Archives for "October, 2006"

Posted by Markus on 30th October 2006
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Gruba Goo!

The last two weeks have been filled with way too much work, but now it’s finally done. We’ve been working on a new energy drink for the last 9 months and we got it done last thursday. So, last weekend I was just creating a dent in my man-sized couch while playing Oblivion on my [...]

Posted by Markus on 11th October 2006
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Hundred

Whoa. We just passed a hundred posts. We also passed the one year mark.. but that was 7 months ago, well .. we can celebrate our 2 years then. np: Creep from the album “Pablo Honey” by Radiohead

Posted by benesek on 8th October 2006
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Natural design

I’d like to take a couple of minutes to talk about biomimetics. “?” some of you may be asking right now. For those of you not familiar with the term, this is design that has been inspired by nature – for example, how many of you knew that Velcro was inspired by the burr on [...]

Posted by benesek on 8th October 2006
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Spy jobs

In a moment of idle banter with Markus recently the new Bond film came up. We agreed it will, in all likelihood, both blow and suck. However this did lead us into a conversation about spies. He remarked that one as short as I wouldn’t pass muster. In a roundabout fashion I retorted that one [...]

Posted by Markus on 3rd October 2006
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Pirates & Helicopters

Went apple hunting today after work and whilst driving back with a trunk full of fresh apples, we started talking of work. Now, people have a lot of benefits from their work – the better workers are the better their benefits are. It got me thinking of how good an employee would have to be [...]

Posted by Markus on 1st October 2006
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Taxing Taxis

5:30 AM. We just got home and we’re cold, pissed off and tired. Why? Well, let me tell you a little story. About twelve hours before, I was preparing my wife to a surprise party for her to celebrate her birthday. It had been two weeks in the making and everything was going excellently. She [...]

Posted by benesek on 1st October 2006
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Bad Apple

Only a couple of points to mention quickly (I’ve been pretty slack about writing for the last couple of weeks but I have my reasons) The first point is for those of you who haven’t come across him before, you should religiously follow the writings of a certain Dr. Ben Goldacre (self-described serious fuck-off academic [...]