Boardmad…still mad for it !

Staff Surveys

Hmmph…secretly what everyone believes?!

Social disorders

Two of my favourite subjects borg’d into one. Social Media and Data Visualisation…and yes I appear to be firmly in the heart of this so I’m kind of a mess :0)

The office has now (in it’s dubious wisdom) decided to block xkcd.com….my epitaph for a site that keeps me laughing every single day

Given the recent conversations in the office and our amusingly exotic mix of technologies one comes across during a brief review of even a small part of the architecture I’m responsible for this post really does make me laff (inside I’m crying)….sob!

Apparently Scott Kurtz (author of PVP Online) didn’t think this was much of a strip and kind of just tossed it out there. It’s one of the mysteries of ‘what makes funny’ – I nearly laughed my morning latte down my nose.

Think it’s as much to do with the attachment I have to the characters in this strip I’ve followed for a long time now, Skull’s naivety, Cole’s cynicism and world-weary realism and of course…well it’s a gag on Star Wars. Why wouldn’t you love it?

Dilb’s new supervisor – love the ‘udder trousers’

Rams in the north of england fitted with harnesses and dyed packs to indicate which of the ewes in their flock have been serviced have been getting ‘bored’ and turning on one another in what can only be described as an ovine gay frenzy !

Gives an entirely new meaning to ‘getting fleeced’

“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.”

Or….alternatively you could just grab a buddy and amid the hand-wringing, woe is us media frenzy infront of Lehman Brothers snog the crap out of your buddy on live US TV….good job guys. Made me laugh in the midst of a tough day.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/16/cnn_broadcast/

When Tammy Jean (40) married Michael in Texas in 2002 little did she know that Michael (56) had a secret.

Michael was an alcoholic.

Not an ordinary alcoholic but an alcoholic who liked to take his liquor….well, rectally.

The Texan machine shop operator couldn’t ingest alcohol by mouth (apparently due to painful medical problems with his throat) so instead elected to receive his favourite beverage via enema.

Essentially the resultant effect was the same, however when the rest of us have had enough we simply stop drinking (or pass out), however when Michael had had enough (and subsequently passed out), the alcohol remaining in his rectal cavity continued to be absorbed.

Rather than dissuade Michael from ‘drinking’, Tammy assisted him in his pursuits… by supplying (in May 2004) not one but two 1.5 litre bottles of Sherry.

Michael was in for one hell of a party! More than 100 fluid ounces of sweet, sweet sherry….right up your old address!

Tammy performed her marital duties admirably, and ‘administered’ to her husbands every need. Unfortunately, when she awoke the next morning Michael was dead in the bed beside her.

A subsequent autopsy found that Michaels blood alcohol level was (wait for it..!!) 0.47% … 6 times the legal intoxication limit in Texas.