Category: Reckons

This is my breakfast – an ordinary mens multi (really helped with reducing the meat cravings, though I still think about chops, and bacon, and chops wrapped in bacon, and fried chicken, and fried chicken and chops and bacon) heavy on the B, and with ginseng and selenium and such; flaxseed gelcaps (for all the good Omega-3 most people get from the odd bit of fish); and a couple of pills I like to think of simply as ‘No More Nightmares, Thanks’ though they do taste a bit like a nightmare.

I know, I know.

Four tables – and extras waiting for the first poor bastards to go out – great people, lots of fun. Hell of a night.

Now what I wanted to show you was another MS marketing video, this one the latest in their I’m a PC line. A simple, but pretty effective punch, aiming at the low end of the market – somewhere they can do some damage to Apple. We follow the perky redheaded “Lauren”, who is tasked with the job of finding a 17″ laptop for under $1000. Good luck doing that in the Apple store. (Where they go first, because duh.) And including brilliant lines such as “I’m just not cool enough to be a Mac person.” Brilliant.

Instead, they don’t get me promoting that, no instead they get me lambasting them. Because, seriously, what the fuck Microsoft? You think my browser can’t display your video? It just did on another site.

So of course once I click the “You can continue if you want but we’re pretty sure you’ll burst into flame” button, surprise surprise it works. And then, well I want to embed a video on my site, but… They won’t let me. I can “link” back, or I can “link back with a picture”, but no incrustar el vídeo, de puta. But I just saw it embedded in my google reader. What the hell are you playing at? You gotta let people embed.

Dicks.

Anyway, through the marvels of… once it’s on the internet it’s on the Черт мать чертову internet so вкусно пообедать в яичках. Here is the video:

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsMFyo8DWs4[/youtube]

Yes they’re trying to sell you IE8, yes I think you should use Chrome instead (or Firefox if you must, or Safari if that’s your only option) – but even so you have to admit it’s funny. A lot of self-deprecation going on here, something that goes a long way with me.

Developers developers developers developers.

If you knew so far in advance that this would be a problem that you could have a sign made, surely you could instead have simply come up with a solution.

All by himself late at night in a cold dark parking building, wondering where his master is, hoping someone still loves him. Someone does. I can tell.

This handsome young fellow found his way into the kitchen. Friendly guy, but I don’t think I have terribly much in the house to suit his diet.

Dear Genius, it’s called The Statue of Liberty. P.S. What the fuck is wrong with your brain?

The only decision, need I bother commenting on this, or is it all better left unsaid? Such a bind.

Dear TV3, maybe when the CV says their last job was at the Herald, you should keep a closer eye on their work output.