Category
Silly
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01.06.07Phone HellYears ago, I had a webcam on this site, which was trained on me during various hours of the day - ah, such heady days of being young(ish), innocent(ish) and not minding sharing your bad hair days with the world. Anyway, I recently re-discovered a little animation I made with a series of cam images taken while I was on the phone on hold to a call centre somewhere. Thought I'd post it here again. The crappy resolution was the result (I assume) of trying to compress the file so that it downloaded quickly on 56.6kbps. Of course, these days it'd have ...
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12.04.06It’s attacking her! Get off! Get it off her!You know, I can think of few things more guaranteed to send people into panic attacks than walking down the street with this thing strapped to you. [bigger] Having said that, if you're batty about bats, it might be right up your alley.
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11.22.06Dunk MugSpotted this new Dunk Mug product - apparently one of the hot items (no pun intended) for Christmas this year. Is it just me, or are there some major flaws in the product design? For example, it seems to work beautifully for large, round flat biscuits as illustrated, but it'd be rubbish for any biscuit NOT fitting that description. So, digestives, great. But custard creams? Garibaldi? Nice biscuits? Shortbread fingers? Notsomuch. Also, anything involving chocolate would surely suffer the proximity of hot beverage, wouldn't it? And the last thing you want is melted Fingers. Plus, no drinking with your left hand, unless you ...
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11.17.06OMG, they killed the dev serverAs Simon writes about on his Agile In Action blog, the dev team here have now got little magnetic South-Park-esque avatars of each developer which can be used as placeholders on the big planning boards. And today I, as the product owner, got one, too. The slightly worrying thing is that it's uncannily accurate. Don't you think?
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10.24.06Lego Kiss-ChaseUpdate: Removed embedded video because it caused the page to slow to a crawl. Sorry! Lego Brick Kiss-Chase on Vimeo. Remember the chasing game you used to play as kids, where the girls would run after the boys (or vice versa) and try to kiss them? Well, apparently it's popular with lego bricks, too.
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02.08.06Notice to employeesI simply couldn't resist asking this barista to model the little reminders stuck to the cashdesk. In other news, I'm going to be at a Web 2.0 workshop/conference thing all day today, despite having gallons of unspeakableness lodged behind my face. Oh, did I mention that the Be My Anti Valentine (VD) cards are back? Going well, too - several thousand cards sent this week alone...
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04.25.05Cat-a-rooA bit of light relief: this made me laugh out loud. There's no way our Pickle would ever let us do that - although she spends much of her day asleep, she's got an invisible forcefield around her while sleeping, which, if broached, causes her to emit a quizzical "mmmmmbrp?" [link c/o Pete]
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03.28.05No wire hangers EVER!!Is your mother Joan Crawford?
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03.01.05WonderingNow, I'm no linguist, and my grasp of Latin is shaky at best, but as I woke up this morning over a mug of tea, I found myself wondering whether pr0n production companies have mottos, in the style of MGM'sArs Gratia Artis - Art for Art's Sake...because if so, then surely the logical contender would be the properly conjugated (no pun intended) form of:Copulum Gratia Copulis - Fucks for Fuck's SakeNo? Perhaps it sounds better to a British ear, where the phrase "for fuck's sake" signals exasperation, in the same way as "Turn that bleeding radio off for Christ's sake, before ...
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11.21.04Communication skills c/o Ze FrankThe indomitable Ze Frank shares how he uses punctuation to surreptitiously get his true message across to asshats. Reading some of my communications through this filter makes for some interesting reading! :)
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