Fleas

I feel rather grubby in saying this but we have fleas thanks to the combination of a household that has zero inertia to hoover and a cat.

I've just ordered a rather questionable device off ebay, essentially a lightbulb suspended over a stickypad. Will it work? I doubt it however for non-chemical control this is the only product on the market. I'll see how it works out. It may be that I have to go down the road of heavy chemical use... That or having the balls to say "let's have a cleaning rota" but I'm always "that" guy... I don't wanna be "that" guy. O well, watch this space

Shirt and tie

Last night I stood with my housemates watching "Britain's next top model" ironing my shirt and trousers which I carefully hung on a hanger ready for the morning. In the morning I put these on carefully, did my hair, put on some polished shoes, found the least distressed coat and rode into work carefully avoiding puddles.

Of course I find out the meeting itself is cancelled. PANTS!

At the end of the day, why o why do we have to bother at all? What is it about someone wearing a smart shirt (ideally not off the rack) and an expensive suit (tailor made of course) that makes them so more impressive than some gimp in a tracksuit? Your average village idiot can still dress themselves so why is it important? That chap wearing a scruffy tee, battered Nike trainers and jeans with holes in could easily be the Creative Director of a top London agency... he (or she) could be the one who came up with "that" campaign you are always hearing about.

Now I could look up a whole bunch of studies about wearing a uniform and how the wearer takes on a persona but I'm not going to. You know these. Incidentally, that was exactly what happened in "Britain's next top model" - they had to do a horror shot and dressed up in Zombie make up found it easier to throw themselves into "character" than wearing a Bikini (last week's exciting episode). And do we really want people to be drones, to put on a uniform and conform to a stereotype. I don't, I want to be me, I want to be creative, I want to express myself through my shitty clothes.

I think I might get naked now and leave you with this: 

Facebook fans aren't a community

I'm just reading a great little article about why 10,000 fans of sausage rolls aren't a sausage roll community, they just like sausage rolls.

http://eatsleepsocial.com/2010/02/20/your-facebook-fans-arent-a-community-and-probably-dont-want-to-be-either/

Good point, now I'm hungry!

Dunkenness

Well that's a nice way to ease myself into Recruitment comms. Over the last 7 days we've had two socials and both times I've gotten myself horrendously smashed.

I think I've hit quite a few of the cliches - Karaoke, general verbal vomit with the MD, making full use of the bar tab, falling over, getting naked, attempting minor brain surgery, coming into work hung over with my t-shirt inside out.

Why do we do these things? There is a well known expression that if alcohol and cigarettes were discovered today they'd be made illegal... I wish they would be. What would society without alcohol be like, I guess a bit like Dubai... cool buildings.

Internet TV's

I'm rather excited about the prospect of internet TV becoming mainstream. Watch out Sky and Virgin indeed. There have been many occasions where I've wanted to find a YouTube video and put it on the screen for all to see. Going to get my laptop down is a pain the butt.

 

The idea that I could just stream films / tv on demand as well is pretty awesome; although a lot needs to happen to Broadband speeds first.

 

 

Inverted Pyramid

The best way to present content is to start with the conclusion then follow with the arguement.

This is how we structure our essays, our research-papers, and how we should structure web-content. In journalism it's called the inverted pyramid - i.e. top load with the most interesting facts and provide the less interesting support after.

This is something I need to think about more

10 animals extinct in our lifetimes

http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/03/ten-animals-which-could-be-extinct-within-your-lifetime.php?page=1

Shocking

Catz iz funny

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