By Wahl, on August 8, 2011, at 8:45 pm | Comments are closed
Maybe you don’t know. Maybe you have been living under a rock. Maybe you are living in the Napster days. Maybe you are living in the iTunes days. But, after spending a few years hiding in Europe, the future is finally here: Spotify.
Spotify is the coolest music service in the world. It’s like you pirated 15 million songs, but didn’t have to spend any time doing it. For free, you get access to a library that includes practically every song, every album, every genre you’ve ever heard of. No downloading — it streams.
For $10 a month, you get all that, plus the ability to download them and save them to your mobile phone. So, you can listen to it on the plane. Infinitely better than Pandora. You can play any song you want on demand. Or create awesome playlists. I was on a road trip with Emilily this weekend back to Kohler for the annual Papa Joe Golf Tournament. We built a 200 song library on the fly and synced the songs so I didn’t even have to tap into my capped AT&T data plan (not that we even could, with the crappy cell service in middle-Wisconsin).
I’ve been on the premium $10/month plan for a week now. It’s money very well spent. Don’t believe me? Give CNET’s opinion a try:
If you want to give a try for free (no mobile access, which is the only time I’d ever really use it), go to Spotify.com and sign up for an account. But there’s a waiting list. Unless you know me. I’ve got some extra invites. Let me know if you want access. Otherwise, buy the premium account and start enjoying all the spotifycalifragilisticexpialidocious immediately. It has some pretty cool social features involving Facebook and Twitter than I haven’t even tried yet.
Once you are all set up, you can play rap music for your kids, like these Parents of the Year candidates:
By Wahl, on March 27, 2011, at 9:30 pm | Comments are closed
Saturday night ’twas Game Night here at the North Pole. A rousing game of Widgets & Bitches followed by a battle of the sexes on a 25-year-old-but-never-played-before Pictionary board, including my Mona Lisa:
How the f*ck do you draw a “Sprain” in under 30 seconds?? I started with Brett Favre laying dead on the field (the middle part), because he sprained his ankle last year during the game where he threw this pass. That didn’t work, so I drew a leg over the top of it and pointed to the ankle. Yes, I drew this yesterday…not when I was 4 years old — and yes, Skor guessed this correctly.
Signed prints are available for sale.
The other 30 winning drawings, complete with descriptions added on afterwards for posterity’s sake, from last night’s game are below. Yes, people actually guessed all these drawings correctly.
Oh, and for the record, the guys had a huge come from behind victory — but that’s mostly because we cheated and moved the pieces while the girls were busy trying to guess Carissa’s drawing of a centipede…a centipede on it’s back???:
To save space, the rest of the photos are condensed into this slide show. If you don’t have Flash enabled, you can always view the pics here. Enjoy.
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