October 2011
After emailing a client to let them know that...
Client: So, that all sounds great, but I was wondering if I could have your mobile number for tomorrow.
Me: You can, but that's not really going to help. There's a team of four people working on the site, each with different responsibilities.
Client: Ok, so?
Me: If you want us on call tomorrow, we're very happy to do so, but you'll be billed for a team of four, for eight hours each, and at double our normal rate.
Client: …
Me: So, what do you say we just get it signed off today?
For those of you playing at home, yep her butt still totally looks like that.
“Perhaps if veterinary nurses were allowed to wear feather boas and false...”
– I just bought @mariekehardy’s book. This is on page three.
I’m in love.
“Of course, you don’t want to go to one of those shitholes like Bali or Thailand,...”
– Clementine Ford, Bali is Paradise Lost for middle-class white people | Article | The Punch
BUM SICK.
I have a copy of Al Franken’s The Truth (With Jokes), and I never stop reading it. I dip into it at least once a week to remind me what it felt like when the left seemed to have some direction.
Microsoft is some seriously white bullshit.
Microsoft has released a video of their vision of working in the future. In it, a woman flies into Johannesburg on business. Lot of Tron-lines appear on buildings. Her portable device magically arranges shit for her. Then at around the 90 second mark, we meet our first black person. He is carrying the woman’s luggage.
I don’t know what happens after that because my eyes went all ragey...
I read Christopher Hitchens’ autobiography. Here is my abridged version for you.
Mum went crazy and died. Daddy never hugged me. I was a very pretty young man. I fucked tons of women and maybe some dudes too. Fight the power. Martin Amis is dreamy. The End.
“‘Thank you for your network but actually your old pricing paradigm now has...”
– iMessage may slip past police monitoring - Communications - News - ZDNet Australia
That’s VodaFone’s product manager for applications bleating about iMessage. Diddums, champ.
“And like any other passenger the Queen had to pay her way, although her...”
– The Age, Prince Philip rails at Queen’s go-slow
It’s pretty well-known that the Queen sometimes rides the Tube incognito.
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“Just before he reached Tim and the world wide web at the end of the row, an aide...”
– Stephen Fry Steve Jobs « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
(found via Daring Fireball)
“Women’s television viewing isn’t as fun, Dr Patulny said, because of...”
– The Age, How’s the serenity? Aussie life less joyous for Yanks
“Leisure contamination”
“Americans would not enjoy the Australian way of life.
Our easy-going...”
– The Age, How’s the serenity? Aussie life less joyous for Yanks
Sorry we watch less TV, guys.
“What does all this mean? Nothing major, really.”
– The Age, Apple MacBook Pro line updated with new processors, faster graphics
*sigh*
PREEMPTIVE STRIKE
scottfriday:
putting this out there weeks in advance:
if i see anyone on my dashboard post anything this holiday season regarding baby it’s cold outside being a song about date rape, i will immediately unfollow you without hesitation or regret.
it’s your tumblr, do what you want, i’m just letting you know now. if i see it, that’s the last post of yours i’ll see.
What’s your opinion of...
Ex-girlfriend: But you should have kids! Don't you want a family?
Me: Not really.
Ex-girlfriend: But why? I think it's a real missed opportunity.
Me: I think children should be something you really want, that you feel a desperate need to start a family. I don't feel like that.
Ex-girlfriend: But you'd make an amazing father.
Me: I'd probably make an amazing accountant. Not doing that either.
jamiek asked: Put that way, it makes more sense to me. The same way you stand when the President comes into the room.
Julia Gillard fails to curtsey to Queen Elizabeth... →
jamiek:
Maybe it’s my small-r republican attitude, but I will truly never understand monarchy. Remind me why I should bow to someone who’s important solely because of the family into which he or she was born?
Because under the system we have (which was effectively ratified by referendum) she is Queen of Australia. In the same way that you salute a rank, not a person, when you curtsey or bow...
essdogg asked: I feel like you have a story about Big Pig. Do you have a story about Big Pig?
“In fact, fuck normalcy. That shouldn’t be your goal in the first place.”
– Dear Coke Talk: On getting healthy.
CokeTalk, I am never going to stop loving you.
You're fucking shitting me with this.
So yeah, iCal to-do’s now sync with iOS devices. That’s a whole mess of fucking nifty and I’m super glad. What else am I super-fucking-glad about? Well, I’m pretty cunting stoked about location-based reminders because that fucking shit is the balls. I am all over that like shit on your undies, motherfucker. Yessiree.
Of course, Apple being fucking Apple, there’s no...
The Stone Roses are getting together again and all I can think is that I would rather John Squire toured The Seahorses again instead.
“The Galaxy Tab 10.1 was set to be a strong Christmas seller for retailers such...”
– $30m tablet black hole: Harvey Norman hits out at Samsung ban
Really? Samsung expected to sell 50,000 Galaxy Tabs in Australia? Seems, well, like bullshit.
“The biggest investment Labor could make in atoning for the madness of the past...”
– Katharine Murphy, Stephen Smith Trails Gillard, Rudd As Preferred Labor Leader
“Lillie was in her mid-20s then and according to mission historian Monica Cronin,...”
– The Age, Seafarers base reveals tales of love
“There’s no regrets.”
– Quade Cooper quoted in Cruden wins the battle of the No.10s
I’m all for a ‘fuck it’ attitude to life, but seriously mate, you ought to regret 90% of last night’s game because it was seriously lamentable.
