Science versus Faith
Valentines Day Gifts
A young man wanted to purchase a gift for his new sweetheart’s for Valentines, and as they had not been dating very long, after careful consideration, he decided a pair of gloves would strike the right note: romantic but not too personal.
Accompanied by his sweetheart’s younger sister, he went to DJ’s and bought a pair of white gloves. The sister purchased a pair of panties for herself. During the wrapping, the shop assistant mixed up the items and the sister got the gloves and the sweetheart got the panties. Without checking the contents, the young man sealed the package and mailed it to his sweetheart with the following note:
“I chose these because I noticed that you are not in the habit of wearing any when we go out in the evening. If it had not been for your sister, I would have chosen the long ones with the buttons but she wears short ones that are easier to remove. These are a delicate shade, but the lady I bought them from showed me the pair she had been wearing for the past three weeks and they are hardly soiled. I had her try yours on for me and she looked really smart. I wish I were there to put them on for you the first time as no doubt other hands will come in contact with them before I have a chance to see you again. When you take them off, remember to blow in them before putting them away as they will naturally be a little damp from wearing. Just think how many times I will kiss them during the coming year!
All my love.
P.S. The latest style is to wear them folded down with a little fur showing.”
Top Gear Attacked by Rednecks!
The Top Gear crew gets attacked by rednecks while filming in the Deep South
Design Geek?
- You giggle whenever you use the colors F0CCED, EFF0FF and 44DDDD
- You’re in the sun and you look around for a Drop Shadow to sit under.
- You give your relatives a lecture about color spaces and profiles when you email them your vacation photos.
- Seing someone use Lens Flare or Comic Sans adversely affects your blood-pressure
- You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets.
- You organise your CD collection according to the Pantone chart.
- You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor, waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn’t come.
- You’re up ’til 5am because you came up with the best idea ever while brushing your teeth.
- The hottest dream you ever had was “Trace contour… Find Edges… Pinch… Extrude… Smudge Stick… Motion Blur…. Sprayed Strokes…”
- You know Lorem Ipsum by heart.
- Your kid knows Lorem Ipsum by heart.
- The preschool teacher complains your child won’t color inside or outside the lines – only indicate colors on a separate sheet.
- Activating your entire font collection makes your computer crash – and you’re running OSX.
- You deliberately butcher your perfectly cross browser compatible site in IE by placing a “Too Cool for IE” banner on it.
- You prefer a Layer Style of 50% Opacity (or less) on your wife’s Satin.
- You spend $200 on a font for your personal website because “it’s the only one where the lower-case g is just right…”
- Looking at a menu make you go “hmmm, ITC Baskerville italic” rather than “mmmm, lunch!”
- And when you finally order, you go for Layer Based Slices with Grain Texture…
- You use words about fonts you dislike that
othernormal people reserve for fascist dictators and serial killers. - Apple+Z is the first thing that goes through your mind if you drop and break something.
- You refer to colleagues as Strict, Transitional, Loose and the Future Unemployed.
- You refer to your privates as “the Magic Wand”.
- You actually understand this post and pass it on to your friends.
From: http://www.crestock.com/blog/design/23-signs-that-youre-becoming-a-design-geek-26.aspx
Microsoft Still Living in the 90’s
I noticed this today whilst on the MSN signup site. Are they completely unaware that Gmail even exists, not to mention Yahoo and many other solutions. You can find the original page here: http://join.msn.com/
Work and Play
An Aussie sitcom pilot based around a sole female worker in a games development office.
Why FOX cancelled Firefly
Memorandum
To: Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy Television Incorporated
From: Shillton Skankowski, FOX Television Entertainment Network Group
Date: February 19th, 2002
Dear Joss,
After that power brunch we had yesterday I just thought I’d send you a memo and let you know that I’ve talked with the other executives here at FOX and we’ve decided to give your little space western idea another chance. However, and I’m sure you’ll understand why, we ask for a few simple adjustments to your marvellous show idea before we can continue. Read the rest of this entry »
