Barrel of Monkeys
As a way to create late night procrastination...I have finally decided to stop procrastinating on the little things I keep meaning to blog about, but never get around to it. Most of these are random screen shots I created to talk about, because I felt like it!
Let's start with the day of my birthday, July 27th, 2008. I woke up and checked facebook, because it's like Christmas morning to see all the messages you get from people who care enough to wish you a happy birthday! Actually, Christmas morning a lot of people get on facebook wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. But anyway, that's besides the point! I'm not sure if they have always done this and I just forgot, but I was excited. I opened facebook and this appears at the top of the window:
That would have totally made my day, but hey, it was my birthday, so much better stuff to come! Like getting a ton of Vera Bradley stuff from my grandma to match my new glasses, and having my first legal drink (in the US) bought by my godparents, and hanging with my boyfriend and friends, and making new best friends! :) Great day! Keighley and I have decided we're celebrating our half birthdays in January, since our birthdays are in the summer and no one is ever around!
Next we'll change gears and go to Plurk. This is a website that is similar to Twitter, but with a few differences. Like how the timeline scrolls like an actually timeline, but not really, and you can comment on your friend's updates. Kevin was trying it out, and I figured, why not I try it out too! I caught on to it more than Kevin did. He tried, but he just couldn't get into it. There is a feature of Plurk called Karma. Basically your Karma will go up if you plurk reasonably everyday, and get friends, and comment on others and get comments. As your Karma goes up, you get access to more features of Plurk. Well, after using it for a while, I got tired of it. Twitter hasn't been fail whaling a whole lot, at least not to me, recently, and I would rather stick with that, than have two. So I decided that when I got to Plurk Nirvana, I would quit using Plurk! Well, after forever and forever, I finally made it! I documented the occasion by using Grab on my macbook, and got my proof:
81.01 was the absolute lowest you can get for it to turn over to Plurk Nirvana. There is no where to go from there. So I quit. It did go up a bit more, since I did plurk about getting plurk nirvana and how I was leaving. But now it is down to 57.07, and it has almost been a month since I last stopped using it. I would have thought it would go down faster. It was really hard to get up to Plurk Nirvana, though. You have to plurk perfectly!
There is a graph you can see to show your Karma:
I put a link to the actual image so you can see it bigger. The real size wouldn't fit in my blog space! You can see how times I would lost Karma, then pick back up again. I deserved that plurk nirvana for how hard I worked on it!
Way back at the beginning of September we were getting ready for a football game. We were worried because Tropical Storm Hannah was predicted to hit us that day. I checked the radar, and she was just miles away from us...and that is the closest she ever came. We had no rain that day. It was crazy and hard to believe!
The black plus sign in the white circle is where Blacksburg is. Hannah was that close, yet never hit us! Amazing!
The next few screen shots are from my iPod Touch!
I downloaded a bunch of free games from the app store this morning, just because I have a lot of times were I have a few minutes where I'm waiting for a class to start, and it isn't enough time to really do anything, but it is still boring just sitting there. Thus where these little games, that take no real amount of time come in! Today I was waiting for lab to start, and I was playing the air hockey game...which is completely awesome, especially for being free! I was playing against the computer, who is a tough competetor if I do say so myself, and I won. It was my first time playing it, so I was excited, but I felt sorry for the computer, because after I won, it flashed LOSER! on its side, and YOU WIN! on my side:
It just made me laugh. :)
I think if I had lost, it would have made me cry...
A while ago, Kevin and I played Dots. This is another one where I won...haha, so I just wanted to gloat a little:
In keeping the the spirit of games, back when I first got my ipod touch, I showed a screen shot of a high score of the jawbreaker game. Since then I have beaten it, and I was quite excited when I got almost all of the blue on the screen to touch, but a pesky two!
Kevin got me into a few podcasts on revision3, and one of them is the Internet Superstar show. It is a podcast where they interview people who have made it big on the internet. This particular podcast they were interviewing the stars of the Midwest Teen Sex Show. I was so excited when I saw one of them wearing a threadless shirt!
Yay! He is wearing:
I always get so excited when i see people wearing threadless shirts. Just because I am crazy about them, and I have like...40 of them. Also, the receptionist at Ace of Cakes also wears threadless shirts, which makes an already awesome show, so much awesomer! I've also seen threadless on Scrubs. So basically, when I saw it on Internet Superstar, I immediately took a screen shot, because I was just too excited not to! :)
And last but not least...for now...I share my mugshots!
~Taylor~