It’s not that often that you can get 50% off at Starbucks but that’s essentially what you’re getting with a current Living Social deal. Get the deal for $5 but receive a $10 eGift from Starbucks. But time is running out.
It’s now official. Apple Event on September 12, 2012. With the shadow of a “5,” you can safely assume the much rumored iPhone 5 cometh. Are there Advent calendars counting down to Apple events?
Are LEGO toys a passion or an addiction? It’s getting to be a close call for me with more and more LEGO sets introduced. The latest Minifigures Series 8 released at the beginning of September.
We got the Evil Robot and the Fairy. For the Evil Robot, you can feel his big bucket-like helmet and his gun’s rod. Long, skinny pieces are distinctive to feel out. For the Fairy, search out her wings. They’re an odd shape and also flat.
If you purchase over $75 at the LEGO Store, you get this limited Monsters Fighters promotional set. It’s a good time to start Christmas shopping for kids! Have you seen the Christmas Advent calendar sets?
Came across these items while browsing Safeway.
Still no Slam magazine Kicks edition. I might have to look elsewhere.
Here’s a chicken checking out the neighborhood Starbucks. Wonder if he ever made it inside before? I felt somewhat obliged to hold open the door for a fellow patron.
Spotted a new Acura ILX headed out of Pearl City.
From the back view, I wasn’t too impressed. This Acura looked too much like an upscaled Honda Accord. It didn’t have a distinctive Acura look.
Them bright minds (and great customer service) at Zappos are at it again. We all should have seen this one coming since it makes so much sense. Pinterest continues to be a scorcher where users visually pin their likes, styles, and inspirations. Zappos’s new service called PinPointing takes a Pinterest profile and based on pins, makes recommendations for products available from Zappos. Utter genius!
Here’s what PinPointing pinpointed for me.
Beyonce’s performance of I Was Here celebrating World Humanitarian Day at the United Nations New York headquarters is absolutely redefining. The showcase of the human spirit was accentuated by the visual technology used. Just watch, and it’s okay to tear up.
That’s no curtain. That’s a huge projection!
I don’t know about you, but I like to associate songs and music to events to help remember the occasion. For the Scion FR-S Social Media Superstar Search contest, here are some of the songs stuck in my head. No particular order and no particular reasons for picking these songs, just songs that I like.
You can also find the full list on my shared iTunes playlist and a partial list on Spotify. Sorry, having a problem embedding the Spotify playlist here. 🙁
Check out this video comparing the moves of MJ and the Black Mamba.
What surprises me more is the amount of time it must have taken to sift through all this footage! Now that’s passion.
One of the interesting aspects of joining the Starbucks Rewards is not just the program’s perks but taking a look at your coffee-addicted behavior. Okay, so you may not really want to know how many times you’ve visited Starbucks (thankfully, there are no (visible) dollar amounts spent at each visit), but looking at your Rewards History, you can easily chart your visits and stars earned. Here’s what my July 2012 looked like.
I earned 12 Rewards stars during the month and as you can guess, I treat myself to a drink on most Fridays. On July 13, I earned a free drink (every 15 stars at the Gold level).
Doing a real quick analysis on a monthly basis gives me the chart below.
Starting in June 2012, my Starbucks visits (and consumption) went up considerably. I should take a look at blog posts from that month to see what was up. For the on-going 12 Star Dash, I added the orange reference line. Interesting… If I had seen this data before, I wouldn’t have taken the contest so lightly, having met the 12-star goal only three times all in the past three months. To complete the Dash, I need to rack up 12 stars in less than half a month.
Hmmm, time to strategize…
