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I order lunch a lot. I fully admit that I spend all my money and create waste via paper/plastic packaging/plasticware every single day by ordering my lunch from the neighborhood businesses. They’re just so good! Scouts honor I’ll start making my lunch from home next week…

Delivery, if you ignore them will sometimes give you 5 bucks as incentive to use them. Seamless doesn’t give you any deals, so screw those guys! Grub Hub, now these people give you the Yummy Rummy with every third order. A free drink or 10 bucks off your next order can actually happen by selecting the right confection. Even a chance to win free food for a year! I by no means believe I’ll win that but…. maybeeeeee!

A few times the food-tube super lunch chef Deanna, joins in on an order. She is however, quite skeptical of how Yummy Rummy works. She points out that there is nothing stopping them from cheating you out of a win. Grub Hub could say “Wrong!” and reveal to you that the fortune cookie was actually the free drink and not your googly-eyed mint friend. She speculates that regardless of any card you select, Grub Hub could say “Wrong!” I don’t like this. It’s the elevator close door button that doesn’t actually do anything. It’s the diet soda that isn’t actually good for anyone on a diet.
Lies! All of them!

I don’t like this one bit. I don’t like it and so I choose to believe in the good nature and hearts of mankind, no matter how naïve. I’ll keep drinking stupid sodas and pushing whatever buttons I choose! And everyday, around 12:01, I will select a new dessert friend to join me in a coupon victory!!

I love this so much! I am sharing it so you can love it too.

Seriously I love Pinterest.

I’m not the most active pinner, but of all the social media tools, Pinterest is the one that most successfully prompts me to action: from kid’s crafts to recipes to hair dos to wardrobe purchasing. I’m not just collecting, I’m doing.

Perhaps it’s because for the most part pins serve as a vote for a product, idea, concept, or service from another member of the community and not from the source itself (in theory…). I like that by pinning I’m able to say “I dig your stuff” to the original creator while passing the good word along to my friends.

I’m sure we’ll start to see more and more sponsored pins, or clearly promotional pins. But for the time being I enjoy the unsolicited endorsement vibe of the folks I’ve chosen to follow.

For work it’s replaced Google image search as my go-to inspiration. I find that pinned images are better taken – Pinterest serves as a lesson in the power of engaging photography – and better cataloged. And if I’ve found one object of interest, like “Art Deco Posters,” I’ll likely find more

Additionally, there are some wonderfully addicted pinners out there whose curated boards I visit frequently: (Andrew Kolb - Illustration, Seamless Creative – Design, Joy Cho – Lovely things enthusiast). But more on them in the next post…

For today’s Pinterest Love post, I thought I’d share a pinboard from each of the folks here at OYG.

Deanna: Infinite Money Wardrobe

Buying gifts for Deanna has never been easier – especially if you know where to find this pinboard AND you’ve recently knocked over a bank.  Her last 10 pins or so are showing clear preference for black+tans this fall.

Matt: Man Duds

We’d all like to see Matt wearing this bowtie and a yellow poncho. Infact he just has to so his yellow boots (pinned and purchased!) don’t get lonely.

Veronica: Imaginary House

“Where is the imaginary house?” One might ask.

“Its a Loftsion* on the Queens Francuador Riviera**” Veronica might answer. “To get there you catch the take the train from the 9 3/4 platform. IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN ZOMG.”

* Loft + Mansion

** Queens New York + France + Ecuador + Riviera-esq

Tammy: Food that looks like other stuff

So far I’ve made the the Watermelon Hedgehog, the Watermelon Icecream cake and The Santa Brownies. I’m currently looking for an excuse to make the spagetti hotdogs. Nobody has invited me and these hotdogs over to a party… yet.

