Lumpy in search of happiness...
I am sure that this is the next big thing, remember you saw it here first.
Friday, August 23, 2002
OK this is spooky. I can't get the little movie to play on my PC at work, but I'm sure its not a short cartoon of Casper... This guy's wife and child died eight years ago... and he still can't get any peace and quiet!
http://www.timetravelfund.com
This is quite funny. You pay $10 and they invest it for you and promise it to someone, hundreds of years in the future, if that person travels back in time and picks you up and brings you "back to the future".
$10 a bargain you say? How can they do it?
Well $10 today with 5% compounding interest will be worth $39,323,261,827.22 in 500 hundred years.
Gosh why didn't I think of this.... Probably because I'm normal, have a life, and don't believe Star Trek is based on a true story...
This is quite funny. You pay $10 and they invest it for you and promise it to someone, hundreds of years in the future, if that person travels back in time and picks you up and brings you "back to the future".
$10 a bargain you say? How can they do it?
Well $10 today with 5% compounding interest will be worth $39,323,261,827.22 in 500 hundred years.
Gosh why didn't I think of this.... Probably because I'm normal, have a life, and don't believe Star Trek is based on a true story...
Man and you thought I was weird. Check out this guy on www.truthlaidbear.com[sic]. Reminds me of Mel Gibson in the movie 'Conspiracy Theory'.
Having said all that, wouldn't it be creepy if this nut actually predicted something correctly....
Having said all that, wouldn't it be creepy if this nut actually predicted something correctly....
Thursday, August 22, 2002
Never let the truth get in the way of a good cause. It sounds like Greenpeace's attempts to rally the cause for global warming were a little exuberant.
I'm not one to laugh at people with disabilities but this is funny and even the people in question saw the funny side of it.
"Stupid is, as stupid does..." Mother suing everyone and anyone because her son was... stupid! Honestly!
Tuesday, August 20, 2002
This is a funky little addictive game where you have to move a cute thingy around the maze in order to push the little grey and red balls into the blue bin. Sounds simple eh? You have a go then!
Acno's Energiser
Enjoy!
Acno's Energiser
Enjoy!
This guy has a fascinating website and he talks about many things, including a project by some French scientists to send up a satellite to orbit the Earth for 50,000 years before crashing back for whoever is left to discover. It's going to be a time capsule and they are inviting people to send in email messages for the capsule. It kinda makes you think.... Here's the email this guy submitted:
Dear Futurefolk,
I sincerely hope that this message is being
read by a human, as opposed to a dirty,
horseback-riding, talking ape. That said, I'd
like to tell you that I'm utterly amazed
anyone managed to make it out of the 21st
century. What with the wars, plagues, global
warming and all the scary implications of the
genetic and technological innovations of
recent years, for anyone to have made it
past the year 2020 was quite a trick and I
applaud you on your hardiness. You're a very
resourceful crew, indeed.
I suppose someone either managed to rally
the earth's people and bring about some
social epiphany, ushering in a new era of
peace and enlightenment for mankind or -
more likely - you're a world of ultra-badass
motorcycling mutants with mohawks and
shotguns who've managed to shrewdly
survive by hoarding gas, killing those weaker
than yourselves and drinking your own urine
for sustenence. Hey, either way - good for
you!
By the way, how are the cockroaches?
Yours truly,
Jimmy Olsen - Your Simple, Barbaric
Ancestor
Dear Futurefolk,
I sincerely hope that this message is being
read by a human, as opposed to a dirty,
horseback-riding, talking ape. That said, I'd
like to tell you that I'm utterly amazed
anyone managed to make it out of the 21st
century. What with the wars, plagues, global
warming and all the scary implications of the
genetic and technological innovations of
recent years, for anyone to have made it
past the year 2020 was quite a trick and I
applaud you on your hardiness. You're a very
resourceful crew, indeed.
