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Hey bloggers! I thought I would share some of the websites that I regularly visit. Some of them are more for entertainment purposes than others, but they’re all definitely worth checking out.

1. Fark

"It’s not news, it’s Fark." Fark is a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site (it’s kind of like the Spokeo of news sites in a way). Fark displays news articles, which are mostly hilarious or bizarre, sent in by readers. Be sure to check out the comments, which are usually really entertaining.

2. Badmovies.org

I’m a fan of film, including b-movies. Badmovies.org compiles a list of horribly awesome b-movies, and provides reviews and ratings for all of them. There are definitely good b-movies, and there are also terrible, hard-to-watch b-movies; the site let’s you know which category each film falls under. The reviews are hysterical, and are fun to read even if you don’t plan on watching the movie.

3. Cute Overload

Cuteoverload.com searches the web to consolidate the cutest of the cute pictures and videos of animals. It’s not those "LOLZ I HAZ A CHEEZEBURGER" pictures, but rather really adorable and entertaining pictures and videos that really make you laugh or say "awwwww." It’s a feel-good website, and if you don’t like baby animals then the only I have to say to you is, "I’m sorry."

4. NPR

NPR is my favorite news site. They offer broad views on an assortment of topics, and have great talk/audio sections including "all things considered." Besides the news and politics, they also have really great arts and music sections, and include exclusive first listens to new artists and a new "song of the day" each day to listen to. The website is really well put together, and the interviews and radio station are worth a listen as well.

More to come later! Feel free to share some of your favorite websites.

Cheers,

Katie

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Hey bloggers! Check out my "Paint" skills and the snazzy floor plan I made of our office, with pictures and all! :

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Cheers,

Katie

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Hey bloggers! No, we did not get new red staplers, but something else exciting happened in the office. As I was posting last week’s blog about the new office chairs, I noticed the guys rolling the new chairs into the main room. It turns out that nobody likes the new chairs (except for me) and that they’re returning them for different ones. We then spent the next hour trying to disassemble the chairs, which, let me tell you, is easier said than done. We were having such a difficult time taking the chairs apart, we ended up calling the manufacturing company for help. They emailed us help videos (a sign that we are not the only ones who have had problems), which show middle-aged woman in heels disassembling the chairs with quickness and ease. It was more hilarious than helpful, but they assisted in getting the job done.

The moral of the story: make sure you really like an office chair before purchasing it, because taking it apart is not cool.

Cheers,

Katie

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Hey bloggers! How are all you fine people doing? Spokeo is doing quite well, and is continuing to prepare for the launch of Spokeo 4. For instance, we upgraded all of our office chairs the other day. There is nothing like a new office chair! It’s very exciting, I know. I completely understand if you’re finding it difficult to restrain the urge to jump up in the air and do a heel click.

In other news, I definitely just wrote a blog about office chairs. However, I assure you that there will be much more titillating and exhilarating news to come (perhaps we will be getting new, red staplers next week…?). We are in the calm before the storm, the storm being Spokeo 4.

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I would also like to inform everybody that you can donate to Haiti by texting "HAITI" to 90999. Haiti is in our thoughts, and any action or contribution, no matter how small, counts.

Cheers,

Katie

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Hey Bloggers!

As I  mentioned in my previous blog, Spokeo has recently relocated and inhabited a new office. The office is currently pretty austere, but there is one thing that adds some character to the place, being the ping pong table! The ping pong table completely dominates the office, standing front and center of our main room. It was definitely the first thing I noticed when I first stepped foot inside the office, and it also gave me a strange, reassuring feeling that I would definitely get along with everyone here.

(The photo is of two of our engineers battling it out!)

Good ol’ Wikipedia has a list of fun facts about ping pong, which I pasted below for your reading pleasure:

• Multi-talented sportsman Max Woosnam, an Olympic and Wimbledon champion at lawn tennis and one-time captain of the England National football team, once defeated actor and film director Charlie Chaplin at table tennis while playing with a butter knife instead of a racket.
• Table tennis inspired the first commercially successful video game, Pong.
• In the early 1970s the People’s Republic of China (PRC) invited American table tennis players to a tournament in the PRC. This marked a thawing in relations with the United States that was followed up by a visit by U.S. president Richard Nixon. The popular media therefore dubbed this visit "Ping Pong Diplomacy".
• At the 1936 World Championships contested in Prague, two defensive players took over an hour to contest one point.The entire match lasted over four hours.
• A man in Hawaii has invented a three-player table for table tennis, calling it Tri-Pong.
• Comedian George Carlin once noted in a stand-up routine that all racquet sports are derivatives of Ping Pong: for instance, tennis is "Ping Pong played while standing on the table."
  

Interesting, no? Well, I thought so. Anyway, I enjoy that Spokeo’s main piece of "furniture" is our ping pong table, and just like a game of ping pong, Spokeo is focused, bounding ideas off of each other and quickly approaching the launch of Spokeo 4. Go Team!

Cheers,

Katie

I hope you all have been enjoying the holiday season thus far. I just realized that Christmas is two weeks away, and that I haven’t even begun Christmas shopping yet. I probably should get on that… However, I have been on top of decorating for the holiday season. There’s nothing like the fresh smell of Christmas trees, the festive glow of Christmas lights, or the scent of gingerbread baking in the oven. I’m getting all warm and tingly inside just thinking about it.

If you couldn’t tell, I really enjoy the holiday season. I’m trying to spread my joy in our office by decorating the place a little bit. Spokeo has recently relocated, and our new office has way too many bare, white walls at the moment. I was pleasantly surprised to see poinsettias around the office this morning (courtesy of one of our awesome engineers, Eric), but that is not enough for me. See below:

We dubbed one of our office plants our official Christmas tree. Also, I must give props to Nathalie for being equally enthused about decorating and helping me out!

I didn’t go too crazy with the decorating, that’s not my style, but I think it’s nice to show a little holiday cheer through decorating. Don’t you?

Cheers,

Katie