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Play Scalextric in the office
As someone who likes to slack off wherever possible (just kidding if anyone important is reading this) the prospect of playing online Scalextric was just too good to be true, especially as it’s a real car, sort of.
The new Golf GTI launches in the UK on May 22nd, and as everyone who knows me is aware, I’m quite into my cars. To promote the release of the ultimate boy racer car, the folks and Volks have created an online Scalextric game where you can test out the new GTI on a virtual test track, using rendered video sequences for the race.
The game is just like the real thing whereby if you keep your finger firmly pressed on the controller you’ll find your car rapidly exiting the track, only to wait patiently while a chap in a white coat retrieves your GTI and places it, slowly, back on the road.
You can play the game online here and test your times against your mates, though I personally recommend playing against a 3 year old (that was always my tactic, and it proved very successful).
Worth mentioning too, if you set the course alight you could win a 3 month test drive of a real Golf GTI. I can’t imagine there’d be much left of one after 3 months if I drove it.
Cram it in your cram hole Lafleur
I was looking for some novelty t-shirts this week, something other than the standard Transformers t-shirt or the Mr T or Knight Rider t-shirt. I was looking for something along the same lines as my tattoo (which I may discuss later), something that was impossible for people to recognise unless they were fans of the particular series/film.
The idea came from a guy in work who has a Karate Kid t-shirt. Not the usual Daniel-san Karate Kid t-shirt I’ll have you know, oh no. This is the badge of Cobra Kai, the enemy of Mr Miyagi in the film’s series. Only true fans of the films would know this.
Luckily I found this novelty t-shirt website that offers shirts with such niche classics as the Karate Kid t-shirts, some Chuck Norris facts t-shirts and some of the brilliant Dodgeball t-shirts, like the title of this post from Ben Stiller’s character Wight Goodman ‘Cram in your cram hole Lafleur’ and the ‘Average Joes’ gym t-shirt.
These types of shirts are much cooler because most people won’t know what they mean.
I’m getting an ‘Average Joes’ by the way, although the Global Gym t-shirts were mighty tempting.
Dude, some monkeys stole my car
As someone who’s had his car nicked in the past, I can assure you that it’s not in the slightest bit funny. Unless of course your car is being nicked in bits by a load of theiving monkeys.
Check this video out, and watch out for the monkeys!
The best Guinness Commercial ever
Whilst browsing around some websites, killing some time, I came across this YouTube video of an Internet only advert for Guinness.
Guinness has some fantastic adverts, but this one really is the best ever. But, drinking Guinness from a bottle? It’s not right!
Onyx wine glasses
I recently bought some Onyx wine glasses on eBay to drink my wine out of, and look down in a superior fashion on the rest of the world. However, despite the abuse from my flat mate that I’m trying to seem all knowledgeable about wine like one of our friends, who we’ll call Eddie (his name actually is Eddie, I couldn’t be arsed changing it for the sake of the story) I have to protest that I just like the look of the stone glasses.
Now Eddie (our wine loving friend) is from North Manchester and constantly berates us for our lack of taste in wine whenever he’s over for a drink, but I feel I have to share this tale of the man’s class.
One night, while Eddie was drinking his £16 bottle of sweet wine (and getting very pissed, because he doesn’t drink much) he took a distaste to the fact that my flatmate had managed to find 3 bottles for £6 in the local shop. How did Eddie show his distaste for the cheap plonk? Did he spit it out? Did he throw an eloquent torrent of abuse directed at the poor excuse for a wine?
No, Eddie (in his best Bury manner) whipped out his knob and dunked it into the glass.
You can’t buy class.
Michael Jackson coffee scale
In a busy office environment it’s often better if one person makes a round of drinks for everyone, that way you don’t all leave your desk at the same time and the work flow isn’t interrupted too much. However, it’s difficult when making tea and coffee for five or more people when you have to do them all differently, sugar/no sugar, white/black, various degrees of milk. This is why I’ve come up with the Michael Jackson coffee scale. It’s simple and easy to understand, as everyone knows who Michael Jackson is, and what colour he was at different stages in his career.
For example, if you want a black coffee you ask for a 1968 Jacko, if you want it really milky you ask for a 2002 Jacko. If you like a splash of milk, you ask for a 1984 Jacko.
It’s very straightforward and everyone understands the scaling system. Plus, if you need one for your office wall, here’ a handy printout that you can paste up in your office. You can even use it to pantone match the colour of your coffee.
How do you take your Michael Jackson?
Download the Michael Jackson Coffee Scale PDF here.
The Student Property Shop, Leeds
You may remember the posts last year about the letting agent in Leeds who was featured on BBC’s Watchdog twice accused of withholding deposits from students. The posts received a lot of comments from students who were claiming their money had been withheld, and some of them got quite upset about the whole thing.
The letting agent in question is no longer located at the premises in Leeds, and a new letting agent by the name of The Student Property Shop is now in their place. Some students are sceptical about whether the companies are related, judging by the emails I have received on the subject.
Anyhow, I decided to have a look at the website for The Student Property Shop, which is www.thestudentpropertyshop.co.uk. The website is hosted with our old friends 1and1 Internet, on the IP address: 87.106.210.120. If that IP address seems familiar to you, it should. It’s the IP address of the website for My Homez, which can be seen at www.myhomez.co.uk.
So the two websites are hosted on the same server, with the same IP address. This doesn’t mean anything, except that the same person runs the account with 1and1 Internet.
However, when you dig deeper you find something a little more interesting. Have a look at this code for example.
<img id=”mainimage_back” src=”http://www.myhomez.co.uk/images/property/{DA84A2EE-9A01-4FDA-961A-151ABC9A6168}.jpg” alt=”Student property in Leeds” width=”275″ />
You can see that the code for the image is from the website for My Homez… except this code isn’t from the My Homez website at all… it’s from the website for The Student Property Shop.
Here’s a screenshot from the code itself.
I wonder why they’ve done that?
Again, this doesn’t necessarily mean that My Homez and The Student Property Shop are in any way related, but if they’re not, The Student Property Shop are stealing images from My Homez.
So, to find out more about The Student Property Shop I clicked on their contact us, and found that the map the website uses (from Google Maps) didn’t work. The reason for this? Well, just read the alert from Google in the below screenshot.
Seems the API key for Google maps was registered for a different website. Anyone care to hazard a guess at what website that is?