I suppose someone either managed to rally
the earth's people and bring about some
social epiphany, ushering in a new era of
peace and enlightenment for mankind or -
more likely - you're a world of ultra-badass
motorcycling mutants with mohawks and
shotguns who've managed to shrewdly
survive by hoarding gas, killing those weaker
than yourselves and drinking your own urine
for sustenence. Hey, either way - good for
you!
By the way, how are the cockroaches?
Yours truly,
Jimmy Olsen - Your Simple, Barbaric
Ancestor
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/
is a great site of hoaxes, including "Touristguy", a picture supposedly taken by a tourist on top of the World Trade Centre with a fast low flying passenger jet approaching in the background.
Roll Up! Roll Up! Roll Up!
Welcome to the inaugural post of "Rob's Friday Afternoon Weird Website Patrol".
The Concept
You know how it is... Friday afternoon in the office; all productivity finished about 11am Thursday and you're thinking about the weekend... The place is deathly silent. People all around you seem to be just tapping away at their PC's and you are cussing the sheer futility of this charade we call work, wishing you could be at the pub having that great three hour Friday liquid lunch you always hear others talk about.
That is until you realise what everyone else is doing; surfing the net. You wonder what great websites are helping your co-workers while away the sleepy afternoon hours. Then you think about the threashold that makes something else more interesting than work on a Friday afternoon and you start to get the picture.
Yes, Crap. Absolute "Bollocks on a webpage".
Anything, no matter how stupid or weird has to be tenfold more enthralling than that spreadsheet that is open in the other window. Or the broadcast email you are reading about the need to dress in keeping with the corporate image (What you mean cheap money hungry whore or lunatic in a straitjacket?) or sponsoring some co-worker idiot to bike the length of the country in order to feed a small starving child in the third world (send them a bag of rice and save everyone the hassle!).
The Solution
I have decided to make you life easier by saving you the pain of hours spent trawling the net for the best dribble and distractions. I will email every Friday afternoon the best I can find to whoever wants it and will also post them here, on this page, as I find them. BE WARNED it can get weird, really weird and really strange. "The management accepts no responisbility for any long term psychological damage resulting from following any hyperlinks displayed on this page or associated email"
If you want to receive the email, drop me a line here asking nicely.
If you don't want to recieve the emails anymore, write to me here or here explaining in no less that 1500 words why I should consider dropping you off the distro and what you are going to give me in compensation.
Welcome to the inaugural post of "Rob's Friday Afternoon Weird Website Patrol".
The Concept
You know how it is... Friday afternoon in the office; all productivity finished about 11am Thursday and you're thinking about the weekend... The place is deathly silent. People all around you seem to be just tapping away at their PC's and you are cussing the sheer futility of this charade we call work, wishing you could be at the pub having that great three hour Friday liquid lunch you always hear others talk about.
That is until you realise what everyone else is doing; surfing the net. You wonder what great websites are helping your co-workers while away the sleepy afternoon hours. Then you think about the threashold that makes something else more interesting than work on a Friday afternoon and you start to get the picture.
Yes, Crap. Absolute "Bollocks on a webpage".
Anything, no matter how stupid or weird has to be tenfold more enthralling than that spreadsheet that is open in the other window. Or the broadcast email you are reading about the need to dress in keeping with the corporate image (What you mean cheap money hungry whore or lunatic in a straitjacket?) or sponsoring some co-worker idiot to bike the length of the country in order to feed a small starving child in the third world (send them a bag of rice and save everyone the hassle!).
The Solution
I have decided to make you life easier by saving you the pain of hours spent trawling the net for the best dribble and distractions. I will email every Friday afternoon the best I can find to whoever wants it and will also post them here, on this page, as I find them. BE WARNED it can get weird, really weird and really strange. "The management accepts no responisbility for any long term psychological damage resulting from following any hyperlinks displayed on this page or associated email"
If you want to receive the email, drop me a line here asking nicely.
If you don't want to recieve the emails anymore, write to me here or here explaining in no less that 1500 words why I should consider dropping you off the distro and what you are going to give me in compensation.
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