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Jesper (while drawing…): ” Somewhere…..some guy is designing the patterns for shoesoles……………………………………..that must be a really weird job…but there must be some guy…I guess”
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specs’n’coffee…
Bo came by ealier today, to show us some specs on a project we’re doing togeather.
Bo got really excited about some .net file, and this is the result
5 minutes in…Jesper takes over as projectmanager, as Bo just keeps lifting stuff, yelling “IT’S SPREADING…IT’S SPREADING..”
We’re thinking about investing in one of those plastic-cups mounted on a suction disc for our next meeting…
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The dog and the girlfriend…
This is Henry…he’s a very nice dog…
This is Henry during lunch…still a very nice dog…keeping himself busy staring at another dog for 30 minutes…
I’d like a dog…my parents think it’s a bad idea until I get a girlfriend…I guess the equation looks something like this.
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The weekend.
This is a quick recap of this weekend. It’s not all we did, and in no way highlights…
Friday:
The guy on the left approaches our table, and suggested that we free the slaves…very awkward moment..
Saturday
Looking at planes…
Sunday
Same thing…very creative…
Monday
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Nothing reporting on nothing live from Nothing Hill…
Among other things we’re working on the following…
It’s gonna take place here…(Jesper is using his “no upper body movement” signature run to display great joy…)
This is Martin in transit at the Frankfurt airport, on his way to dazzle an entire crew and movie set…And yews…(Sorry…the “s” and “w” are located quite close on the keyboard.Should have spelled “yes”..In this particular case, I think it’s called pulling a “Mel Gibson” …that’s one guy spending a lot of time hating other people…) he’s unhappy about a at the time recently announced delay…
And this is me last saturday, wearing Martins glasses…Just some of the crazy stuff I did last week…
Basically that’s it…I think…jep…that’s all folks…If you have any questions on the above…feel free to ask…really
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Panasonic…
Aahhh….the eighties….full of colors and dancing people…I they ever invent a timetravelmachine…I know where I’m going…
Notice the beginning where they say “a new light weight system” and the tagline ” Slightly ahead of our time” Wonderful…
[video]http://www.youtube.com//v/9KjoBBzZdt0[/video]
Thanks Bo..
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jackass
Last night I found myself watching an episode of jackass. (Trying to work with the TV on never seems to work out…) They were doing the gumball race. (a lot of losers driving really fast through a lot of countries ). The arrive at the Lithuanian border. One of the drivers stole the keys to a truck (not cool), so they have to wait for a while. On the side of the road there’s a local kid standing and watching the people who’s got more money in their pockets, than he’ll ever see in his entire life. He’s got this scared look on his face, and doesn’t get why all the people are looking at him and laughing…then one of the jerks…jackasses…tell him to “kick the cameraman in the balls”…When the cameraman gets close, the kid, still looking scared, kicks the man. Everybody think it’s hilarious. They give the kid 50 USD, which he, with a embarrassed look on his face, quickly puts in his pocket. I mean…what the fuck…I had to look away…I was a real lowpoint…If these guys like to film each other kicking each other, that’s fine by me…but don’t drag some poor kid into it…In the next scene, they talk about driving through Lithuania, and that they have to wait for a military convoy to escort them…’cause it’s dangerous…THAT’S JACKASS 4 YOU…These guys are crazy…a bit later, Steeevooo (most disgusting person ever to walk the face of earth) emptied a bag of potato-chips in the back of a jaguar…He found it so funny that he almost threw up…which he also finds quite funny………………………………
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Wednsday…
That’s right…this is how I often spell the word correctly spelled “Wednesday”
…Don’t know why. I just one of those tiny pieces of information that doesn’t seem to be significant enough to stay on the inside of my head…I type the letters and then I sit and look at it. And I suggest that second “e” in there to myself, but it has a weird feeling to it. I guess it’s one of those words that I don’t spell enough. I need to spell it sometimes, but not so often that it sticks…Google “wednsday”, and you’ll find that 210.000 has the same problem…George Bush has the same problem with the words “peace, google, internet, banana and Texas”.
