Showing posts with label Fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fun. Show all posts

Friday, April 30, 2010

Mischief Maker


Tax day came and went without a hitch.  When I say "without a hitch", I mean, I didn't do them, my dad did and, also, because I had my Middle Sister to help get me through it.  She's the best...so much that I went and bought all of her kind at Target, the only place I can find her round these them parts. I'm a personal fan of Mischief Maker, the Cabernet.  They have several variety of wines and you can even go to the website and take a quiz to see which one you are most like. Just look at her, she's the sister I wish I had!  I can't help that I want to relax with her every night.  If Huck is lucky, he may just end up with a threesome.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Four Square

Want to play a new game? Want to be more connected to your friends? Well, then grab your ball and pick a square. FourSquare is a new social broadcasting application that allows you to find your friends, explore the city while earning points and badges along the way. Huh? you say? Look, go check out their site. Apply it to your iPhone or Blackberry and everywhere you go just check in. You earn points and get super cool badges as you check in. You can even become "mayor" of a location if you've been there the most. I'm the mayor of 10 locations, bitches, and I don't plan to be overtaken! I'm all over the place! Some venues have set up special discounts for those that are mayors or have accumulated "points." It's a fun tool to let people know of great venues (perhaps) for Happy Hour, to let them know where you currently are so they can meet up with you, or great places to go when you're on vacation or just out and about in your own city. The app also provides you a map for all of those who get lost or refuse to stop and ask for directions, ahem, men???? So download it and add me as your friend. As you can see, I just got started but I've already unlocked several badges and trying to figure out how to unlock more while exploring and meeting new friends. I'm 2 steps ahead of you and laughing the whole way. So run and catch up! There are only about 200,000 participants so far, so as you can see, it's still brand new. Here are a lot of the badges that you can unlock:

Newbie...First check-in

Adventurer...10 check-ins to unique venues

Explorer...25 check-ins to unique venues

Superstar...50 check-ins to unique venues

Bender...Checking in 4 nights in a row

Crunked...Checking in to four or more venues in one night (after 6pm)

Local...Checking in at the same venue 3 times in 1 week

Super User...Checking in 30 times in one month

Player Please...Checking in with three members of the opposite sex

School Night...Checking in after 3am on a school night

Don't Stop Believin'...Checking in 3 times to venues tagged "karaoke"

Gym Rat...Checking in 10 times to venues tagged 'gym' in 30 days.
Overshare...10 or more check ins in 12 hours

Animal House..."Off the Wagon appreciates your business. COLLEGE!" (This may be an NYC-specific badge.)

Webby..."A wise microcelebrity once said: 'I won a Webby' is the new 'I have a website.' You may not have be named King or Queen tonight, but please accept this Webby as a token of just how special we think you are."

Douchebag...Check in to venue(s) tagged "douchebag".

Photogenic...Checking in at three places with a photo booth

Ziggy's Wagon..."Waffles and tacos and dumplings and BBQ and... looks like you've found 3 of your city's legendary food trucks. Enjoy!"

16 Candles..."Treat yourself to another cupcake – that’s 5 birthday shout outs from you!"

Babysitter..."Forget those “Bender” and “Crunked” badges – you’ve conquered the playground circuit!"

BFF..."♫ The only one for me is you, and you for me ♫ 10 check ins togeeetthhherrrr! ♫"

Engaged..."I got engaged on foursquare and here’s the badge to prove it."

Entourage..."Look at you, all checking-in with 10 of your friends in tow! Can you be any more popular?"I’m on a boat! ..."♫ This ain’t Seaworld, this is as real as it gets / I’m on a boat, MF’er, don’t you ever forget! ♫"

JetSetter..."Hopping around the world one airport at a time… congrats on your 5th airport check in and safe travels!"

Jobs..."3 Apple Store check ins! Show this badge to the hipster at the Genius Bar to redeem your new Apple Hoverboard! (… or not)"

Pizzaiolo..."This badge is reserved only for the true pizza connoisseur: slices from 20 different pizza places. Well done!"

Road Warrior..."You’re making the world a mappier place one check in at a time!"

Super Mayor..."A special shout out for holding down 10 mayorships at once!"

Swarm..."50+ people are also checked-in here – it’s a foursquare flashmob!"

Warhol..."That sure is a nice collection of art gallery check ins (10 different galleries!)"

Zoetrope..."That brings you to 10 movie theater check ins! Now, can you pick us up a large popcorn while you’re up?"

Gossip Girl...I have no explanation for this one.



Twitter, yes, I Twitter so shut your face, defines it as:

Four·square n. a way to check-in and share your location.

There are city specific badges and also convention show specific badges. As this application takes off, there will be a lot more badges. Perhaps, eventually, you can make up your own badge for special events or your place of employment, etc. If you have some ideas for new badges or just some cool ideas, don't hesitate to pass on the information to the Foursquare guys, Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvaduri.

According to Mashable the new Blackberry app has launched joining iPhone and Android users.

So jump on the bandwagon and tell everyone you were cool before they knew it was cool to be cool. Your serve!
T

Monday, November 9, 2009

Calmness In Our Lives

I am passing this on to you because it definitely works and we could all use a little more calmness in our lives. By following simple advice heard on the Oprah show, you too can find inner peace. Dr. Oz proclaimed, 'The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started and have never finished.'
Sooooo, I looked around my house to see all the things I started and hadn't finished, and before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a bottle of White Zinfandel, a bottle of Tequila, a package of Oreos, the remainder of my old Prozac prescription, the rest of the cheesecake, some Doritos, and a box of chocolates. You have no idea how freaking good I feel right now.


This gave me a good hearty laugh as my beautiful friend, Alissa G., passed it on to me early this morning. Thank you for putting a smile on my face this Monday.

