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As I had written about before, Airborne is rubbish. If you still think it does anything, be clear that all you are doing is buying a very expensive multi-vitamin with no additional protection against getting the cold. Since my lady didn’t listen to me, we have probably spent over $50 in the past year buying this dream.

The good thing now is that I can claim some of that money back. There’s a form you fill out and you can make a claim. I still never understood why people would put a magic potion created by a school teacher down their throats and be surprised that it does jack shit.

Also mentioned here.

Situation:
Apparently in Romania they still have traffic cops that divert traffic. Unfortunately, they do not do a good job at it and have been causing inprecise movements and such.

Solution:

Send all the male cops to ballet class so that they can train to be more graceful. Yeah….that’s the solution. And yes, it is a much better solution than deploying automated traffic lights like the rest of the world because you have a cop doing ballet movements in the middle of the street.

I remember the days of the fake ID. Actually, I think I just borrowed the ID from my roommate Cliff in college cuz for some reason he was 21 when I was 18. Not sure what happened there other than that he wanted to hit on freshmen chicks.

What I have learned over the years are the rules of a fake ID:
1. Do not create a fake ID for your own state
2. Do not make a crazy name like McLovin
3. Do not go too crazy with address and birthday because you need to be able to recite everything on there….drunk.

So I created one for my friend Jose yesterday that I think came out quite well:

He’s so gonna get booze and score.

Everytime I talk to Workmonkey about downloading shit, he comes back with an accusatory remark like, “..and I bet you didn’t pay for that download.”. The same guy grabbing Mp3s off of Limewire and Nelly for the past 5 years isn’t exactly the model of digital rights compliance.

I remember Napster, I remember Napster’s end (and my friend Hector’s end of job), and then Limewire, Kazaa, and BitTorrent. All these services do the same thing, which is fill up your music player with music that you don’t pay for. As much as the RIAA would like this to stop, it is like banning alcohol, drugs, or building a big wall between the US and Mexico…impossible.

So finally, the music companies have started to yield and you can actually download unlimited tracks for free legally now. Real songs (not just crap public domain stuff) from real artists starting today. Pretty cool, I’ll be downloading to see how well it works. Now we just need to get the movie industry, software manufacturers, game manufacturers, and pr0n manufacturers to do the same thing.

I told you about phenomenon known as the the Soulja Boy dance sweeping the nation and apparently some white local traffic correspondents have taken to it to their careers’ demise. (from Watty)

The cool thing though, is that the sound engineer showed off a dance even better than the Soulja Boy in this clip and makes it all worthwhile…despite the traffic correspondent.

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Happy New Year to everybody. This year my resolutions will be:

1. Lose 1 stone and gain a stone of muscle.
2. Detox
3. Wellness
4. Launch multi-billion dollar company
5. Travel the world
6. Cure cancer

That should do it. Baby steps…like in 2005.

I think advertising is a bunch of shite (esp the CapitalOne bullshite), but sometimes an ad gets produced that I enjoy by the better talent in advertising. Here’s a print ad that I saw in Barely L…um, I mean…Maxim:

Don’t show this to your shorties unless it to get them to stop throwing stuff otherwise you will get the boogiemen on them.

I had my team offsite today for the holidays and I gotta say it is one of the more memorable ones. Here’s what my day consisted of:

1. Business Strategy. Blah Blah
2. Karting: Now we’re talking. Lewis Hamilton style. After all those years of playing Grand Turismo and Grand Theft Auto, it is cool to actually put the pedal to the medal and…well…spin out. This is supposedly one of the biggest tracks in the world where you get go-karts that go ~30-40 mph. This ain’t bumper cars, folks. There is no contact and you actually have to pay serious attention to what you’re doing. We broke up into a warm up, qualifiers, and then two 20-minute heats. At the end we got printouts with lap times and everything.

After years of playing video games where I just keep the accelerator down the whole time, it became very evident that it would not work here. If you hit the turns too quickly and try to break while turning, you’ll be arsed out. Bloody hell. I’m sure you’ve heard that you are supposed to break on the straightaways before the turn and then accelerate through the turn. It all sounds good except when actually trying to do it. One hell of an adrenaline rush, though.

3. Secret Santa: I purchased a hand-powered LED flashlight as a gift (since I am green) and ended up with How to get an ASBO. It was going smoothly until I realised that someone had actually purchased a Long Island Iced Tea and put it under the tree as an item someone would get. WTF. Talk about completely changing the game.

The premise of white elephant is pretty simple:
1. Person A is up.
2. Person A can either choose a wrapped gift or steal a gift from another person.
3. If Person A steals Person B’s gift, Person B then go to #2.

Exceptions:
1. You cannot steal back a gift
2. A gift can only be stolen 3 times.

Pretty simple game, that is until someone puts a Long Island under the tree. Without the Long Island, the element of surprise is there for all items and therefore the last person up may unwrap the last gift, thus ending the game. With the Long Island Factor, the game does not end. This completely changes the strategy of the game.

Traditional White Elephant Strategy:
1. Steal for highest valued item that has been stolen twice.
2. If none, search for highest valued item above mean.
3. If not desireable, unwrap gift.
4. If gift is not desireable…hard sell it until someone takes pity or decides they want it due to persuation. I was selling nougat and truffle filling pretty hard today.

Long Island Factor
While the general strategy is still the same, it is much stronger on getting out of the game with anything but the Long Island even if it is not the most desireable. That is how I ended up with the ASBO book. Bollocks. The game ultimately ended when someone decided to take one for the team. Good man. Bloody ASBO.

4. Pub. Like any good British event, there is always a nice evening at the pub eating pate, pigs in sausage (is there a name for that?), sliders, and some kind of a tart.

All in all a good holiday offsite with some good twists and turns (yeah, I came up with that all by myself).

mRP08 showed me the trailer of the upcoming Rambo movie that looks to be the biggest and baddest one of the series. The shiz looks tight with over the top special effects, advanced weaponry, and crazy stunts. It’s the whole package.

I recall the days of raves and techno-enhanced trances. Good old days. This video helps recreate some of that feeling. Also some of the feeling of Star Wars mixed with some Punisher and the crazy homeless guy in San Francisco that Workmonkey once attempted to fight (but Workmonkey fled in fear)