Archive for the ‘ On a personal note ’ Category

The Uncensored World of Chatroulette

It’s been described as “a bastard child of Skype and Stumble Upon.“ I’ll admit it. My curiosity got the best of me and I had to try Chatroulette. I mean, if John Stewart is doing it, that makes it ok. Right? As funny as John Stewart’s “first-hand” account is, the best article I’ve seen on the subject [ READ MORE ]

Over the River & Through the Woods

Technically it was over the Puget Sound (via the ferry) and through the stalls of Pike Place Market, but it was an adventure none the less. To see the rest of the pictures, hop on over to my Flickr. [ READ MORE ]

an.experiment.in.stop.motion.

One of my bestest friends in the whole entire world (@amber_mckenna) has spent the last few years traveling the whole entire world (or so it feels). Her current location is Galway, Ireland, so for her birthday a couple of us got together and filmed a movie. I used the opportunity to get up close and [ READ MORE ]

A Pioneer Woman for 2010

We have a saying in our family – “Pretend you’re an Oregon Trail pioneer woman.” Ok, maybe it’s not as much of a saying, as a mantra. I’ll be the first to admit it; I’m not a big outdoors, roughing-it kind of girl. But as my mom will remind my sister and me, as bad [ READ MORE ]

Marketing + Psychology = $$$

Chalk it up to naiveté, being new in the world of marketing, but I thought that the important intersection between marketing and psychology was obvious. It’s one of the reasons that advertising and marketing initially appealed to me. But after reading “Why advertising needs behavioral economics” by Rory Sutherland, it would seem that maybe the [ READ MORE ]

Farm City Pro Rodeo

I spent the weekend exploring, what I like to call, the Wild West of Eastern Oregon with @amber_mckenna. Stationed in Pendleton for the duration of her Snowden internship, Amber invited me to a little thing called the Farm City Pro Rodeo. Actually it wasn’t little, it was quite large complete with an accompanying fair. We trolled [ READ MORE ]

The Religion of Annaism

This summer I read My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (bear with me, I swear this is not a book report) and I cannot say enough about how amazing it was!! Picoult writes in the perspective of every character so convincingly as she weaves together the story of a family torn apart by disease. The [ READ MORE ]

Confession 2.0

I first heard about the Post Secret project in a magazine, Cosmo or Allure or some such girlie magazine. It was just a short little burb but intriguing non-the-less. What I found upon further investigation was an ongoing community art project where people anonymously send in postcards with secrets on them. It started in 2005 [ READ MORE ]