Calling all Crabs
Wednesday February 24th 2010
Well, we're battening down the hatches for a major heatwave - just in time for my birthday. Oh joy! Temperatures are expected to range between 37° and 42° C until Sunday, after which they'll drop down to a merely hellish 36° for a few days. I love this city but I hate this weather.
My work email account keeps getting spammed by the "Ruby Royale" online casino. Some strange part of my brain continually misinterprets this as "Ruby Rose", so every morning when I come in and start sorting through the spam I get a sudden jolt of irrational excitement before sanity kicks back in. Damn spammers.
Finally I know it's neither new or clever to make fun of Emos, but sometimes they make it so damn easy!
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File under: My Oh So Amazing Life
Pearls Before Swine
Monday February 22nd 2010
Went out and got the Swine Flu shot today. The Government's subsidising it to build up herd immunity, so I figured I'd better pitch in and do my bit. I feel a bit ill now, but that could just be because I went out and walked around the city for a few hours afterwards taking photos in the blazing sun (the results are up on my Flickr account).
On another subject entirely I (for some reason) was trying to remember the lyrics of TISM's Strictly Loungeroom. There was one bit I couldn't remember so I looked online. As usual the only lyrics available seem to have been transcribed by drunken lemurs, so I figured I'd better correct the situation....
Strictly Loungeroom
If your Luke Perry sideburns just won't grow; that's dancin!
If you can't seem to dress like they do in Cosmo; that's dancin!
You admit that you don't like the taste of alcohol,
If you think that mull was a Paul McCartney song,
If you bough Stussy a month too late; that's dancin!
If your parents are together and you don't hate 'em; that's dancin!
If you always bought a ticket for the train,
If you think that graffiti all looks the same,
Don't give us none of your aggravation,
We've had it with your discipline,
Saturday night's alright for fighting,
'Cept when you have to stay in,
Strictly loungeroom!
Strictly loungeroom!
Then you know it's time to get the razor blades out; that's dancin!
Step into that noose and swing; that's dancin!
When it's Saturday night and you're all by yourself,
Watching reruns of That's Dancing,
Don't give us none of your aggravation,
We've had it with your discipline,
Saturday night's alright for fighting,
'Cept when you have to stay in,
Strictly loungeroom!
Strictly loungeroom!
Strictly loungeroom!
Strictly loungeroom! Yeah!
That's dancin', yeah!
That's dancin', yeah!
There's a party going on at the local church hall,
You know people going, all you gotta do is call,
Leave your empty room get out, seize the day,
But you put on ABC and foxtrot your chance away...
Enough said.
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File under: Musical Snobbery
Introverts are Coming Out
Thursday February 18th 2010
Continuing the theme of outing myself as an introvert from a few weeks back, a commenter on Boing Boing (you know, Boing Boing? You don't? What's wrong with you!) has happened to provide a link to the following article - which although it seems a little harsh on extroverts (most of my friends are extroverts and are nowhere near as annoying as the article suggests ;) is an excellent overview on the subject...
The Atlantic - Caring for your Introvert
As the Sirius Cybernetics Electro-Sensa-Book Division would say, Read and Enjoy!
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File under: More Geeky Than Usual
I Hate Cwazy People!
Tuesday February 16th 2010
About 12:30 today one of our guys at the office received a rather confusing phone call about a shipping container and where to email the appropriate documentation to. Not sure what it was about (but assuming it might be something to do with one of the boss's side projects) he provided our support email address.
Shortly thereafter we received a shipping docket for a company we've never heard of. Realising that the initial phone call was a wrong number we emailed them back. The following emails illustrate the fun and games that ensued...
(All names and phone numbers have been changed to protect the innocent...)
Hi Jan,
Looks like you're looking for Polecat Patios [website address]. It's not us.
Kind Regards
Hello,
I called them and they asked me to send all the docs to your email address.
Can you please forward all the docs to them?
Thanks & Regards
Jan,
You didn't actually call them at all, you called us (presumably you dialled the wrong number) and the person you spoke to - unsure about what the call was concerned with - provided our support email address.
We have never had any dealings with Polecat Pations and prior to Googling their business name today have never even heard of them.
I'd suggest it would be better if you determined the correct contact details and resent the email from your end, rather than them receiving their documents via a random third party company they have never even heard of.
Kind Regards
Hi,
I called 555 826 533 and this is the number from the white page for POLECAT PATIOS. And the staff asked me to email all the docs for you.
If 555 826 533 is your company's telephone number then it is the mistake from the white page.
Thanks & Regards
Jan,
Our number is 555 826 833. You must have hit the 8 rather than the 5 when dialling. I was personally sitting next to the person who received your initial call and who was quite confused at the mention of a shipping container.
Kind regards
I am pretty sure the number I called is the one from the white page. Anyway I will call the below number again. Please disregard all the docs if they are not for you.
Regards
Oh yes. It's much more likely that sunspots or something caused the Telstra exchange to connect you to the wrong number that you simply misdialed a single digit. Sheeze!
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File under: Workin` for the Man