This is a video. Clik it and look at it…It’s a very naivistic cartoon made by Lev Yilmaz. Jesper and I saw this, among others, at this years Cosmic Zoom and I really think they’re quite funny…he has this very rare gift of observation. The stuff you don’t give any thought, but when added up, takes up almost 5/6 of your life…
[video]http://www.youtube.com//v/jpoHEsw9r78[/video]
The next video is a classic sketch. I like to watch it…it makes me laugh…sometimes a lot and sometimes not so much, but all in all quite watchable..
[video]http://www.youtube.com//v/tPrm6luPmME[/video]
..and if you don’t get it, the guy on first is called who…and so on…
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Keep Others in Suspended Terror.
This is the best advice I can give you if you aspire to become a shit-boss. You need to cultivate an air of unpredictability…Always keep a trident in close proximity, and when people ask if you want coffee use a boolean containing the following to answers.
0 = “Yes please. That would be lovely”
1 = “If you ever talk to me again I will bend you like it christmas 1987″
That ought to do the trick.
Some days ago I watched a bit of telly. Actually I wasn’t watching. I was reading a whitepaper on global warming, and I decided to turn it on, just to drown out the silence…How do you like them apples mister Gore ?
Getting closer to the point, I saw the following:
It’s the news for deaf people…I get that…The woman is talking and doing signlanguage, and the guy in the smaller picture is also doing signlanguage…So… basically I don’t get it…the woman is doing signlanguage…and the man is also…Why is he there ? And no…it’s not an interview. The woman didn’t pay him any attention at all (if it’s an interview, it’s the worst ever…) Or is it like subtitles… ? Are there more than one kind of signlanguage ? Is it because I’m stupid ? This would be the obvious reason…but…yes…that’s probably the case…
A quick recap of some other stuff that’s important…
Mies van der rohe stated the following during an interview more than fifty years ago when building the Barcelona Pavilion to be on display at the world fair in 1954. He was doing more acid than Andy Warhol on a good day, and had been up for three days drawing squares. The reporter… by coincidence… is called Less…
Mies van der Rohe
“Les Moore…I think his name is Les Moore…He has a small bistro just of Placa Real, and he makes a carbonara to die for…It less or more perfect…Less or more…Jess More…It’s Less I think…yeah…he’s called Less…like you…More coffee anyone ? Less…? No ? Ok…I’m on my way now, so could we wrap it up..Or do you have more questions.. sorry…Less… was it ?
The editor on the paper less worked on didn’t care for artists, so he told him to cut it to the bare essentials.
The following day the independent magazine “Reptiles for dummies” ran an article called “LESS IS MORE”.
This sunday Jesper worked some more on his square theory. Basically it’s a tool for simplifying every task…Break it down in to four squares. To illustrate he made the following example:
Pizza margherita (Mies van der Rohes favourite)
Square one: I don’t like it…
Square two: I don’t like it…
Square three: I don’t like it…
Square four: I don’t like it…
And wrapping it up. This is the central office of army intelligency in the town of Valencia. It’s right next to the spanish equivalent of WaterWorld with a dolphin show every day at 2 PM.
Right before the viaduct there’s a small slot. The left side of the wall isn’t a fixed structure. If you fail to insert ID in the slot, it will squash you with a force of 34 metric ton. Since 1967 the number of deaths amount to 324 and a half. The government refuse to change the system, and the dolphins next door think the screaming is their uncle calling them…
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The compliment sandwich…
Often, in the life of business, you need to say something not quite so nice to an employee or client etc…
You might feel like you don’t want to insult the other person, just bursting out with the message. And this is where the compliment sandwich comes in handy..
This is how it works. You take the bad message, and place it between two good things…
Boss: (Bread) “That is an absolutely lovely tie you’re wearing…”
Employee “Thank you”
Boss: (meat gone bad) “You’re fired…clear your desk…you got 5 minutes…”
Employee “What…?”
Boss (Bread…) “Your wife is adorable…so sexy…”
Employee “What…”
Boss “…I said your wife is..”
See how that works…
You might wanna consider doing this at a staffmeeting or sales pitch…really impress that rep from Ohio with your managing skills…
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