Apps on my Mind

CURRENT APP OBSESSIONS

Before the occasional ipad app spring clean, here are a few of my favourites, which will most likely be staying.

 







Addictive apps are always the best ones. We hate admitting it. But they are actually a great thing. Well that's what I think. My homework and mother beg to differ. I will now proceed to tell you why they are great. Here goes Nathan justifying why he should rather play on his ipad than revise for exams...

Addictive apps always provide one with entertainment. Never will you utter the world 'bored' as they are an immediate treatment for the syndrome. With a world of strategic, continuous and pointless stroylines, one may feel like they're wasting their time but continue with the game anyway. 

So that's my theory. Your lemons for that lemonade. 

Without further or do, here are my current favourites and possible remainers on the tablet post the spring clean (it's memory has exceeded, oops).

1. TEMPLE RUN OZ 

(Not free, sorry)

Thee best Temple Run out there. No words can describe the enjoyment and satisfaction one receives when participating in this version of Temple Run. With various scenes, it is the most spontaneous and exciting Temple Run out there. Give your tablet it's very own dpl and put this at the top of your list. Bordom is never even seen on the horizon as this game will never tire. 

2. CANDY CRUSH

(Free)

I am afraid to mention that I've hopped on the band-waggon with Candy Crush. I willingly enjoy it despite forceful downloading of the app. It's not even fun. That's not why I play it. I'm assuming that people play it purely because of it's addiction rays that it ejects out into our brains. Ones anger and frustration of losing a level only makes you want to play it more. If only advertisements worked as well as this. Wow I'd be broke then.




       



 

3. PLAGUE INC.   

(Free)

With its cruel and amoral storyline, this game is fantastic. Is it wrong to create a deadly disease and try and kill every human on earth, and enjoy it? Eh, quite frankly I enjoy it. Addictive and fun. It combines some of my favourite things; world affairs, geography and science. With a range of symptoms and transmission methods, your unique disease is bound to contain a lethality to wipe out a fictional world.

4. PHYZIOS

(Free)

A physics simulator. Only my favourite type of app. Experiment with a range of solids, mix them together and observe chemicals and reactants as they would appear in nature. Displayed in the picture (left) are walls with water gushing down, one of the many combinations one can create. Addictive and interesting, this app contains infinite objects and chemicals for you to play around with. Give science a try, it won't bite. Well it shouldn't. It's free and small in memory capacity. Perfect for on-the-go downloading.
 






5. SPORCLE

(Free)
 

How about some trivia? What about an app for it? Name the subject, Sporcle has a quiz related to it. I personally enjoy doing the geography quizzes. I must say that my US States knowledge has greatly increased thanks to this handy fellow. Impress friends with your new-found knowledge and test the knowledge which you already have. Embracing knowledge is always a good thing.






So there you have it; some of my bordom cures and additional dpl app add-ons. 

Have a ball, and trust me, you will. 


Cheerio Bumbleheads  

Magazine Collections

My Favourite Magazines

 

 

An important literary addition to ones dpl can always be a good thing. Something to cancel out the total lack of importance that most of the other products probably have. Let's be serious, most products that we want more than need don't have much of a purpose. 

Monocle is my favourite magazine. It touches all (my) interests, provides innovative and intelligent articles with a sophisticated yet juvenile approach to media and up-to-date information about world issues and foreign affairs. With a hint of architecture, travel and culture - it's right up my alley. 

It's a magazine that one can live their life by, it's my bible, my news channel choice and my insight onto the rest of the world. 

 Magazine collections are just as much a desirable product than any gadget/clothing/bum cream on the market. I myself collect two magazines, Wallpaper* and the one displayed above (Monocle). It gives me pleasure to gaze at the overly-full shelf above my desk and to admire the accomplishment and patience it's taken to collect those issues every month. 

A tip when starting a magazine collection is to (obviously) choose a magazine that interests you. This may sound as if I'm talking to a bunch of four year-olds but honestly, you might buy a magazine and then never read it. Therefore, buy one that you know you'll read. When the new month approaches, your legs should automatically guide you to a newsstand, with your heart racing of excitement that you will once again be reunited with your bible, your insight to the rest of the world. 

Some magazines I recommend:

• Monocle
• Wallpaper*
• National Geographic
• Stuff
• Rolling Stone
• Esquire
• GQ 

There we go. Links present. 

I highly encourage anyone to start a collection. Today. 


Cheerio Bumbleheads

Penny Boards!

