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  1. Job Application

    April 14, 2005 by dafyd

    Hah – this is soooo funny… Jeremy has posted this actual job application a 17 year old boy submitted at a McDonald’s fast-food “restaurant” in Florida:

    NAME: Greg Bulmash
    SEX: Not yet. Still waiting for the right person.
    DESIRED POSITION: Company’s President or Vice President. But seriously, whatever’s available. If I was in a position to be picky, I wouldn’t be applying here in the first place.
    DESIRED SALARY: $185,000 a year plus stock options and a Michael Ovitz style severance package. If that’s not possible, make an offer and we can haggle.
    EDUCATION: Yes. LAST POSITION HELD: Target for middle management hostility.
    SALARY: Less than I’m worth.
    MOST NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT: My incredible collection of stolen pens and post-it notes.
    REASON FOR LEAVING: It sucked.
    HOURS AVAILABLE TO WORK: Any.
    PREFERRED HOURS: 1:30-3:30 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
    DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL SKILLS?: Yes, but they’re >better suited to a more intimate environment.
    MAY WE CONTACT YOUR CURRENT EMPLOYER?: If I had one, would I be here?
    DO YOU HAVE ANY PHYSICAL CONDITIONS THAT WOULD PROHIBIT YOU FROM LIFTING UP TO 50 LBS?: Of what?
    DO YOU HAVE A CAR?: I think the more appropriate question here would be “Do you have a car that runs?”
    HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY SPECIAL AWARDS OR RECOGNITION?: I may already be a winner of the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes.
    DO YOU SMOKE?: On the job no, on my breaks yes.
    WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE DOING IN FIVE YEARS?: Living in the Bahamas with a fabulously wealthy dumb sexy blonde super model who thinks I’m the greatest thing since sliced bread. Actually, I’d like to be doing that now.
    DO YOU CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE IS TRUE AND COMPLETE TO THE BEST OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE?: Yes. Absolutely.
    SIGN HERE: Aries

    Apparently, they hired him because he was so honest and funny!

    Also coming soon to a blog near you:

    The Amazing eBay Challenge

    From the fevered minds of Rob and Markiss… sounds like fun!


  2. Mini brass plate

    April 13, 2005 by dafyd

    David doesn’t like the adverts for the McDonald’s 99p pound saver menu thingy.

    I think they’re great. Buy a Cheeseburger for a pound and get a free mini brass plate. In the shape of a penny. Fantastic.

    Or buy something else for £1 (I can’t think of anything else at the moment) and get a free token to use in a wishing well of your choice. Who knows – make the right wish in the aforementioned well and you could win a holiday home. Or Schloss Neuschwanstein. (That’s the bit David really doesn’t like).

    But the best bit – and this is what I really like about the adverts on the tellybox – is the voiceover chappy. He has a really bizarre accent – sometimes German, sometimes Welsh. Weird.

    Watch it.


  3. Ch-ch-changes – and Pope betting

    April 12, 2005 by dafyd

    W00t. I’ve finally found a nice way to incorporate the linkdump posts (“clicky links”) into the main blog. I reckon it looks OK, but I will keep working on it – it still doesn’t look quite how I want it, and no doubt someone will complain that it’s too small or too blue or too something.

    Anyway. That’s that.

    Feel like placing a bet on who the new Pope will be? BBC News is running a story about Paddy Power‘s PopeBetting.com site… I’m not too sure I approve of the concept, but the site itself has some interesting history and trivia and brief biographies of the “favourites”. They’re also taking bets on what his papal name will be – at the moment Benedict seems to be favourite at 3-1.


  4. And now we join…

    April 9, 2005 by dafyd

    BBC Radio 4I can exclusively reveal on this blog that BBC Radio 4 has invented a time machine.

    Yes, that’s right – if you are listening at the right time, you magically get transported back an hour…

    Listen to the Midnight News at, surprise surprise, midnight. Then the Book of the Week. Then Sailing By and try not to go to sleep during the Shipping Forecast. Then the National Anthem. “And now we join our colleagues at the World Service”…

    …with the Midnight News again!

    How strange. Yes, I know – the World Service works on GMT while Radio 4 works on BST… but all the same, I was a little shocked when I was just dozing off last night to find that I had a chance to relive the last hour!

    Thank you Radio 4.

    Oh – I’ve not tried waking up at 5.30 (or 4.30) to see if I lose an hour when Radio 4 starts back up again. I must do, I guess.


  5. Bizarre Chocolate

    April 7, 2005 by dafyd

    Peanut Butter Smarties BarIt turns out that in Japan there is a limited edition Green Tea-flavoured Kit Kat. And in Australia they have a Mars Lava Bar (a Mars Bar with orange filling). And Canada has an After Eight Bar. How strange. I’d love to try the USA’s Triple Chocolate Kit Kat (incidentally, the “customer from Nottingham” on that product page isn’t me … in case there was any confusion!). Not too sure about the Peanut Butter Smarties Bar, though.

    I’ve been posting quite a bit on my linkdump recently, but I still haven’t found a suitable way of incorporating it into this page…

    Anyway, there’s some interesting stuff there, such as Alistair Campbell’s blog (possibly) and a Pi Pie.


