>Letters to the Editor #3

Posted on 17 April, 2009 by jb

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If you’re a sports team, the general idea appears to be that you win almost all of your home games and then try and pick up some points away.

Mainz 05, the local Second Division (and eternal First Division hopefuls) football/soccer team is doing it differently.

They’ve decided not to win ANY home games – 2 draws from the last 6 home games. Hello? – and STILL qualify for promotion.

They’re either reinventing the wheel or they’re seriously fucking up.

Someone wrote a letter to the local newspaper:

“Not that I’m incenting anyone to criminal activity, but wouldn’t it be a good idea if the Bruchweg pitch could – at least until the end of the season – be declared unplayable, thus avoiding the home game curse?

Just an idea”

Not that it’ll get published, of course.

Way too subtle…..

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>Bloody tourists…

Posted on 8 April, 2009 by jb

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>A new reader writes…..

Posted on 7 April, 2009 by jb

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SIR – As a recent subscriber to your newspaper, I find that you are a bunch of insufferable know-alls, and there is nothing worse than a know-all who is sometimes right.

A.F. Bradley
Coupeville, Washington

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>You did what….?

Posted on 6 April, 2009 by jb

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>Decisions, decisions…..

Posted on 5 April, 2009 by jb

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>Don’t ask me (about Reorganisation)

Posted on 4 April, 2009 by jb

>http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3013257&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
powerlinerflyers from wes johnson on Vimeo.

Why does this remind me of every management reorganisation project I’ve ever ben involved with?

Much fluttering around, temporary absences and then everyone ends back where there were, with the higher management levels power lines becoming more densly populated with each iteration.

As a last resort, the massive “pursuing other options outside the company” at lower levels and then the screen goes blank.

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>Take one C120 cassette tape….

Posted on 2 April, 2009 by jb

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Remember those C120 cassette tapes?

The tape was so thin that they’d unravel inside your cassette radio even BEFORE you’d pushed the play button.

Rip it all out and sling it out of the window to join the millions of others draped across the greenery on the motorway verge.

Someone‘s got a better idea….

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>Letters to the Editor #1

Posted on 1 April, 2009 by jb

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SIR – Although the taste is rather similar, my Church’s shoes have held out after 25 years of hard usage, while the average hamburger survives for less than five minutes. Readjusting your daily chart on the amount of water required to produce various goods to a daily-utility scale gives me 1.6 litres for my shoes and 4.3 million litres for the hamburger. Pass the ketchup.

Simon Goodman
Senior scientist
Merck-Serono research and development
Darmstadt, Germany

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>This I need – the Polar Clock

Posted on 1 April, 2009 by jb

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This is like watching paint dry…..

But if you’re so inclined – http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/polarclock/

Windows/MacOSX/Mac widget.

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>"You seem a little agitated…."

Posted on 31 March, 2009 by jb

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…said Mr Homeland Security.

Agitated? Of course I’m bloody agitated.

I’ve checked in in Los Angeles, taken my bags to the TSA screening point, been shouted at because I’ve followed the signs to the (non-existent) screening point for Lufthansa passengers, watched my bag be piled on a great heap that appears to have a non-scanned hand search in its future, questioned the logic of same, got the evil eye (but my bag machine-scanned and then hand-searched for my pains), gone through security, where a softly-spoken (for an American) TSA operative is chanting inaudible instructions that no-one can hear, been told to move all my stuff from one conveyor belt to the other (10 meter distant) conveyor belt and then back again, been selected for a hand search (those 180 grams of titanium in Leg 2.0 do it every time…) and then got severely bollocked for expressing a wish to be able to maintain visual contact with my possessions.

Agitated?

Too bloody right I’m agitated.

At least the TSA chappy had the decency to admit that it’s all a sham and it does nothing to stop terrorists.

At least that….

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