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Aug
31
He’s a nice boy he is
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At work we deal a lot with scientists in our research support roles, one in particular who I’ll call Eric is a retired chemistry teacher, he now works for us and is counting the days until he retires again. Eric is from Malaysia and speaks very fast. You have to really pay attention to figure out what he is saying. I pity those chemistry students he used to teach.
One of the other guys in my department, Frank, told me that a few days ago Eric had come up to him and told him he was “A nice man, a sweet man,” Frank was a bit put out.
“I’m sure he was just being friendly and he meant nothing by it. He was just commenting on your disposition.”
Earlier this week we were in the locker room changing into scrubs and chewing the fat. Eric walks in just as Frank takes off his top.
“Frank, you got nice body, nice muscles,” Eric said.
The never seen anyone gets such a deep shade of red so quickly.
“I’m sure he is just being his jovial self and meant nothing by it,” I said.
Then yesterday Frank and are sitting at our computers, Eric walks in and makes himself some green tea. He than stands behind us and I see Frank roll his eyes.
“Mik, Mik, that’s a nice tee-shirt you wearing,” Eric says, then then stands there rubbing my shoulder, “Nice tee-shirt.”
When he leaves, Frank gives a sigh of relief and tells me he is glad Eric didn’t do that to him because he couldn’t take three times in a row.
Everyone else is cracking up and I say, “He is just being his jovial outgoing self and didn’t mean anything by it, DID HE?“
Aug
30
Win a Darth Vader USB drive at Enwikopedia
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Enwikopedia is having a contest, link to them and get a chance to be entered into a cool contest and win a USB flash drive shaped like Darth Vader from Star Wars (I didn’t really need to mention where he is from did I?)
Aug
30
The mail girl goneth and BBC News tongue piercing article
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Well I saw the mail girl pushing her mail cart into the building it was a different girl than yesterday, I hope I didn’t scare her off!
We have several people in the mail dept. so maybe they take turns, oops.
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On the BBC News site they have an article about the dangers of tongue piercings. Never had the urge to have anything like that done, daughter has it done. I think it makes people talk funny, being a Brit I certainly don’t need anything else to add to my accent!
BBC News Tongue Piercing article
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Aug
29
Are you saying I am short
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I was walking out the door at work, the mail girl was coming in pushing a cart of mail. She held the door open for me and beckoned me through,
“I’m bigger than you, ” she said.
I stepped through and held the door for her as she pushed the cart through I asked, “Are you saying I am short?”
“Er, no, I meant I’m wider,” she said getting flustered.
“Don’t be down on yourself you’re not that wide.”
“Um, I er,” she was obviously not totally aware I was being facetious.
I better check tomorrow she realized I was joking with her.
Aug
29
BBC News had an article about the possibility of a suit that would allow the user to have Spider-man abilities. Climbing up buildings and be able to hang upside down suspended from the building.
Apparently the idea is based on spiders and geckos that have tiny hairs on their appendages that allow them to climb vertical surfaces. Geckos can apparently hold hundred times their own body weight.
Using a similar technology they reckon they may one day have the ability to allow a person to climb walls, one use mentioned is window cleaning on skyscrapers!
The problem is being able to have a technology able not to only to allow a man to stick to the wall and hold his own weight but to be able to remove his limbs and then reapply them and climb.
BBC News article spider-man suit.
Be interesting to see if this ever becomes a reality. It is going to have to be awesome to be able to allow someone to scale a building to clean windows.
Aug
29
The world’s most curious company.
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“…the world’s most curious company.”
They are a global market research company, if you need market research and consumer feedback for your product or company they have the expertise to handle this for you. If you’re global or market your products globally they can run global studies for you with their dedicated research specialists.
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Aug
28
Hear ye hear ye a cool contest
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Well, who doesn’t like a contest, an easy to enter contest at that. Charlotte Web Design is having a contest. Did I mention a contest?
Okay we got that!
All you have to do to get an entry into the thingy is do a short post and link to their site. Contest deadline is September 22 2007 and is open to US residents.
What?
Prizes, oh yes.
The lucky winner gets to choose from:
Apple iPod 5G
Microsoft Xbox 360 Console
Viewsonic Q10IWB black LCD 19″ monitor.
What cool prizes, I think I shall enter, oh, I just did!
Link to contest post: Contest post link
Aug
27
Life begins at 40 something else starts at 41
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I am upstairs feeding Max the rabbit, he is busy trying to tear my arm off to get the handful of hay I am trying to get in his cage.
Carolyn is downstairs and calls up for me to bring something down for her.
“I’ll be right down dear, ” I shout as I close up the cage. I get down the two flights of stairs and standing at the bottom realize my hands are empty.
Dang. They say life begins at 40, well, the dementia must start at 41!
I cannot for the life of me remember what the wife asked me to bring literally seconds before. I walk into the kitchen to ask her, wondering why there is a bra laying across the microwave, she has her back to me. I start to say something and she turns around, pulls up her top, and I stop in my tracks and the words explode from my mouth;
“UNFETTERED BOOBAGE!”
We both just crack up laughing and I fall into her arms. Ten years of marriage and she still gets me every time, hot, flushed and grinning like a loon.
“What did you ask me get?”
“I’ve no idea,” she answers.
I guess at 49 the memory don’t get any better.