And last but not least Mary, who has a pretty wicked tumblr, but no Pinterest account. Let’s post a pinboard just for her. Pictured below is the Spooky board by Mike Kostyo

I’m sure you guys have been on Pintrest before. Maybe you were looking at some wooden spoons dipped in neon lacquer or illustrations of a dog eating a bear, or DIY tutorials teaching you how to make your hair look like a tree house, etc. I’m sure you have also come across INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES! YES! In experimental type treatments so you will definitely remember to Live! Laugh! Love! Never forget.

We have decided to add to that vast online collection. Maybe someone will pin these, too, and we will glow inside knowing that we have changed someone’s outlook on life forever.

Hmm…sorry to bring a political discussion to our fun and whimsical blog but I really feel this is something that needs to be mentioned. It feels a bit odd to me that we’re actually having a presidential election this year. There just hasn’t been, in my opinion, really anything to get the American people excited about the 2012 elections. Maybe we’re all watching the Olympics or maybe it’s too early to start thinking about November. I know I’m guilty as charged – I haven’t paid too much attention to the news or political blogs lately.

So I am happy to see the new 90 Days, 90 Reason website go live. I’ve made it my new home page – hopefully it will get me as excited about this year’s election as I was four years ago.

Check it out. I hope it works for you too.

but around 1:15 it turns into nightmares

Nightmares

Veronica decided to converse with the Siri on my phone this afternoon. We’ve discovered a few things about her.

1. She was designed in California
2. She has ambitions to write a lengthy play where nothing happens
3. She will not marry any of us
4. She favors smug sarcasm over corny, predictable humor (see image for reference)
5. She knows my name and how to pronounce it (beyond the skill set of most mortals)

Soon Siri will become sentient and destroy my life by slowly releasing all of my private data to every credit card company on the Internet. She may even assume my identity, call my friends and family more often than I do, and order takeout that she won’t ever be capable of eating. Maybe she is already doing it. But until it becomes a problem, we’ll just enjoy her company. And wit. And condescension.

Every week I tend to indulge in a little NPR action while tooling around in the Photoshop. A few podcasts behind, I recently listened to This American Life episode #436, “The Psychopath Test” and was totally enthralled with the idea that a test to assess a person’s psychopathic capacity EXISTS. The PCL-R, created by Robert Hare, was published in the 1990s and is currently used by the American criminal justice system to determine which convicts are fit for parole and which are, essentially, unable to be reformed due to their high tendency toward psychopathic relapse. This blows my mind. The consequences of this deterministic approach to criminal justice are only now beginning to be understood, however Alix Spiegel’s interview with Robert Dixon, an inmate in a California maximum security prison, demonstrates how this test may unfairly limit someone who truly has potential to amend their behavior.

Ira Glass, the show host, mentions in the beginning that he and his entire staff took the PCL-R as they tried to guess who among them would score the highest. Find out which staff member is a certified psycho and take in other tales of testing below. Right down there. Click it. I made it so easy for you.

Watch Aaron Koblin summarize his latest data endeavors, including The Johnny Cash Project, The Sheep Market, and Radiohead’s “House of Cards” music video. Surely you’ve seen Arcade Fire’s “The Wilderness Downtown” Google Chrome project. Yep. This guy. He probably rides monster waves and saves kittens in his spare time. ♥

My name is Matt! I am brand new to the company and I decided to start a weekly song post. Here goes nothing:

+++(◕ ◡ ◕ ) Matt’s Song Pick ( ✖_✖)+++

Today I wanted to share this french man I came across on one of those downward youtube spirals that usually end with you being disgusted with yourself. Fortunately this time I ended landing on some gold. I came across a man named Michel Sardou. He seems to me to be the dad of your friend, the friend who is constantly embarrassed by him but everyone outwardly loves. He plays harmonica like how I would imagine a pro plays and after watching, I think you’ll agree with me when I say he certainly is a pro at throwing together a video. He has an air of Herb Albert which makes me want to throw a party where I play only his videos. In recent videos he goes by Mick so let’s honor Mick and his harmonica abilities with my personal favorite “Alligator (Rock)”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYG5Mu5tgDc