Don’t you hate those those annoying, stupid infomercials? Usually they are on TV during the day when no one only braindead housewives watch them, or in the late after hours, way past midnight. I seriously think those infomercials should come with a warning, just like they put on cigarette packs: “Warning. Watching these stupid infomercials causes severe braindamage and/or mental retardation. No shit, Fool!” Personally I think the only way they are bearable to watch, is when you’re stoned as a shrimp or someone just knocked your lights out with a hockeystick. Since I am not into drugs (never even […]
About Dilbert and Engineers
If your in the IT or technology business, you gotta love the Dilbert cartoons. Dilbert is a cartoon evolving round perfect office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring engineer Dilbert. There are many, many very recognizable situations in the cartoon and I am 100% sure that anyone that ever had a job will recognize several character trades in their colleagues and – especially – their management. What I didn’t know, is that there were also Dilbert cartoons on TV and on the Dilbert Website. I didn’t know this until I came across a posting on another blog that featured […]
Twitter shitter
It’s funny how people think very different about using Twitter. After all the new social networks like MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook and Hyves (most popular in Holland), one might think the market for these kind of initiatives would be full. So when Twitter came out in 2006, I did not see the relevance of it. I mean: who wants the restriction of posting within 140 characters – including spaces? It is like SMS for the Web. Needless to say, I wasn’t convinced that there was a need for ‘micro-blogging‘ as it was soon dubbed. Also: who is interested in all this personal […]
Slip’n’slide
Ok, this could have easily been a video for the “Jackass” department, but I guess it’s kinda cool 😉 [youtube]DPp2HlIMkmU[/youtube]