could gather up a few others. None the less, I say this because I think I have finally figured out the problem here. These incredibly intelligent thoughts that run through my mind ARE legitimate! I just have a problem conveying them. So, in an attempt to solidify my confidence, I am going to try explaining my theories in text.
3. I will continue to post updates on my GINGER INVASION investigation.
4. Most forwards suck, but some are worth sharing! Luckily, my mom is a fan of the later of the two, and she usually gives me a giggle a day. Sometimes she even sends me some OHMYGODIMATWORKICANTHITTHATXFASTENOUGH e-mails. Don't worry, I'll put warnings on those :)
4. So I can feel cool when I say, "Check out my Blog" Tryin' to jump on that Technology Train.
5. Family #1: After 23 years in Lubbock, I have moved to Austin. Greatest decision I have ever made, next to picking out that Grand Champ Hamp from the litter. Leaving my family behind after all that time was so incredibly hard, and still is. With this blog, I can connect with them and show them what I am up to. Wait, is that a good idea?
6. Family #2:The friends that I grew up with are basically my sisters and brothers. Besties that I would die for, and boys that I'd kill for. It has been really hard for me to see how things are still going on without me back at home. BUT, I want them all to see how much FUN I am having here so they will come visit me.
7. Family #3: Moving to a new city is scary as shit. By some miracle, my experience with moving cities (for the first time in my life, aside from a Summer internship in Dallas where I came home every weekend) has been amazing! I am super lucky to have a large group of friends that I LOVE! We all like to party, and some of them even think I am funny. We have way too many crazy times that need to be documented. I will do that.
8. Saw a link to this chick's blog on her facebook. Clicked it. Cute. Cool. Copy.
9. Remember when you were young and writing a paper could be about anything you wanted? I know, I know, when you hear writing a paper, you cringe, but that is only because college has ruined your view of writing. *I just had an idea for a blog about all the things college can change in a person.* Where was I? OH! Writing about whatever you want is fun.
10. Some YOU TUBE videos are spectacular enough to promote.
I think I could do more, but Dave just showed up and I've already ignored him for almost an hour. So, great first day on the blog! Cool.
1. Multiple times a day, I catch myself saying, "I should remember this!" or "I should write that down." This blog will be my sketch book/journal/notepad/memo/idea book/flat surface. Ha.
2. I think I am a pretty intelligent person. Not all of my friends would agree with that, but my mom definitely would, and I bet I could gather up a few others. None the less, I say this because I think I have finally figured out the problem here. These incredibly intelligent thoughts that run through my mind ARE legitimate! I just have a problem conveying them. So, in an attempt to solidify my confidence, I am going to try explaining my theories in text.
3. I will continue to post updates on my GINGER INVASION investigation.
4. Most forwards suck, but some are worth sharing! Luckily, my mom is a fan of the later of the two, and she usually gives me a giggle a day. Sometimes she even sends me some OHMYGODIMATWORKICANTHITTHATXFASTENOUGH e-mails. Don't worry, I'll put warnings on those :)
4. So I can feel cool when I say, "Check out my Blog" Tryin' to jump on that Technology Train.
5. Family #1: After 23 years in Lubbock, I have moved to Austin. Greatest decision I have ever made, next to picking out that Grand Champ Hamp from the litter. Leaving my family behind after all that time was so incredibly hard, and still is. With this blog, I can connect with them and show them what I am up to. Wait, is that a good idea?
6. Family #2:The friends that I grew up with are basically my sisters and brothers. Besties that I would die for, and boys that I'd kill for. It has been really hard for me to see how things are still going on without me back at home. BUT, I want them all to see how much FUN I am having here so they will come visit me.
7. Family #3: Moving to a new city is scary as shit. By some miracle, my experience with moving cities (for the first time in my life, aside from a Summer internship in Dallas where I came home every weekend) has been amazing! I am super lucky to have a large group of friends that I LOVE! We all like to party, and some of them even think I am funny. We have way too many crazy times that need to be documented. I will do that.
8. Saw a link to this chick's blog on her facebook. Clicked it. Cute. Cool. Copy.
9. Remember when you were young and writing a paper could be about anything you wanted? I know, I know, when you hear writing a paper, you cringe, but that is only because college has ruined your view of writing. *I just had an idea for a blog about all the things college can change in a person.* Where was I? OH! Writing about whatever you want is fun.
10. Some YOU TUBE videos are spectacular enough to promote.
I think I could do more, but Dave just showed up and I've already ignored him for almost an hour. So, great first day on the blog! Cool.
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