As far as age goes, I’m on the “fairly young” side (I just turned 24). So why is it that I feel a million years old when a 13-year-old doesn’t know what a Walkman is?
How to let Twitter know that you’re really, truly dead
June 29th, 2009 | Posted by Rebecca
The past week has been filled with the very sad, very real deaths of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and most recently, Billy Mays of OxiClean fame. And then we were also hit with the deaths of Jeff Goldblum, Britney Spears and Harrison Ford,
The Next ZooLoo Contest: Who Wants to Buy the Intern Lunch?
June 27th, 2009 | Posted by AaronBaer
Driving home yesterday after my first week at ZooLoo, I heard a story on NPR about an annual auction on eBay to have lunch with Warren Buffet.
After I properly mentally classified Warren Buffet as the second-richest person in the world, and not the 1970’s margarita-drinking pop star,
Harry Potter… The musical!
June 26th, 2009 | Posted by Rebecca
After a fun bout with the stomach flu yesterday, there are few things that are going to make me feel better. Luckily, this is one of them.
Harry Potter: The Musical was written by Matt Lang, Nick Lang and Brian Holden, and the music is by Darren Criss and AJ Holmes.
Amazon Best Buys
June 25th, 2009 | Posted by AaronBaer
After the 32 hour drive from Athens to Scottsdale I am finally getting settled into life in the desert. However, I still haven’t gotten used to the three hour time difference which has lead to early bed times and even earlier mornings. I guess a “perk” of waking up before dawn is that I can still catch the high quality infomercials.
Twitter book infuriates English teachers everywhere
June 24th, 2009 | Posted by Rebecca
Dear god, help us all… apparently two 19 year-old college students, Emmett Rensin and Alex Aciman, are so lazy that they can’t even take the time to read Cliffnotes anymore.
More layoffs at MySpace
June 23rd, 2009 | Posted by Rebecca
It was announced today that sinking ship MySpace is planning to lay off 300 of its 450 non-U.S. employees, a definite blow after last week’s staff cuts. “The company has now announced that over 700 of it’s 1,800 total employees have been or will be laid off - 30% of U.S. staff last week, and 66% of non-U.S. staff today.”
Twittered to death
June 22nd, 2009 | Posted by Rebecca
Ooookay… In the latest Darwinism news, a 17 year-old in Romania died while she was Twittering on her laptop. WHILE IN THE TUB.
Let’s prank the ZooLoo intern
June 19th, 2009 | Posted by Rebecca
Donut/Lunch Fetcher, aka Aaron The Intern, starts on Monday, and what better way to welcome him than with open arms and thumbtacks on his chair?
A social experiment through The Sims
June 19th, 2009 | Posted by Rebecca
When The Sims first came out, my main objectives when I played were to see how quickly I could kill my characters or how quickly I could get them to hook up. The rest of the time was spent finding cheat codes for more money and building hideous-looking houses for my Sims with garish decorations. In short, I never really took the game all that seriously.