Author: BCU Girl

JetBlue, notoriously affordable airline company and purveyor of awesome commercials is back with their totally awesome “All You can Jet” package, offering unlimited flights for an entire month starting September 7th for a mere $699 (or $499 if you don’t mind not flying on Friday or Sunday). Since the summer’s winding down (although by our count it owes San Diego an extra couple months AT LEAST), we thought we’d give you an awesome itinerary for the month so you can close out your summer in style ! So turn off your cell phone, grab your favorite travel partner (or go solo if you wanna pick up someone fun on the way ;) !) and book your flights!

1) Portland, Oregon

Start off slow in the relaxing city of Portland, Oregon. It’s been voted one of the top 3 best beer towns in the US (notice who’s number one, beeyyyaaaatch), and has an awesome music culture too. Even if you don’t have a Mario brothers mustache or a fixed-gear bike, you’ll find something to do in this town, whether it be hitting the awesome thrift stores or heading out a few miles from town for some of the most beautiful natural wonders in the region.

2) New York City, New York

Bars are open till four, but it’s hot and humid as hell during the day, so enjoy the nightlife, catch a Broadway show if you’re into that, and sightsee for a few days. Then get packing, cause it’s time to get crazy.

3) Cancun, Mexico

A hot spot for most college kids on the west coast, there is no shortage of party opportunities in the beach town of Mexico. Enjoy all-night parties and all day beach lounging in this picturesque town where there is no I in party.

4) San Juan, Puerto Rico

See those hammocks? They’re waiting for you, a piña colada, and your favorite book. Chill out and let your week-long sleep-deprived body get back to its normal pH levels. Do some hiking or take one of the dozens of adventure tours available and let your body get back to nature.

this is home for me. muwhahahaha.

5) Home

Sure it might take you a couple flights to get back to home base, but spend that time on the über-comfy JetBlue remembering that you DO have a job, that you DO have friends and family, and you DO have bills and chores. The long flight home will give you a chance to get back into the groove of real life before your bombarded by responsibilities at your front door. Hope you have an awesome month with JetBlue’s All You Can Jet package, and be safe!

images courtesy of studentsoftheworld.com, inetours.com, caribbeanmag.com, sjcourtyard.com, and flickr, respectively.

Author: BCU Girl

In the rat race of life we are often forced to make sacrifices: style for comfort, convenience for price, taste for not-dying-of-fat-cancer… it can all be pretty depressing when you really think about it.

However, the makers of Porsche understand your plight to have it all, though, and have finally combined two usually mutually-exclusive adjectives: sexy and ecologically friendly. With their new Spyder 918 Hybrid, they’ve turned what was previously though to only be a conceptual car into a living, breathing, 0 to 62 in 3.2 seconds monster machine that also likes flowers and cares about global warming! How pleasant, right?

Oh, I seem to have forgotten one miniscule point- it costs about $650 grand. Whatta steal!

Geek out some more at Geekologie.

Author: BCU Girl

If you’d asked me as a kid what the world would be like in 2010, I’d have been like, “watch that documentary the Jetsons. It explains everything.” Fast forward 15 years and here I sit, and my computer still isn’t a hologram and I don’t have a robot maid and my car still drives on the stupid boring road. Talk about disappointment.

NOT FOR LONG.

According to the Huffington Post, a company called Terrafugia has just released the first “roadable aircraft” which is tech-jargon for a FREAKING FLYING CAR, you guys. Mind you the thing looks like a rascal with wings, or some toy plane from Thomas the Tank Engine, but it’s still a car, that fits in your garage, has foldable wings, and ALSO FLIES. Terrafugia’s “Transition” craft was just awarded the ability to be flown under a “light sport” designation, which would require the pilot only 20 hours of pilot school flight time.

The only downside? The drunk guy who’s like, “C’mon bros I can get us to *hiccup* Vegas in like an houuurrr” and then crashes his FLYING CAR into the Luxor pyramid.

Author: BCU Girl

You can buy some weird-ass junk on eBay these days. 1980s Mariah Carey tapes, someone’s bloody mattress,  or even Sharon Osbourne’s breast implants. You know, just in case you’re an avid collector of menopausal wife-of-a-rock-star celebrity plastic surgery accessories, it’s really a priceless set.

However, eBay has recently acquired some totally rad new merch. In fact, rad isn’t nearly a strong enough word. I’d go with phenomenal, or prodigious.

What is this fantastic new eBay auction for, you ask? Oh I DON’T KNOW, maybe ACTUAL WORKING BIKES FROM THE MOVIE TRON???

That’s right. 5 fully functional, exact replicas of the bikes from the 1982 sci-fi film starring Jeff Bridges are going for sale by Parker Brothers Choppers in Melbourne, Florida, for the low, low “Buy it Now” price of $35,000.

Just in time for this years release of TRON: Legacy, you’ll get a bike that, according to the manufacturers, “will make motorcycles as you now know them seem like antiques on the road.” DUH.

If you consider yourself a true TRON fan, this purchase is a necessity. What else are you gonna spend that 35 grand on? Paying off credit card debt? Putting a down payment on a home? Or being able to reenact scenes from a film where a hacker fights for his life, gladiator-style, INSIDE THE INTERNET?

I think the choice is clear.

Thanks, Gizmodo, for the info!

Author: BCU Girl

Silly New York mass transit system sign creator, you obviously haven’t been following internet trends, have you? I will assume you also don’t know what LOL, LMAO, WTF, SMH is, but that’s precisely what I’m thinking about you.

However, perhaps I’m wrong. Maybe you know exactly what I’m talking about, and this whole “change the V train to the M train” was all an elaborate ruse to get attention drawn to the New York subway system. Or maybe it’s just a hidden message to let people know how you really feel about your job. Or maybe you know the plight of the public trying to get anywhere on a New York subway over the weekend.

But I’m sticking to my guns. I bet you had no idea.