Author Archives: jb

First job

Posted on 10 July, 2011 by jb

A young family with a 5 year old girl moved into a house next to a vacant lot. One day a construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty lot. The 5 year old naturally took … Continue reading →

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Make your end happy, too….

Posted on 10 July, 2011 by jb
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Hënj

Posted on 5 July, 2011 by jb

From Ikea Hackers

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A day late…..

Posted on 5 July, 2011 by jb

…and a dollar short  

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Theories

Posted on 4 July, 2011 by jb

There’s an urban-legend-in-the-making doing the rounds that the colour of judo belts were so chosen as to allow the impoverished practitioners to die their belts a darker colour the more proficient they become, instead of having to buy a new … Continue reading →

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The modem story

Posted on 4 July, 2011 by jb

Digital natives won’t know what this is about. Back in the early/mid 1990s, a modem board for your PC would cost around $200. You connected it to your phone line and dialed up your ISP,  listening all the time to … Continue reading →

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One is parody. I’m not quite sure which….

Posted on 3 July, 2011 by jb

Bill Maher as always says it best: “New Rule: Stop asking Miss USA contestants if they believe in evolution. It’s not their field. It’s like asking Stephen Hawking if he believes in hair scrunchies. Here’s what they know about: spray … Continue reading →

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Chooks

Posted on 30 June, 2011 by jb
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Those are my remnants at the bottom….

Posted on 30 June, 2011 by jb

  HT to Miss Daisy at Birmingham Daily Photo    

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If this is Boeing quality, I’ll stick with Airbus thanks very much

Posted on 30 June, 2011 by jb

What an appalling graphic. Your eye is automatically drawn to the dominant feature of the chart (the aircraft icon and solid graph area) and you’ll think that very few aircraft accidents happen during landing and take off and that the … Continue reading →

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