What is or are “Thamls”? Predictive text obviously thinks it or they are very important because it prioritises it/them over the word “Thanks”. A cursory search in the usual places didn’t shed any light on this burning issue. Meanwhile it remains a right royal pain in the “appe”. Thamls a lot predictive text.
Geeks…
Golfers…
Rockstars…
Togas…
Watch this space….
Here at Blonde we love to create rock solid code. That’s why Jon and Rob feel much more comfortable going about their daily craft in Guitar Hero mode
Get your rock on at Jam Legend
Next, Garry and his Rock Band foot-pedal Ubuntu iMac.
Just back in from a holiday in Mallorca. Spent most of the time playing with the kids in, or reading books by, the pool. However, the occasional venture into “civilisation” brought to light the usual mildly amusing cultural cross-overs that happen in a summer holiday melting pot like this. Who fairs better out of this exchange?
We gave them Tennent’s Lager, Sky Sports and Setanta.
They gave us Bimbo Sandwich!
A very bright and very funny planner once told me a story from his days as a teenager in Dalgety Bay. This was in the early 1980’s, at the height of the Citizen Band (CB) radio craze.
He’d made a “copy” (contact) with someone in the same “10-20″ (location). Having exchanged “handles” (nicknames) and some small talk, they agreed to use their radios to actually meet up.
Rather than simply agreeing on a specific rendez-vous point, they devised an intricate game whereby they gave each other frequent micro status updates over the airwaves - “Big Bear is heading west”, “Deputy Dawg is passing a playground”, “Big Bear is going down hill” - until they eventually met up on a grassy knoll next to the Tesco carpark. At this point, mission accomplished, it became sadly apparent to both parties that they had nothing else to say each other. So they mumbled goodbyes from inside their snorkel parkas and went their separate ways.
So let’s look again at the characteristics of the leading edge, coolest social medium of 28 years ago.
Its users contributed to the dialogue under the guise of funny pseudonymns.
It had an associated language made up of medium-specific codes and slang expressions.
Users invented reasons to communicate purely so that they could use the technology.
And they basically had little or nothing in common aside from their use of the same said technology.
Hmmm.
What a few late nights and a little ambition can do…
We were batting around some Coors Light ideas in London yesterday. For reasons that I won’t go into, the “other Phil” and I were both simultaneously reminded of this clip. Genius. They don’t make them like this any more.
Not only has he got a whole category devoted to him, he’s now apparently buying T-shirts with the sole purpose of getting them featured on the blog. If it hadn’t been such a long time since our last post I’d have deliberately ignored this one.
Not sure what the whole Edward Bananahands thing is about either.
