Things that suck about DrawSomething
The obsession with DrawSomething, the latest craze in social bathroom time gaming, tends to begin rather innocently. The words you’re given to play are new, fresh and challenging. You start off playing during bathroom breaks, or waiting in line. It’s easy. It’s fun. My personal journey with DrawSomething began as an interesting way to socialize.. read more →
Bitches Love Pinterest
I have to admit, I’m guilty of following every start-up with a quirky name, and signing up for an account or beta if it’s available. I’m constantly hungry to try out every new-fangled concept developed by a 20-some year old. An app that lets me pay my bar tab from my iPhone? Another e-payment.. read more →
Life Analytics: Why Pictures of Sandwiches Are Never Going Away.
Stop hassling your lunch date for taking a photo of their meal for the fourth time this week. That interestingly angled picture of a sandwich will surely evoke a really nice, pleasant memory in the years ahead. Welcome to this generation’s way of documenting life and storing memories and emotions. Your lunch date’s grand kids.. read more →
Digital Housekeeping for a New Year.
I like to be well-prepared to greet a new year. This means having a tidy house, a clean desktop, and an overall clean slate for the 1st of the year. Well, it’s the 29th and I’m freaking out because I just did a vanity search on Google and found a nasty mess of my life... read more →
Lonely Meme Halloween
This Halloween, I decided to be an Internet meme. More specifically, I chose to be Hipster Ariel. As was made apparent by my night of confused and/or disregarded looks, this was a bad idea. For those who are not familiar… According to KnowYourMeme, Hipster Ariel (a.k.a Hipster Mermaid) is an Advice Animal image macro series featuring a screenshot.. read more →
The Planking Plague Strikes the Agency World
Got my 15 minutes of fame today. A photo of me planking my boss’ office was posted to our company’s Facebook page and somehow made its way onto Media Bistro. Now it’s time to fix my reputation for doing something “so 2 months ago”. read more →
5 Awesome Online Travel Planning Tools (and how your buddies end up doing all the work)
I’ve been keeping busy planning my upcoming trip to Spain this month. I’ll be heading over there with Carlos for about 10 days to explore Madrid, Barcelona and Seville. It’s his birthday and our first wedding anniversary, so we figured we’d do something randomly extravagant. I’m a complete wreck when I plan a trip. I.. read more →
How I Won an iPad and Influenced People
For some reason, I’ve been following the Facebook page run by the car dealership where I purchased my car a few years ago. Every time I come across one of their updates, I flash back to that one late-night OCD rampage I had where I needed to decided to “like” every brand I’ve ever interacted.. read more →