Sunday, August 10, 2008

Ice Blocking

Pure concentration

If you ever wondered what ice blocking was (and to be perfectly honest, it had never crossed my mind until the wife mentioned it a couple of weeks ago), it basically involves a steep hill, the biggest block of ice you can find, and plenty of laughs.

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We all headed over to the local field around the corner from our house, and tried it out. As you can tell from the pics, there were lots of laughs and everyone escaped without any serious injuries (although my side hurt a little from all the laughing).

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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Stop

Blatantly stolen from Nixta, who stole if from Thomas (as in the Thomas we hung out with when we were in NYC the other week - kinda cool when the web and real life end up intersecting, or maybe it's just got to the point where the web is real life). And stealing probably isn't the right word.....

Anyway, this is especially for my fave lovie in advertising, Rach, who as you saw below popped out another kid last week

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Sunday, July 06, 2008

Dinner Napkins

As the wife can attest, I have an incredible ability to share my food evenly between my mouth and my shirt. Luckily, people invented napkins, and not only do these ones make you look (more) respectable, it takes away some of that self consciousness around sticking a bit of paper in your collar when your eating. Or maybe not.

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Friday, July 04, 2008

Happy 4th Everyone

Humor today by the only e-card site that seems worth bothering with these days.

Have a great one today - I'm spending the whole day pretending that everyone else isn't celebrating the defeat of my home country. Alcohol normally works pretty well for this. And Union Jack underpants.

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Friday, June 20, 2008

Telemarketers Bothering You?

An absolute classic, courtesy of Mr Ketchledge, a strong proponent of the random Friday Video, which has become a part of our culture here in the office since we started the company a few years ago.

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Thursday, June 05, 2008

Gangsta Rap - Geordie Stylie

Not really safe for work so you've been warned, unless you're wearing headphones. Thanks to (big) Neil for the link (ages and ages ago, but just getting to it now - I know I owe you an email or 6...)

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Sunday, May 04, 2008

Crazy Scooter Mod


I think I want one.

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Stop

Some humor to try and induce people to actually obey the stop signs. If it's anything like the one behind our back yard, the only thing that will work is a cop parked off to the side (and that only counts for cars - apparently if you're on a bike you don't have to stop even then).

The other signs are here.

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Friday, May 02, 2008

Ten Most Surprising Facts About Obama

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

IM's Make Me Laugh

Well, my brothers IM's do - especially when he spots someone as famous as King Kev - I just wonder how many people can claim to have been laughed at by the Newcastle manager?

Daniel says:
seen king kev tonight!
.............
Aaron says:
so where did you see King Kev?
Daniel says:
just in traffic he must of been on his way home from the training ground!
Daniel says:
i was beeping and shouting lol
Daniel says:
he was just laughing!

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Coolest Cubes

Lifehacker has been running a coolest cubes competition for a little while now - their big summary post is here if you want to check it out (some are actually pretty normal, unlike the one to the left....)

Which reminds me, I really need to tidy up my workspace at some point - the "just moved in" excuse is getting a little old after 3 months.

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An e-card site that actually has fun cards

Finally, an e-card site with cards you might send when it's not someones birthday.

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JB's Bachelor Party/Pub Crawl

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You don't realize how you miss a decent pub crawl until 50 of your closest friends all pile down Colfax for a bit of an event. This one happened to be to celebrate the impending wedding of JB/Tartley/Jon/insertanothernamehere. A great turnout was further compounded late in the evening for Dana's engagement gig, resulting in even more people taking over the bars and sending barstaff into a little frenzy.

Luckily for us, the Aussies left their whistles at home (although a certain wife of an Aussie has the capacity to use the natural whistle approach to round up the troops). The bars were the usual eclectic mix of places we wouldn't normally set foot it, and places we wouldn't normally leave until thrown out at closing time. The weather did it's usual Denver in Springtime thing - sunny most of the day, somehow turning into a decent snowfall for the periods we were expected to walk between bars.

Oh, and we had a Nun with us, and it turns out s/he was an expert cowbell player....

Pics are here

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Friday, March 21, 2008

Ready for Summer?

Just to get everyone in the mood 8-) Pic came from here

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Spellchecker Needed

This went up this week... Glad the taxpayers money is being put to good use, and all their QA checks are in place and working.

