My good friend is participating in an art show about bicycles. What a great concept! You may know Hannah from such websites as www.hannahwade.com (created by yours truly) or www.interruptart.com. Comes see the show!
Jan
23
Pinkberry announced it’s new flavor today - Coffee! The Pinkberry collection now consists of three flavors, original, green tea and coffee. Wonder if the third flavor choice had anything to do with Starbucks buying the company? Eh, eh?
Oct
19
The other day I presented the radical claim that zombies may be just as hot, if not hotter than pirates right now. This was based on the popularity of movies like “Shaun of the Dead”, “28 Days Later” and the recent Andy Samburg video where he punches people in the face while eating and then does a zombie dance. I thought that perhaps pirates had reached their peak last year with the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie and the pirate Halloween costume crazy of 2006.
However - according to Google trends the term “pirates” has a much higher search volume than “zombies”:
At first I thought this could have been because “Pirates” is also the name of an baseball team. However, internationally, where baseball is not as popular, the results hold strong, “pirates” are the winner.
(Blue = pirates, Red = red)
It should be noted that the search rate for “zombies” is a bit more substantial in the US, UK, and Canada. The UK did come up with “28 Days Later” and “Shaun of the Dead”.
It’s official - pirates are still hotter than zombies right now.
Oct
10
I’m really loving somecards.com, “when you care enough to hit send”.
Come on, there is nothing like sending a semi-sarcastic note to a friend framed by some turn of the century clip-art.
Oct
3
Recently revisited Lewis Carrol’s famous “Jabberwocky” poem. Some claim this poem is the greatest “nonsense poem” of all time. Carrol made up many of the words by combining sounds and letters from two or more words.
- “‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
- Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
- All mimsy were the borogoves,
- And the mome raths outgrabe.”
- Mimsy = miserable & flimsy
- Slithy – Combination of “slimy” and “lithe.”
- Do any of these nonsense words seem a bit familiar? Are our favorite webtreprenuers using “portmanteau” (fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning) to create their website names?
- Eventful? YouTube? Blinksale? Fotki? BitTorrent?
- Beginning to sound a bit like a Lewis Carroll poem, eh?
Sep
26
You may have noticed that I changed the name of my blog from “the art of eating a pomegranate” to “Sue Point oh!”. I had to make the name change because I was looking at my Google Analytics and noticed that most of my Google visitors arrived by searching for “pomegranate eating” and I felt like I was being misleading. So now I’ve adopted this cheezy new title - my name does rhyme with “two” and I felt that I had the moral obligation to do it. If people start complaining of feeling sick to their stomach by the cheesiness of it all then I will find something a bit less cutesie.
Now, back to those pomegranates - November is national pomegranate month and pomegranates are all the rage right now for their health benefits. Here is a link to the instructional website I made with tips on how to open, juice, and eat a pomegranate.
Aug
22
CraigStats!
I’m in the process of looking for a new apartment in San Francisco and feeling quite forlorn because there are very vacant apartments and tons of qualified tenants at Open House. Apparently the market now is similar to how it was during the dot-com boom where one-bedrooms in lowest low of Lower Haight are renting for $1800.00.
Thanks to CraigStats I can now put graphs and visuals to the depression that is searching for an apartment in San Francisco. This site uses apartment listing data from CraigsList and the Google Maps API technology. One of the best features of this site are the heat maps overlaid on the city showing density for high rents, vacancies, postings, etc. Apparently NYC, LA and Seattle are next on the list to receive the CraigStats treatment.
On another note - what’s up with the “I crotch San Francisco” logo at the top right of this page? What does that mean? I’m willing to accept “heart” as a verb because it sounds cute, like a puppy, “I heart NYC” but I’m not sold on this crotch business.
Jul
16
I can’t explain why but I absolutely love those eHarmony commercials. I guess it’s because can uplift the spirits, make you believe in love again, and reaffirm that it’s OK to spend so much time on the Internet in just a 30 second spot. I guess that’s why I found thie Facebook Parody done in the eHarmony so funny! Since traveling I’ve started using this site a lot more to connect with people I’ve met while traveling and some of my early adopters/still in school friends back home. After logging on for a twenty minute session of poking, wall writing, status changing, iLiking and gift giving I logoff and feel a big silly about the way I just spent my time. This little video showed me that I’m not alone in realizing how it’s a little bit ridiculous but we love it anyways!
Jan
16
Last night I rang in the season premier of “24″ with a group of friends. We celebrated the occasion by playing a drinking game which consisted of drinking beer for certain key events.
For example -
- Drink one for a “split screen”
- Drink two when someone questions authority
- Drink three when CTU goes in lockdown.
My favorite rule was “finish your beer when Jack plays judge, jury and executioner.”
After browsing the net I realize that our clever drinking game does not live in a bubble. Here are some links to some other great “24″ drinking games. Hope this keeps your Mondays spicy!
24 Drinking Game from Pedro Vera’s Blog
24 Drinking Game from the Chicago Tribune
