I received an email today from TomTom stating that the app for iPhone is now available and starting at $99! Yes! Guess who’s going to have GPS?! What what?! More to follow…
Posted: August 18th, 2009 under Uncategorized - No Comments. Tags: app store, awesome, gps, iphone, tomtom
Posted: August 17th, 2009 under Uncategorized - No Comments. Tags: atm, bailout, government, toothpaste for dinner
Who would want to follow Texas DPS on Twitter? Find me one person.
Posted: August 12th, 2009 under Uncategorized - No Comments. Tags: dps, social networking, twitter, why
I’ve had a bit of an iTunes addiction since I got my iPhone 3G last fall. It’s just too darn easy to download music, movies and TV shows (thank you 3.0) and podcasts straight from my phone and into my collection and now I can do it without even being connected to WiFi.
To pass the time at work I enjoy listening to comedy albums for several reasons:
I spent countless hours (and dollars) searching iTunes weekly for new comedy albums or old comedy albums that I’ve never heard and I enjoy discovering new comedians as well that I can add to my list of favorites. So today I looked at the comedy genre and found a whole slew of new albums that have been released in the past month or so (I’ve been traveling and haven’t kept up the past few weeks). I started going through them one by one and listening to the previews of each track to get a feel for the album and the comedian since I had only heard of two of them before and I wasn’t sure how funny they were.
Right off the bat I found a good one — first try. It got 5 stars, all good reviews, and the preview tracks I heard all sounded promising. But I kept searching. I knew that there was probably only one really good one and I was determined to find it. I went through two more, then three, and after the fifth one… I stopped. They all sucked — except that first one. So I downloaded it and then went to lunch.
Lunch was great, I got back and did my review of the restaurant on Yelp and then starting editing meeting minutes (again — I hate the day to day) and it dawned on me… I had a new comedy album to listen to. So I scrolled through my iPod until I found the newest addition — Matt Braunger and his comedy album, Soak Up the Night.
Holy crap this guy is hilarious — and I mean HI-LAR-IOUS. Hilarious. He starts the album out talking about his uncle reacting to being told by Matt that he was a comedian like he had some unbelievable job such as being a ninja or a unicorn hunter and ends with reasons that owls are not good pets. Download his album or buy it in stores right now! In fact I’ll save you the trouble of Googling it — here is a link: Click me!
Matt Braunger — please make more comedy albums that I can listen to. Thank you.
Posted: July 22nd, 2009 under Uncategorized - 1 Comment. Tags: awesome, comedy, matt braunger, work
Posted: July 22nd, 2009 under Uncategorized - No Comments. Tags: awesome, bear force 1, youtube
My favorite burrito chain has also been Chipotle and I’ve tried other chains only to be dissapointed by a lack of fresh romaine lettuce or jalapeno corn salsa. I will admit that Mission Burrito comes in at a close second (due to their cilantro-lime rice and tomatillo salsa) but Freebirds doesn’t even rank third as far as I’m concerned. Who puts BBQ sauce on their burrito? Not me.
Today my friend Crystal and I went to Chipotle for some delicious burrito bowls since there’s no better way to celebrate a hot Houston day than by eating delicious fresh bowls of goodness for lunch. I ordered my bowl with the same ingredients I always order: rice, chicken, pico, medium salsa, corn salsa, a little cheese, and lettuce. I went down the line and waited to pay and was greeted by a cute Mexican guy who I always see working there (I always see him because I’m always there). I paid for my bowl and he responded with, “Thank you Lauren. See you tomorrow.” I replied, “Probably not tomorrow,” and he said, “Yea, we’ll see you tomorrow baby.”
WHAT? This guy knows my name. I go to Chipotle so frequently (and mostly use my debit card) that this guy actually knows my name. Not only does he know my name, he remembered it and called me it and I was using cash to pay. He didn’t look at my debit card today, he simply knew my name was Lauren. That is embarassing. This isn’t a “cool, I’m a regular like in Cheers” type of situation, this is a “lame, now they realize that I never cook and think the only food I consume is burritos” type situation.
How can I show my face again? How can I walk into Chipotle after this and pretend as though everyone in the joint isn’t thinking, “Wow Lauren is here again. How many time is that this week?” I mean, I don’t eat there more than once a week usually, but what if I do? Will they keep a tally? On the plus side though, being a regular at most places usually has its perks. After awhile you occasionally get free items right? Like maybe next time my drink will be on the house… or maybe next time I’ll wear a disguise so that maybe they won’t recognize me.
Posted: July 15th, 2009 under Uncategorized - No Comments. Tags: burrito bowl, chipotle, sad day
Tomorrow afternoon I will be here…
At the Rio Mar Beach Resort and Spa in beautiful San Juan, Puerto Rico! It’s sort of a spontaneous family vacation, one of the last few probably since Ryan and I both still unmarried (but finally both over 21 — yay beer). Most everything this family does seems to be out of the blue and exciting though. Ryan and I definitely inherited the spontaneity gene from our parents — something I love about the Acklin family. One day it’s seeking out the best scoop of ice cream the city has to offer (it’s Hank’s by the way — check out the Banana Pudding ice cream and you’ll never want anything else) the next it’s a trip to San Juan.
Of course that’s tomorrow. Today I am stuck at work waiting out the day until my vacation starts – dreaming of drinks with rum in them and hot sand between my toes.
Here’s the list of things I plan to do in San Juan:
Posted: July 8th, 2009 under Travel - No Comments. Tags: family, puerto rico, Travel, vacation
NASA, you always manage to crack me up with your sense of humor. How could I forget the first time I heard about JEDI messages or when I named a database EWOC and management not only approved it they also encouraged it. I’ve seen mission posters where the crew was posed like Harry Potter and Indiana Jones and even donned black leather trench coats for a Matrix themed-poster, but this takes the cake…
And check out these old posters from previous Shuttle missions STS-90 and STS-54
I love working at NASA.
Posted: July 7th, 2009 under Uncategorized - No Comments. Tags: nasa, star trek, work
And apparently there’s a Japanese me who has a Facebook. And also, either Google translate is really wrong or Japanese Facebook wants to take me. And possibly someone wants to be in me? This can’t be right… and who is this Mr. Memashou guy anyway?
Posted: July 6th, 2009 under Uncategorized - 2 Comments. Tags: facebook, japan
Please finally release this for the iPhone so I can have cool GPS in my car.
Thank you,
Lauren Acklin
Devoted iPhone user and lover of GPS
Posted: July 6th, 2009 under Uncategorized - No Comments. Tags: gps, iphone, tomtom