January 2011
9 posts
Yahoo
An organisation whom are evidently not in the running for the Plain English Awards this year.
“Part of our organizational streamlining involves shifting our investment with off-strategy products to put better focus on our core strengths and fund new innovation in the next year and beyond,” Yahoo said in response to an AFP inquiry.*
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Worry
I received an email from someone on my team recently saying this:
“meaning behind your doodle… :)
Squares: An expression that indicates the need to maintain order, structure and gain control. Squares within squares show an inherent need to hide secrets. “
I don’t know whether I’m more worried that I’ve never noticed that I did this, that she clearly has or that I do it literally all the time....
Leslie
After the recent death of Leslie Neilson, my chum Tony, whom I worked with about five years ago sent me a ‘compendium’ that I had compiled whilst we worked together.
The way that this worked was, when someone famous died – we’d all put forward our favourite celebrities whom share that firstname. I’d pick ten, then write sarcastic things about them.
I think this must have been written at the time...
Boredom
My girlfriend and I would both really like to be writers. We have however, unproven talent and share a curiously strong self-preservation instinct that has meant that we have developed pretty successful mainstream careers (although both are involved to lesser or greater extents with ‘writing’ – her: PR & Communications. Me: Sales & Marketing).
We recently had a particular...
Guacamole
I would have thought that everyone on earth knew how to make Guacamole, but someone at work asked me the other day, so I wrote out a recipe and here it is:
Guacamole a la Slabface -
2 decent sized avocados (must be well ripe) 2 regular sized cloves of garlic ½ a seeded red chilli The juice of 1½ fresh lemons (do NOT use bottled lemon juice) One or two chopped tomatoes (this is economy really) Salt...
Recession
Interesting editorial angle on the recent implosion of Ireland’s economy:
Apocalypse
When asked if she knew whom Germaine Greer is, my new team member said, “Is he that bloke off of ‘Flight of the Conchords?”.
Every western woman, without exception, should know who Germaine Greer is and what her generation did for women today.
I’ve asked the women in my office before. Worryingly, a lot of women under 25 don’t know who Germaine Greer is.
They always seem to know who Kim Kardashian...
Nuts
It’s that time of year again and I’ve watched the thing that they used to call cyberspace, as well as the physical press, go ape with the ubiquitous end of year polls.
Now, horrifyingly, one of the ones that has actually caught my eye is from the somewhat low brow, lowest common denominator, tits & football oriented UK lads mag ‘Nuts’. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuts_(magazine)
Now, I’m...
Resolutions 2011
Weirdly, I’ve chosen the 11th of January to post my new years resolutions and have gone back to last years, which were similarly created - on the 11th January.
The 12 steps recovery programme says that you must give yourself a ‘fearless assessment of past wrongs’ (that’s where I’ve failed previously) but in the case of ones resolutions - here goes:
Achieved:
• Get teeth whitened and...