While glancing over "refraction" as part of my physics curriculum (and the fact that exams are right around the corner and yet I sit here blogging), my mind is in other places. Owning a blog such as this, I am constantly alert regarding things to feature on here. While glancing over on my mental dpl, letting my mind flouder away from physics, I came across an empty space. A Penny Board. A kick-ass one. One that I've handpicked from the sea or ordinary ones. One preferably that I've customized off of their website (provided at the bottom). 
It's the perfect size to fill in the mental gap of desirable objects that I wish to own. 

I may have jumped onto the bandwagon a little late for this item. But who cares. Pop culture has absorbed this item too quickly for people to be able to keep up. That's my theory.

Where customizing begins

Here are a few customized boards that I came up with. I encourage anyone to check out the website and make your own one or choose from an array of ready-mades. 

There are endless possibilities of this item. You suddenly find that time lapses once you've finished customizing a board, only to realise that you want to make another one. 


 http://www.pennyskateboards.com/ - You know what to do

Have a ball - please feel free to leave a comment or to send your customized board to me in the comments. Would love to see them.

Cheerio Bumbleheads

No Purpose Art Prints

Sometimes you get a feeling, when you see a piece of art or photography that you like but you don't quite know why you like it. I must say, I like that feeling. It gives life a sort of spontaneity and humour when you find yourself staring at a picture that mesmerizes you for no perticular reason. 

I recently discovered Society6: an online store dedicated to art prints printed on various media. (Sorry if I am a bit slow for discovering this site now rather than a few years ago)

It has changed my life. I find myself automatically typing its url into my searchbar while my eyes wait in anticipation for the site's homepage to appear. 

Eventually it appears. I immediately click on 'Art Prints' and an array of categories are positioned on my monitor. Which one do I want to browse (or potentialy purchase from) first? 

You see, I like them all. Therefore I cliked 'all' having to avoid having to narrow my choise down to a single category. 


It is the ideal website to browse art or photography if you are searching for that mesmarizing feeling of not knowing why you like a specific picture. I strongly advise you to check it out. 

Another glorious thing about this site: You can buy different sizes of the prints and can have them printed on pillows, iphone covers, t-shirts, mugs and the list goes on.....


Here's a taster. 

So do you understand me when I mention that feeling of not knowing why you like a specific picture? 

These are purely a taster not any specific genre or art style. However expect a proper society 6 feature on here soon.


http://society6.com/prints  - Do yourself a favour


Cheerio Bumbleheads

Quirky Living Choices

A friggin' hamburger bed

 Everybody has that dream that when they're all grown up they want to have this magnificent and unique living space, something that highlights their specific interests and taste using quirky furniture and tasteful items. 

Periodic table shower curtain

Preferbly a loft, I plan to handpick each item. It will be amazing. 


While trolling the web trying to find things that I wanted to be in my future dwelling, I stumbled across something extraordinary; a website dedicated to products of a complete contempory nature, items with no specific need or purpose merely put on earth for complete entertainment and desire of the consumor. 

http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/ - welcome to my life. 

Judging from this website, I have mentally pre-ordered dozens of these items. Without further or do, let's get started!

Poor little man

 

Floating book shelves

The awesomest computer station out there, which does actually exist, not only in sci-fi films

Lens cap coffee flask

These items are infact real, and are certainly wanted by a large group of people, well, me leading that group. 

With only a selected few showed on this post, ThisIsWhyImBroke.com contains things beyond your wildest dreams, AND, they're all for sale. What a world we live in. 

So I suggest you take that mouse and head on over there this second to find the niche you want for your future home, one that suits you and your entertainment needs and desires. 

Have a ball.

Cheerio Bumbleheads.

PS
If you wish, please let me know what you think of this website, would love to hear your responses or what you wish to place in your homes. 

The DPL is here!

Where it started

Don't act as if you've never had one of these lists. 
Everybody makes this list, sometimes we're oblivious of even making it. But it's there.  
And as a frequent list-taker, I've taken on the challenge of turning mine into a blog which will hopefully be right up your alley (figure out that figure of speech for yourself).

So here it goes...
Welcome everybody. Please do make youselves comfortable as I promise that you won't be disappointed. 

Whether it be clothing, furniture, appliances, electronics or even bum cream that I fund disirable will be posted on here for your enjoyment.  It won't be as boring as it sounds, I promise, I have been told that I have somewhat of a sense of humor and have plenty ideas up my sleeve.

Do you ever get the feeling that certain products have your name invisibly embossed all over them? Or perhaps your conscience sends electrical waves through the window of your favourite store, directly into the products which you want, saying "We were ment to be together"

The phrase 'Money can't buy happiness' is the biggest load of male cow dung I've ever heard of and has no room in my overly imaginative brain. 

So please, enjoy future posts and take what you want out of them. No judgement, all God's children yada yada. 

Cherio bumbleheads. 

PS
I do have instagram and twitter if you wish to follow me.