9 News Sign Story

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Saturday, March 01, 2008

Inflatable Buildings

Now here's a great idea from a UK company - just make sure that you don't lay it over any sharp objects...

Details via DVICE are here

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Sunday, February 10, 2008

Justin's Truck?

I doubt it, but this is definitely more than a dick in a box.

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Monsters, Inc

Too cute not to post

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Saturday, January 05, 2008

Trash Compactor

One house we rented in Breck when my (youngest) brother was across here had what is apparently known as a trash compactor. A machine mystical in its operation, that means you can keep stuffing the big bags full of rubbish long after it should be full.

We needed one over Christmas when we were back in England - lots of takeaways, gift wrapping and random boxes, combined with the bin men enforcing the one bin only rule per house meant we were struggling for space long before it was time for the wagon to come around. Enter the Newcastle version of the trash compactor - much more manual in its approach to solution, but a lot more fun.....

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Monday, December 31, 2007

Wiii Races

If you've never played on a Wii, you should really try and have a go - they're a lot of fun....

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

iBoob


The perfect Christmas gift?

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Monday, December 17, 2007

Santa Kidnapped?

The Dark Side of the Force making a claim over Christmas?

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Friday, December 07, 2007

Our Christmas Party

Another corker of a night. George, you really should have come along....

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Natalie Portman Raps

Two reasons for this post (apart from to keep all those Star Wars geeks happy - it's kinda funny, especially as I've never seen her do stuff like this, and to see what happens with my new Hulu beta testing thing when I embed a clip from their site (although I'm a big Apple fan, this site so far has me all excited)

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Friday, November 30, 2007

American Idol?

It's a good job they don't have to take an IQ test before they let them sing.....


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6 Billion Reasons Why I Married Her

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And one of them is coz she forwards me stuff like this 8-)

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Sunday, November 18, 2007

Best Umbrella?

I would argue (and quite hard) that the best umbrella you can get is the one attached to your 07 Rolls Royce, that magically comes out of the door when you press the little button. It's definitely got the best hiding place anyway. However, the most fun umbrella has to be this one - it'll probably not get you safely through security at DIA (or maybe even down any street over here), but it looks fun for a joke on the other side of the Atlantic.

And it even collects the rain and makes the water pistol work - how cool is that? Too cool for Rhianna, that's for sure.

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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Balls!

This is just freaky (and thanks to Brian for the link - if it's one of your special effects gigs I'll be gutted)

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

The Rise of the Helmet

It seems like only yesterday when the big Vegas trip was planned for my stag/bachelor/bucks party, but it turns out it was well over 2 years ago now. Plenty of great memories, lots of friends, a blow up sheep, and the Captain America helmet, which I was somehow persuaded to wear all the way up the strip (and then even in a few bars and clubs if memory serves me right, although the whole night got a little vague towards the end).

Well, it's all going to be happening again this weekend - not mine of course - you only get one of those (or two I guess if you can squeeze in an extra one back in your home country ;-), but the incredible Mr Tonkin's. The usual suspects, plus a couple of early arrivers from Oz are heading there tomorrow, which is unfortunately a little too soon for me to be able to order this fantastic Pac-Man Helmet and have it arrive in time. I guess it's the thought that counts, right? And I'm sure Ash has something equally fitting sorted out, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Heidi's Birthday Party


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It was a good one (as always). I was relieved of my cooking duties this year, and we got the help of Maggianos to provide the food for the troops. Of course, we totally forgot the portion sizes when we ordered, so I think everyone went home with a big bag of food, and the fridge and freezer are now fully stocked for the foreseeable future.

Fynn made it through her first party, although I think by the end it all got too much for her. We also managed to successfully recreate the Purple Hooter experience, so that made me and Ash happy anyway.

The rest of the photos are up on Flickr here, although I did totally forget that I had put the camera on charge until later in the night.....

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Monday, July 16, 2007

French and Saunders

I totally forgot how funny they were.

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The Best Ever Windows Error

I know, it's a big list, and I'm sure everyone has their favorite. Most people get excited when they see the blue screen of death (unless they're in the middle of something mildly important with a deadline looming....

Anyway, the following is direct from the Microsoft Suppost Pages

Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords. Please type a different password. Type a password that meets these requirements in both text boxes.

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Aussies Beat the Speed Camera

Trust me, it's worth a read....

