TEN YEARS OF NOTHING - not one fucking thing!

[C.I.A.]

Zomg so completely and utterly over DAF calculations. Especially after discovering during a read-through of the final copy that the input parameters for source COPC should be meters cubed instead of length of contamination source parallel to groundwater flow direction.

I don't want to model this again. Sick and need to be in bed, not in office with headache/fever/grumpy clients on phone.

Fuck it. Let the frogs die and the platypus eggs crack. Do not care any more.

[DBoy]

Needs more heroic leadership CIA - the little furies need you!

[JAMESSSS]

CIA I'm alarmed at your lack of "get up and go". Perhaps one of those 500ml Red Bulls might help?

FOR THE ANIMAL'S SAKES.

[Blaxter]

Work is going slow.
Not enough High Performance Stiffened Structures

[Lizkins]

The author of this essay, Hugh Gallagher, now attends NYU

3A. ESSAY
IN ORDER FOR THE ADMISSIONS STAFF OF OUR COLLEGE TO GET TO KNOW YOU, THE
APPLICANT, BETTER, WE ASK THAT YOU ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: ARE THERE
ANY SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE HAD, OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS YOU HAVE
REALIZED, THAT HAVE HELPED TO DEFINE YOU AS A PERSON?

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have
been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more
efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban
refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently.
Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot
bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute
Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and
an outlaw in Peru.

Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended
a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I
play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous
documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard.
I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical
appliances free of charge.

I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics
worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't
perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been
caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New
Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat .400. My
deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles.
Children trust me.

I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I
once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and
still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the
exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed
several covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep,
I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated
with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of
physics do not apply to me.

I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On
weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago
I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made
extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I
breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving
competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played
Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.

But I have not yet gone to college.

that is gold!!!

[C.I.A.]

Re-ran the models. Frogs will be saved. Platypus will thrive. Fixies will rust.

Heh. Can't really stay grumpy. Been volunteering with a soup van and the people I serve put me to shame with their wisdom and optimistic outlook.

Those who have nothing have so much to give.

[Amick]

Mornin' folks!

[system]

[JAMESSSS]

Looks like the screen is beginning to bulge a bit on the back System.

You'd probably better that that to the closest Apple store and get a Genius to look at it.

[Blaxter]

I showed out It guy and he wasn't amused. must be a PC guy.

[ghetto kitty]

apple.

morning guys!

[Jinx]

[deviant]

it should though tbh

[apophenian]

^^^ +1

[ghetto kitty]

not much love in here these days.

WHY?

MORNING......

[youthful_implants]

hai kitty!

[ghetto kitty]

alex!

[Blaxter]

Hi there Bo,

Maybe Farcebook is to blame. Or no one works in offices anymore?

[Amick]

mb.c probably blocked by most IT dept.'s

i know i got it blocked at my last job from posting during office hours. lol.

[witty_pseudonym]

i will die if that happens.
productivity ftl.

[ghetto kitty]

OH HAIIII BLAXTER, WITTY AND AMICK

its my job to be here dammit

[Blaxter]

Yeah its been blocked here a few times.
Somehow I got it back but lost facebook.

Nice Kitty. I like to think it's my right to be here.

[mixtress]

Another one. What the fuck is wrong with Ralph Lauren advertisers It's not like the model looks bad in the original pic, why alter it?

[Amick]

That's all shades of wrong.

If you own a Ralph Lauren polo this is what you endorse.

[Hardy]

That's all shades of wrong.

If you own a Ralph Lauren polo this is what you endorse.

Meh. I wouldn't single out RL. All brands do it, it's par for the course these days.

[Amick]

That's all shades of wrong.

If you own a Ralph Lauren polo this is what you endorse.

Meh. I wouldn't single out RL. All brands do it, it's par for the course these days.

Not singling them out i'm well aware of that, just saying how irresponsible it is to endorse these companies by buying their products.

