The people at work sang Happy Birthday to me and gave me a twig (which was later taken back, but for good reasons). My work people are nuts, and they’re a big reason why I like my job.
Tag: random shit
Random moment of the week
So I’m taking out the bins before making my way to the bus stop, when I hear a really loud chopper noise. As I’m walking to the bus stop, I finally twig that there’s a helicopter idling in the middle of the football pitch. Shortly after, it took off but I missed it because I had to get to the bus on time to not be late for a meeting and I turned a blind corner relative to the pitch.
Edit: Right. Well this day is shaping up to be interesting if it keeps up like this…
I’m sorry, what?
My new business card
I don’t think business services would approve, but there is a strong need for these!
Shouldn’t work, but damned if it doesnt
Gin cocktails and cheese & onion crisps shouldn’t work together. But they do. And we needed this.
Benzo Ferrari and his mobility scooter
Obey the Goth Chicken
Last night’s dream
Writing a project brief, during a budding zombie apocalypse, at a wine fair.
Apparently, it’s Christmas tomorrow
This is what happens when you subscribe to several public Google calendar feeds.
Why did it take 300 to properly classify the giant tortoise?
It took 300 years for the giant tortoise to get a scientific or taxonomical name because people kept eating them. People would put them on ships and sail them back home, but by the time they arrived at port in Europe the crew would have eaten the whole lot. Even Charles Darwin and the crew aboard the Beagle ate all the giant tortoises on board. The only descriptions of them are comparing them to chicken, beef, mutton and butter, and saying they tasted better than all of them. Even the liver and bone marrow was considered delicious. They were also used as water stores, because they have a special internal bladder which stores water so perfectly that it is drinkable, so when you slit them open to cook them you also got a gallon of fresh water. The crew therefore stacked them up so that they could not move, and they did not need to be fed for months so they were very useful for whaling ships because they provided both food and water. There are 12 species of giant tortoise, all of which are now endangered.