T

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Lunch

ON our way to Daniel’s with our coworkers Larry and I had the following conversation:

Me: OK Larry, What’s our safe word going to be?
Larry: Safe Word? I didn’t know it was THAT kind of lunch.
Me: It’s not, well, you never know. I was looking for a safe word to get us out of there if we need to.
Larry: Do you think it’s going to be that bad? Let’s not use something obvious.
Me: So Fuck you, mother fucker is out?
Larry: I think you should have 3 expletives together.
Me: How about Fuckity Fuck Fuck?
Larry: Is Fuckity a real word or one of your Texas concoctions?
Me: Shut up, Larry, it works.
Larry: I can’t wait for you to use it.

This is how we do it from day to day. You have to make the most of what you got. This lunch went unhitched and actually it was kind of boring. I should have pretended I had Tourette's and used 3 expletives...next time.

T

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Getting Away With It

It's a little-known fact that Good Girls are only good because they know how to get away with being bad. They have their shiny halo's on display for the whole world to see and they walk down the street in their diamond slippers never stepping on a crack in the pavement.
No one is watching when a Good Girl skips down a side alley and mugs a baby for candy. How do they get away with it? Here's the secret.


Deny Everything


I'm starting with the last resort, because when it comes down to it this is the Good Girl's most powerful weapon against everyone else. It's their word against yours.
A Good Girl simply flat-out refuses to admit they were in any way, shape or form involved in any evil deeds.
“Of course I didn't do it, I would never do something like that!” is a perfectly plausible alibi for a Good Girl, who is always presumed innocent even when proven guilty.
A Good Girl could get caught with her hand in the cookie jar and a simple “Freddy tricked me” will suffice, while poor Freddy cops the blame.


Admit to Small Faults


In direct contradiction to the “deny everything” technique comes this little crafty piece of sly fault avoidance from the Good Girl's rule book.
A Good Girl bashfully admits to small, human errors … like barely audible burps after a delicious meal, usually orchestrated with a polite hand-over-the-mouth action and a timid “excuse me” which everyone finds delightfully adorable.
Other minor mishaps can be admitted to, such as the proverbial spilt milk, as long as the Good Girl makes a grand gesture of fixing her little mistakes. No one can fault a person for such an unfortunate accident.
Cute forgetfulness admitted before any damage is done is another strong winning point for the Good Girl, who can quite easily say “I forgot to tell you, your mother called yesterday. Which reminds me, it's her birthday in a week so I bought you this card to send her. Aren't the kittens on the cover adorable?”


Be Confident


A Good Girl knows ahead of time that she'll get away with it, so she takes on every evil deed with absolute confidence.
She can walk into a bank and hold up the cashier, with her immaculately groomed hair, manicured hands and a big smile on her face. Her mannerisms scream “I'm not doing anything wrong, I'm supposed to be here” and not a single person will question her authority.
After robbing the bank, the Good Girl can go shopping at the Tiffany store next door, confident in the knowledge that no one bothered to call the police.
And even if the police came, she would deny everything.


Cover Your Tracks


Most Good Girl crimes are quite petty, like stealing her sister's clothing and “borrowing” her mother's BMW without asking. The important thing is that she knows how to cover her crime.
When she enters her sister's room she doesn't turn on the light but waits for her eyes to adjust to the darkness, you just never know when your sister will be driving past the house and see a light on in her bedroom, that's a dead giveaway that something is amiss.
The Good Girl then steps over any litter on the floor, making sure she displaces nothing. She opens the cupboard slowly and quietly, and scans the rack of clothes with her eyes only. When she spies the little black dress she came looking for, she slips the hanger off the rack and moves the neighbouring clothes to close the gap.
When she leaves the room, she doesn't have to worry about turning off the light.
The same for the BMW. If the tank is a ¼ full of petrol when she gets in, it will be a ¼ full of petrol when she gets out. If something happens while she's driving home drunk and the car ends up scratched or damaged, it's time to deny everything.


Keep Your Story Simple


Remember that line from one of those Shakespeare plays, something about protesting too much (no, I clearly don't remember it either). The point is, the more you complicate your story, the more suspicious you sound.
Also, complicated stories contain details and a Good Girl is too busy being a master criminal to waste time remembering the fine points of her cover story.
If someone asks her “Where were you at 4 o'clock?” her simple answer contains no traceable lies “I was in my bedroom studying Geography.” That sounds just like where a Good Girl would have been when the bank was robbed.
“Where did you get that Tiffany necklace?” is answered with “Oh that? I bought it at the markets 5 months ago.”
Notice how the Good Girl does not bring anyone else into her story, because that would require their back up, which leads me to the next important technique.


Trust No One


There's nobody better at getting away with it than a Good Girl working alone. She can't rely on friends as plausible alibis. Her friends may not be as good as she is, and therefore they won't be as believable. Also, they aren't as confident as the Good Girl, so they'll probably cave under pressure.


There is another important lesson in this:


Don't Brag


One sad fact for the Good Girl is that she has to keep her secret identity under wraps at all times. If it got out that she was really Cat Woman, she'd have the Mayor and Batman to contend with, and no one wants that!
Since no one can be trusted, no one can ever know about her dastardly deeds … unless she has a memory eraser gun and isn't afraid to use it.
BUT since this isn't a comic book we're talking about, just stick to the fact that bragging about getting away with it can't be done.


Last But Not Least, Know Your Limitations


If you are small and weak, then stealing an ATM might not be your thing. You might want to stick to mugging babies for candy.
Even the best Good Girl in all the world, with all her tricks of the trade up her sleeve, will come crashing down from her pearly white cloud if she exceeds her limits.


And that's all there is to it.


Now fly my pretties, fly!

T