Facebook

It's official, I'm a sell out.  Not only your avereage sell out, but the worst kind.  I vowed I would NEVER EVER get a Facebook account and now I'm completely addicted.  I'm disgusting, I comment on everything.

I feel like its still a hidden pleasure of mine.  My profile is hidden and completely unsearchable.  I only add friends to my personal discression yet I still managed to get over 150 facebook friends rather quickly.  Now I feel like I know everything.

I know who's visiting the area from out of town, I know who's sick, and all other kinds of too much information.  Its an incredible time sucker, but the best way to keep in touch with friends from study abroad or other trips. :)

Life pre-iPhone?

I've had my iphone for a month and I already don't know how I could have possibly lived without it before.  I'm obsessed.  Driving through a neighborhood with my boyfriend, wondering what to eat, I pull out my iphone and search the yelp application for nearby restaurants.  Then he reminds me that we're driving through MY neighborhood...where I've eaten out a bazillion times and clearly don't need to use any fancy technological application.  But that's totally not the point, the point is that I CAN use it.

I also like to use the GPS application and watch the little blue dot get closer to the little red dot as I approach my location.  Probably not the best thing to do while driving, but its very entertaining all the same.

While the iphone has definately made my life easier and more productive in some regards, productivity has dropped in other forms of life..like a scale if you will.  Definately more productive in terms of keeping up with emails, linkedin, and the news.  However, when I discovered espn.com's awesome interface for live updates of hockey games, I started to pay less attention in class when there's a game on....and the facebook addiction of mine deserves its own post.

Finally, my biggest vice: I have the highest score of all my friends in the Bubblewrap game.  HIGHEST SCORE!!!

Life pre-iphone was so not as cool!

Babchin for President 2008

I may be getting really busy here....

Babchin for President

Lovin' Chrome

Google Chrome came out last week and I'm lovin' it!  I like how you can pull tabs in and out of the window.  Its very comfortable for presenting.  I no longer have to copy/paste my presentation in another window, it just flies right out.  It has your 9 most visited sites right on the homepage with a link to favorites on the side. 

When you type it a webpage, it enables an automatic google search option which is very convenient and saves our lazy selves from having to first go to google.com and then search for something.  It still has a few bugs to work out, but nothing major.

I'd also like to point out that its not available on MAC yet...awwww poor Finder...keep looking!!!

Olympic Chinese Contraversy

Everyday I come home from work and in flat screen HD happiness (I love you baby!!), I watch the Olympics. From the spectacular and controversial opening ceremonies, everyone knew these games would be iconic and memorable.

The first issue was with the age of the Chinese gymnasts. They are supposed to be at least 16 years of age. These girls looked like they couldn't have been more than 10 years old. The Chinese government proved their age with passports that could have been easily foraged, and it is clear to see some of the girls have barely reached puberty.

Second came the discovery of the lip-syncing song. China decided the adorable 7 year old who was sang during the open ceremonies wasn't cute enough to appear on stage, so they subbed her for a 10 year old girl, who was also duped until the last minute led to believe that she would sing live. They insulted one girl by saying she wasn't pretty enough, and the other by saying her voice wasn't good enough. For the record, both little girls are completely adorable!!!

Finally there has been some distinct concern over the judging of the Chinese athletes. In every sport, it doesn't matter how much the Chinese athlete screwed up, they would get phenomenal scores. A gymnast falls and the judges turn their backs, the synchronized divers make a mistake, no one looks. There is something very very shady going on, and it isn't the smog in the air!

In the end, the Americans are triumphant! Michael Phelps broke just about every world record possible. Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson made Olympic history taking the Gold and Silver US metals in all around gymnastics. And even though its not over yet, the US currently holds 5 more Olympic metals than China. HA!!! In your cheating, shady faces!! USA!! USA!!! USA!!!!

G-d and Global Warming

As you're well aware from my last GSBN post, I think this whole Bay Area hippie going green initiative has gone completely over board. Apparently, I'm not the only one who thinks so. I work for an internet company where everyone and their mother drives a hybrid or a Prius. Two weeks ago, I was at work minding my own business when G-d and mother nature gave us their true opinion of Going Green. In perfect sunny weather, with no wind factor, a large tree branch fell on top of a Prius. Mother Nature likes her carbon emissions early in the morning, and no pretentious Prius is going to take that away! This was truly environmentalism at its best. The funniest thing was when the receptionist sent an email to the whole building saying, "anyone with a Prius-come outside!" That's like calling a fire drill!

GSBN: Blue in the Face from Going Green

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