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Saturday, July 14, 2007

Grope on a Rope????

Continuing the dodgy posts this morning comes "Grope on a Rope" - I kid you not. Who thinks of these names?

It's actually a bar of soap (on a rope), for the people who don't get enough physical contact. Another bargain at 7.50 (pounds this time - not sure if you can get it over here).

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Coffin Craziness

More for Mr Bland than anyone else (especially after the month long bender, combined with exercise and a very healthy Chipolte diet), here's the Crazy Coffins site - if you don't fancy spending the rest of your (dead) life stuck in a boring old wooden box, spice up the life of those worms and creep crawlies by giving them something interesting to eat through.

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Sunday, July 08, 2007

Lance and Steph Get Married


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And we had the pleasure of attending, along with a lot of other smiling happy people. It was a great night, we even got there on time (just...), and despite the weather not co-operating at the last minute, everything went off without a hitch (that's what it looked like from where I was sitting, anyway).

I did manage to take a few photos, so they're here, and the video below when they were all arriving (9 groomsmen and bridesmaids - a new record for a wedding I've attended).


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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

It's a Jack In The Box

Still laughing so hard, I'm having trouble typing....


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Monday, June 25, 2007

Aussies Singing? I hope not.....

The fact that I briefly appeared in this video was a surprise to me, as I had no recollection of this song, or the video camera presence. I still haven't decided if the camera work or the singing was worth, but needless to say, they were both very very bad. One more stag/bachelor party to go, and then it's over for the foreseeable future. My liver will be happy.....

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Friday, May 25, 2007

Aarons Saturday Night Plans

It's not going to be pretty - the last time I played golf was for Ash's stag do - I have vague memories of hiding in an alleyway at 9pm, throwing my guts up, and that was back in the days when I could still actually drink (I think the 3 under par at the par 3 Fado's at 4 in the afternoon was the cause - that and of course the obligatory dodgy pint I must have had). Happy Times.......

Neil/Lance/Tonks Chunderfest 2007

Buy In: Mandatory $5 buy-in, winner takes all.

Scoring: Upon arrival you’ll be assigned the person for whom you keep score, you won’t score yourself because most of you are cheating fookers.

Location: Golden Triangle

6pm Cap City (optional for eats)

7pm Cap City (kick-off)

o ‘Mandatory Par 3’ hole: No one leaves until everyone’s had 3

o 7:40 Boat Race: Optional necking contest. All players get a stroke for their drink (standard pints only) just for playing. Winner gets triple strokes. (Beer = 3 strokes, Car bomb = 9 stokes)

8pm Bannock Street Garage

o Par 2

o ‘No One Drinks’ hole: No one can drink until Neil/Lance/Tonks have finished their first.

o Rule: Finish every sentence with “and neil/lance/tonks is a twat” (or similar), no points for the current drink if rule broken.

8:45pm Left on Lincoln

o Par 2

o Bonus: Every drink over par is double the strokes.

o 9:15pm Boat Race for triple points.

9:30pm Nine 75

o Par 2

o ‘Known Wanker Bar’ rule: Upon finishing drink must say “and look at that wanker over there with that complete hosebeast pog”, or the drink is not counted to your total.

10:15pm Charlie Brown’s Bar and Grill

o Par 3

o Bonus: Already a par 3, every drink under par is triple the strokes.

o Bonus: Stand on a chair and attempt a joke. Best joke gets 4 points.

o Bonus: Stand on a chair and drop your trousers. + 1 points, once per player. And singing along with the music. + 2 points, once per player.

11pm Govnr’s Park

o Par 2

o ‘F***ing’ hole: Caught saying the word ‘f***’, finish current drink. Still counts to your total.

o ‘Pissheads’ rule: Subtract stroke for every piss.

11:45pm Funky Buddha

o No rules.

General

o 1 point for every time Neil/Lance/Tonks chunders, if they are drinking something you bought them.

o 1 point standard drink (including shots) = 1 stroke

o Combo drinks (car bomb) = 3 strokes

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Fynn the Footie Fanatic

So it looks like Fynn (and personally, I think it's directly related to her superior coloring)is a bit of footie player. Here's a brief shot of her taking on herself - young careers always start on the living room carpet. Before you know it, she'll be playing for the Rapids.

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