Be Excellent To Each Other

Maybe that should be the next Thursday challenge...

Working on your LinkedIn profile?

I think I am going to slowly kill my Project Manger...

I am on a highly political and time critical project, been stuck in the middle of a discussion between my customer and my storage architect, on an enterprise storage solution.

The design was due Friday just gone, finally got an answer. To find my PM has not formally requested the storage architect so he can't do the design.....

and breath!!

Obey the Rules?

What's that thing in DavPaz's avatar? Cos this picture is awesome and I want to know what the hell is going on.

Don't Hug me, I'm scared

Which is awesome and fucked up.

There IS no rule 1.

You have too much room, too much money, and too little understanding of knives if you buy this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112057519498

I'm not even sure that would work unless it oscillates, the bagel would just compress.

Finally famous

http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/28/this-dad- ... e-6034291/

"Tesco"

HTH HAND

As one of us works for them, and the other doesn't... Shhhhh....

How odd. I thought I'd third that in my phone. Anyway, that wasn't Russell being a jerk. It was me being a jerk.

We've got one at work, must be two years old now, but it still works really well.

Shot another wedding yesterday, exhausting but enjoyable and beginning to feel like I'm coming to grips with it. That makes five now, with another to come in September.

Here's a pairing of two of my favourite images, for a shoot in a nearby field I took them out to. Not sure if the second image has a hint of sinister about it though...





Saw about thirteen shooting stars late last night whilst sat out on a lawn drinking a beer in the wee hours with Lord Rixondale too. That was pretty cool.

Those are fantastic, really like the second one, Pete.

Charming Guardian article about a Norwegian campaign to give Finland a mountain for its birthday.

Same. I was surprised it was good, I thought it would be useless. You'd have to eat an awful of of bagels to justify buying one for home though.

Those pictures are awesome Pete. I bet the bride and groom will be very happy with them.

Judging by photo 2, they have gone back to their home planet!

They would look better if a sepia filter were applied.

Saved a 4 or 5 month old kid from abduction, being sold into white slavery and/or being murderised this afternoon. Walking through the car park of a middle class supermarket, i thought it odd that someone would leave a soft top car with the roof up but windows down. Inside, a young kid was in the wrong sized car seat. Alone! Springing into action I was able to tell the security guard who spoke to a lady who made An Announcement on the tannoy that the owner of the car should go to customer services. I saw the owner go and she left pretty sharpish without saying a word and jumped in the car and zoomed away from the danger. Presumably home to tell of this kind stranger who saved the young 'un. Being the Saviour of Children is its own reward I thought as Captain Shitpants decided to ram the trolley down the biscuit aisle, collecting trophies on the way shouting "Witness me, bloodbag" at passers by.

I'd have been tempted to call the police, not the security guard...

Clearly they need this. http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/30/12332 ... minder-app

If the windows were down, it suggests to me that they deliberately left the kid in the car rather than just forgetting it?

Why let folks with design degrees have all the fun with GIFs?

Been clay shooting. Was great

Spent half the morning stood on top of a sainsbury's car park to watch the demolition of three tower blocks. It was quite a sight, pics to follow.

Life mirrors The Simpsons, part 94:

BBC:

The cast currently in the V&A wore a fig lead at one point, due to a visit from royalty and an iverbearung sense of proper decorum.

If you aim for the King you better not miss

I've never been to the V&A. I want to visit the London Transport Museum and that Wellcome Trust place that's full of pickled body bits too.

Kern, you need to go to the V&A.

Have you been to the British Museum?

The museum part is not very big [0] but it is pretty cool. Last time I was there there was an exhibit on the history of criminal forensics which was fascinating, if rather gruesome. In the 60s some people who donated their bodies to medical science had their corpses left under a variety of conditions (indoors, outdoors, different climates, humidity levels, etc) so that scientists could observe the decomposition and thus have the data they need to reason about bodies discovered under suspicious circumstances.

Has a nice cofeeshop too.

[0] The actual Wellcome Collection is huge, but it's less intrinsically fascinating, being just A Lot Of Stuff Wellcome Bought. You can get lost in there for hours if you get into it, however.

I had an interview for medical school in a pathogy museum down Mile End way. It was a bit distracting to see stuff bobbing about in there.

Stephen Fry did a documentary about body farms once. It was pretty gruesome.

Actually it may have been Louis Theroux. Or someone else entirely!

Body Farms With Alan Titchmarsh?

Oh, it was part of the Stephen Fry In America series:l. It's on YouTube:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2cn8io3kplA

Several times. Only really scratched the surface though.

I've always loved Egyptian stuff and always head for those galleries first whenever I go to a new museum. Wish I could read the hieroglyphics.

Annual eye check up, I hate it.

Makes my eyes fuzzy for a few hours.

I've just had an email off Microsoft updating their terms and conditions. Nothing major but one of the new additions seems that you need to log in to an Xbox service at least every 5 years to keep your gamertag alive.

I think the most astonishing thing about this is that someone actually read one of those emails.

It's my first day back at work after a brilliant week off. I'm doing anything I can to not actually do any work.

Happy Birthday Stupid Sexy ThroughSilver!

(Just in case you're still lurking)

He's not very active on Twitter either these days.

Happy Birthday!

I have to be in Bracknell at stupid o clock on morning of 7th Sept. I will have to overnight it, I think, (unless work pay for my car insurance), so maybe am available evening of 6th in London.