  6. April Fools

    April 5, 2005 by dafyd

    OK, so I was away on April 1st, but I’ve been catching up… so I thought I’d do a quick round-up of my favourite online (or, in some cases, not) pranks from Friday:

    1. Most definitely in first place, Google launched their own soft drink brand: GoogleGulp. It’s a “limited release beta product“, “available to anyone who turns in a used Google Gulp bottle cap at any local retailer. If you don’t have any Gulp caps, ask a friend to give you one.” An obvious spoof of how they spread GMail… And will it ever come out of beta (a lot of Google software seems to stay in beta for a long time – or forever)? “Man, if you pressure us, you just drive us away. We’ll commit when we’re ready, okay? Besides, what’s so great about taking things out of beta? It ruins all the romance, the challenge, the possibilities, the right to explore.

    2. Radio 4′s Today programme ran an “awesome story”* about Tom Parker-Bowles becoming second-in-line to the throne as a result of an obscure 19th Century law governing succession in the Royal family.

    3. BMW (as every year) took out a full-page advert in the Times about how they have found a way to combat an EU regulation where right-hand drive cars cannot be driven in left-hand-drive countries from 2007 – by removing the steering wheel from the car.

    4. GMTV ran a story about a farmer who has discovered how to “make his cows produce fruit-flavoured milk – no additives, no sugar – straight from the cow.”

    5. Emperor penguins looked up in awe on Friday as Tokyo’s main zoo unveiled its latest addition – a giant penguin said to be suspiciously close in height and weight to a human. The press release – which stressed the newly discovered animal would be unveiled on April 1 – said the giant penguin’s favourite food was ‘white fish meat with soy sauce.’

    6. The Register ran a story about Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, becoming the CEO of Ikea… “For Jobs, who has no furniture at all in his Palo Alto house, it’s an opportunity to reinvent an industry once again.

    And finally, the BBC has a list of 10 stories that could have been April Fools but weren’t…

    *Not my words…


  7. Stuff to do

    April 4, 2005 by dafyd

    So, back from France…

    I’ve been writing blog entries all day (on and off), but nothing is actually ready to post at the moment. Weird. Anyway, it’s all coming soon – expect a huge rush of posts in the next couple of days… I have a list of things to talk about blu-tacked to the side of my monitor!

    In the meantime, I’ve stumbled across ChezJones.net. Scarily similar site name to mine, that’s all.

    And Bill Bryson (Notes From a Small Island etc) is the new chancellor of the University of Durham. But for more about that I’ll point you to David and Durham21.


  8. Paris, here I come

    March 29, 2005 by dafyd

    Off to Paris tomorrow, to see ma grande-mère. I’m looking forward to it… but I won’t be blogging for a while.

    Unless I find an internet café in Paris – perfectly possible, I suppose (I’ve done it before) – but I don’t won’t to have to drag my mum around while I’m there. We’ll see… if I blog, I blog. Or, as someone once said, “Que sera, sera”. See what I did there? Linked the blogging back into the French. Cunning, n’est-ce pas?


  9. But is it art?

    March 24, 2005 by dafyd

    Heh, came across this article today via Kottke and GoogleNews:

    Notorious British graffiti artist Banksy has been decorating New York city galleries with his own distinctive works of art.

    He managed to hang his work next to classic pieces at four of the city’s most esteemed institutions, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the American Museum of Natural History.

    The surreptitious installations were stuck to the walls with adhesive, complete with a name plaque and explanation.

    [...]

    Museum officials said they had found paintings of a woman wearing a gas mask, a colonial-era military officer holding a spray-paint can with anti-war graffiti in the background, a can of Tesco value tomato soup and a glass-encased beetle equipped with fighter jet wings, missiles and a satellite dish.

    (The Scotsman/PA, 24iii5)

    Have a look at the pictures of these four ‘installations’ at Wooster Collective – I love the Andy Warhol-esque Tesco Value Soup Can.

    It turns out that this isn’t Banksy’s first brush with infamy: last year, he installed a gangsta rat in the Natural History Museum in London…

    The graffiti artist Banksy has managed to smuggle in his latest work, a dead rat in a glass-fronted box, into the Natural History Museum where it was exhibited on a wall for several hours.

    Staff did not notice that the rat was out of place amid the museum’s usual fare of dinosaur bones and artefact from the animal kingdom.

    The rat was stuffed and clad in wraparound sunglasses, scaled down to fit the top of its head, a rucksack on its back, and with a microphone in one paw.

    A miniature spraycan sits at the departed rodent’s feet, while above it is sprayed in graffiti-style lettering “our time will come”.

    The piece called “Banksus Militus Ratus” was displayed with a text that said the common sewer rat had some remarkable new characteristics.

    “Attributed to an increase in junk food waste, ambient radiation and hardcore urban rap music these creatures have evolved at an unprecedented rate.”

    It quotes a bogus university professor as saying: “You can laugh now … but one day they may be in charge.”

    (The Guardian, 8v4)

    So – in answer to my question in the title to this post… I have absolutely no idea. But I like it!

    Oh, on a completely different note (hopefully), check out Claire’s new site


  10. What the British do…

    March 23, 2005 by dafyd

    …in their spare time, according to the French:

    Eurostar advert showing streakers on a football field

    Yes. I do that. Every weekend. Obviously.

    (Thanks to Petite for spotting the advert…)

    Looks like I’m going to visit my grandmother in Paris next week – we leave on the Wednesday (the 26th ish) and get back on the Sunday (the 3rd – so Wednesday can’t be the 26th. Oh well. I can’t be bothered to alt-tab into Outlook to check the calendar.)

    Any requests for French delicacies?

    Oh – almost forgot: anyone fancy applying for middle manager positions at MI5?