Be Excellent To Each Other

One of our accounts team sends out weekly email reminders that include 5 different colours, and 6 other style and font changes within the body.

Its a three paragraph email.

What am I missing?

A 4-litre V8 S Type

has Europe stuck a warship off the coast of Libya to detect and track the people smuggling boats? It might help improve response times. 1200 dead in 2 days in unacceptable. It is staggeringly sad. Get Greece to do it to pay off the debt or something.

I've been doing as little as possible today because frankly screw working so hard you end up dreaming about work at night without getting any kind of recognition for it.

In better news though a recruitment agent connected with me on LinkedIn and I've sent him my CV, so woo.

The ocean is vast and there's a fuckton of shipping on it. Finding smuggling vessels isn't an easy task.

That first part sounds like something from Game of Thrones that the fire lady would say.

To be honest, i'm struggling to see how that metaphor relates yo your cv situation.

I dunno, something about plenty of fish in the sea, and my name is Codd?

That's both very old and also doesn't excuse the ugliness of that email.

It can be as old as it likes, it's still true.

It's true that it's ugly. And it is especially, especially ugly in fluorescent pink.

But there's worse. The font i can't stand above all others is Dakota Handwriting.

If you recognise it you'll start to see it on every lazy menu design, every bit of convenience store POS, billboards, 'hilarious' car stickers...

I did a quick google. Now I cannot unsee it. Argh! My eyes!

People that hate Comic Sans hate fun.

Typeface.

#justsaying

Anyone here know enough about Joomla! and the way that it works, and could help a brother out via PM?

Well that's the maddest thing I have seen for a while;

http://www.magicalexperiments.com/riding-the-dragon/

I know to avoid it like the plague, if that helps?

Yes, unfortunately I don't have any choice in this particular matter

Drones. They need every crew member on our ship to fly drones to find the bastards.

Battery life could be a problem. Maybe little disposable helium balloons with cameras and GPS would be a better option.

..... And Jolly Roger recognition technology, obv.

But what if none of the migrants are called Roger?

This is the second afternoon in a row I've had to listen to two of my elderly colleagues discussing how the recent company pension cuts will affect their final salary lump sum. Completely oblivious to those around them who were hired long after this ridiculously generous pension scheme was scrapped and boohoo how awful that they'll only be getting hundreds of thousands instead of hundreds of thousands and a bit more.

Why not use google earth?

Does it have a generous pension scheme?

not really, but you can fly over the Himalayas.

Well, yes. Regardless of the etiquette, if you took a salary cut you'd be discussing it, right?

I have just entered my first triathlaon

400m swim - 26km bike - 6.25 km run

Ludlow Sprint Triatlon has been running since 1996 and has grown in popularity and we have seen it fully subscribed now for many years. This event is orgnised in partnership between Ludlow Runners, Ludlow Cycling Club and Teme Leisure. Situated at the northern edge of town. Teme Ludlow (South Shropshire Leisure Centre as it is signposted) is just off the A49 and along side Ludlow Secondary School. The swim will take place in the 25-metre pool in the Centre, with Transition situated to the rear of the building. The cycle will be through part of the town, out onto country roads before returning to the centre on the A49. The run will be an out and back course on the footpath alongside the A49 to the north of Ludlow

Playing MK in the arcade when it was out on test - all it does is make me miss the arcades :-(

http://kotaku.com/the-lie-adults-used-t ... 1699081396

I was talking about this earlier. I do agree on that, but I guess it is like the boss of Sainsburys bemoaning his 1% pay cut standing in an aisle being tended by a load of 0 hours contract shelf stackers.

Well, less extreme that that, obviously, but I think a bit of tact around that kind of thing doesn't go amiss.

Given the conversation I just overheard, this sounds reasonable.

I seem to remember Comic Sans is easier for partially sighted people to read.

the background is a bit light. Contrast helps, orange on black or black on orange tends to work quite well. Pink could work well on a dark background. Obviously, it depends on the type and severity of partial-sightedness.

Pro tip, if you ever use Co-op ATMs and you're struggling to see the screen, press five on the keypad, then put your card in. Brings up the high contrast orange on black mode.

In that case I think Grim... is being really unthoughtful in not providing you with a fluorescent pink Comic Sans forum so that you can read in total comfort, to which your reading mode should default at every log in.

I'm not partially sighted.

In that case it will just be all the more clear for you.

My company are doing their first Mafia scum night in the office tonight. I'm tempted to go along and offer to run a game for them

Hahaha!

"No! They weren't actually a secret Mafia!"

Age of Ultron tonight. Fuck yes!

Fuck, no, wait; today's only Wednesday isn't? Fucksticks! No Avengers until tomorrow.

I am off to London on Friday, going to watch the Marthon on Sunday, a few friends are running

Trooper and I are watching it in "4X", which means the seats move and it rains on you and stuff.

I fully expect that to be something I only try once.

Indeed, i'm expecting it to be terrible, but awesome.

I've never even tried out those motorised seat things that the cinema in Glasgow has because it looks too stupid and distracting.

That's normally my job in the cinema.