Posts Tagged ‘guinness’

Arthur’s Day is September 24th

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Thursday Arthur Guinness would have celebrating his 250th birthday. I was just checking out an email from Guinness and it appears they will have a live gig in Direct TV live from Dublin. I am not sure what time it will be on so if you know post a comment. Click the Guinness image to check out all the cool stuff they have going on at the Guinness website. The video shorts are pretty fun to watch. Man is Bob Geldof getting old! I think that was him anyway?

Make sure you raise your pint of Guinness to the man that started it all on Thursday!

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Best iPhone App Ever!

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

I have not downloaded any new iPhone app is a long time. But Guinness just released a new app so I couldn’t refuse. What better way to find the closest pint of Guinness than to pull out your iPhone and fire this app up. I am going out to LA for a week so I will get to test the Guinness app out in a city that I am not familiar with. It should be fun.

Here are some of the features.

Find a Pint and Invite Your Friends
Gives you the name, address, telephone number and directions to over 5,000 pubs that serve Guinness Draught. The App allows you to invite friends from your address book in just 1-touch.

Know Your Pint
Keep your bartender on his toes. This App settles how to pour the perfect pint once and for all. Includes a pint head ruler to make sure every pint is up to official Guinness standards.

The Count Down Has Begun!
September 24th is Arthur’s Day, a celebration over 250 years in the making. Share the universal spirit of Guinness with up-to-date information on festivities throughout the world.

DrinkIQ
Important facts and tips to help you make responsible choices about drinking.

Check out some of the screen shots below.

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Top 5 I Wish Used Social Spark

Monday, May 12th, 2008


I have been looking at the available advertisers on SocialSpark.com over the weekend. There have some good ones but I wish it was better. The model they have is the best out there but I wish they had some specific offer for a handful of companies I like to pimp. If I could hand-pick a few companies I wish used SocialSpark.com these would be them in order of relevance top to bottom.

I am a fully converted Apple fan boy. No doubt about it. I really feel sorry for anyone that is still using a Windows machine. Using an apple is equivalent to watching a move in full HD or BluRay on a 100+ inch display. Using a Windows machine is like watching that same movie on a black and white 13” T.V. It is not even worth watching.

Yes, I like beer. Good beer and I can’t think of another brew other than Guinness (see below) I would like to blog about. I have never seen a beer offer on PPP or Social Spark. I would like to see that change. So New Belgium get off your butts and get some opps coming our way! Fat Tire would be a great beer to promote on Social Spark.

I fell in love with Ireland when I was able to travel there for work a handful of times. If I won the lottery today I would buy a house in Ireland right away. The city of Dublin in an incredible place and there is nothing better than drinking a pint of Guinness and listening to some local music at the pub.

I can’t think of a better state than Colorado. What don’t they have? 350+ days of sunshine a year. The best hiking, camping, skiing/snow boarding, mountain biking and brew. The list goes on and on. There is no reason the state can’t promote themselves by enlisting bloggers.

The best blogging/CMS that there is. If you are not using WordPress as your blogging software then you are missing out big time. The community is just incredible and open source. There is nothing you can’t do with WordPress these days when it comes to web development and programming. There are so many themes and plugins that are free it will make your head spin.

So there you have it my top 5 wish list of advertisers that I wish used Social Spark to help promote their craft.

Sponsored by SocialSpark

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Proposition 317 – Guinness Needs 1,000,000 Signatures

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Now I know you need another day off work! We all do. So go to http://www.proposition317.com/ and sign the Guinness petition. They need 1,000,000 signatures to help make St. Patrick’s day a holiday. After I signed they needed 975,007 more signatures.

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Post back here how many they need after you sign up!

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Basement Pub Updates

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

I picked up some new speaker for the basement a few weeks ago. I have been so busy that I have not had a chance to put them in. I never had surround down in the pub so I pick up a Sony center and a set of front speakers to replace my Bose I have down there now. I still have my two rear speakers in place. Those are Sony as well. I am not a Sony fan at all but the price was right for what I needed. Here is a photo of the two front and center channel.
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I guess I did not pay attention to their size when I bought them from Amazon. They are bigger than I wanted but I guess they will do for now. When I get HD upstairs then I guess I can move them up to the living room. Here are the surround speakers I have in place now. They do a pretty good job for the price.
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Right now the rear left speaker is not all the way to the far left of the back room so I plan to move that. When I get all the speakers place I will get some more photos up.

I have also done a little more design in the basement. Hanging things up here an there. I did this for the Super Bowl party. Here are two photos of the Killian’s sign I moved and a photo of the back wall that you back is to when you are sitting on the long part of the bar.

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If you look at the last photo there you will see a big Guinness banner. It has a big open space to write on. I would love to get my buddy Carter over here to free hand a drawing on that. Carter is a super talented artist and can draw his butt off. Jason could probably do a good job as well but you can’t get that guy out of the house these days even if the house of burning down. Well I guess to get him over to The House of Husar anyway.

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