[ghetto kitty]

firstly, do you think 'Big City Woman' gets kate moss to model, then stretches her out to a size 18?



and secondly, you would be hard pressed to find ANY big company that does not have serious ethical compromises these days imo, from child labour to photchopping models, to dubious import/export etc

can anyone name one multinational company that is totally ethically sound?

Even red cross and greenpeace have their grey areas!

[Blaxter]

Dischord Records.

[Blaxter]

Oh fuck, I guess a multinaltional company needs offices in more than one country right?

[ghetto kitty]

hahah YES.

tbh I cant think of one.

the world is fucked.

[Blaxter]

I couldn't think of one either Kitty but I did a search and came up with this.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/vi ... tinational

HSBC for the win (apparently)

[ghetto kitty]

yeah but they are a BANK - instant ethical fail imo.

[Blaxter]

Any company is an instant ethical fail with that reasoning.

[ghetto kitty]

How is that exactly?

[Amick]

can anyone name one multinational company that is totally ethically sound?

I think there are I just don't have a list of every multinational company in front of me.

You can't generalize and assume every multinational company aren't ethically sound. That's borderline ignorance.

[ghetto kitty]

I can do what I want

Seriously, find me one. From cutting corners one can justify to one's community in small business, there is a lot of things that can be compromised by the time you get to multinational.

At the end of the day, 'ethics' themselves can be a matter of opinion, but im pretty sure you would be hard up to find a multinational that operates completely cleanly, from every outsiders/contractors/customers perspective.

Not ignorant, realistic.

[Amick]

At the end of the day

With that cliche I can't take you seriously.

[youthful_implants]

Another one. What the fuck is wrong with Ralph Lauren advertisers It's not like the model looks bad in the original pic, why alter it?

they're fucking dickheads thats what. I dont know the creative director involved in recommending such treatment but he should be fired, its farcical.

hmmmm hawt

[Blaxter]

I can think of companies that sell product and have distreibution in multiple countries which is pretty much all Coca Cola is. So on that basis, I 'm going with Dischor Records as an ethical multinational.

http://www.dischord.com/

[Amick]

I can think of companies that sell product and have distreibution in multiple countries which is pretty much all Coca Cola is. So on that basis, I 'm going with Dischor Records as an ethical multinational.

http://www.dischord.com/

Coca Cola Amatil have offices and factories in multiple countries. Hence multinational. But you really like Dischord Records so whatev's. Might have to check out some tunes now.

[Blaxter]

Haha. Nice one Amick.

Cocal-Cola sold all their territories years ago. Ammatil have become somewhat of a conglomerate. One of the biggest fuck ups in corporate history. Theres a real good book about that and more, def worth checking out.

But worth checking out even more are Dischord Records - apparently one of the most ethical multinational compainies in the world.

[C.I.A.]

Earthwatch is pretty ethical. I did research that was supported by them, and my supervisor got awarded an Order of Australia for his work that was also funded by them.


http://www.earthwatch.org/australia/new ... ust08.html


Then again, they are a not-for-profit organisation...

[ghetto kitty]

Yeah, NFP orgs dont really count i think, they are mostly set up to make everyone else aware of/adhere to ethics!

Great that you worked for them cia!

[Blaxter]

I worked for Earthwatch as a canvasser and found them to be be pretty dodgy. But I think its across the board with the way canvassors are treated.

[C.I.A.]

I worked for Earthwatch as a canvasser and found them to be be pretty dodgy. But I think its across the board with the way canvassors are treated.

Is that where you have to get people's attention in the street? Wow. Would have sucked.

I didn't work with the company, I just got loads of people from overseas to help me to collar and radiotrack koalas... couldn't have done the research without the extra hands and I know other scientists who say the same thing.

Koalas are one of the most retarded vertebrates still in existance. Not much protein for brain development in those gum-leaves! Brain the size of a small walnut lolz. We used to catch them by getting a pole with a flag on the end... wave it in front of the koala and it would crawl backwards down the tree into the bag we would hold out.

[JAMESSSS]

By the logic above I declare any company which turns a profit unethical.

They should be giving it up for the people and the love of it.

And then we will all dance around a campfire and chant and play drums we made during the day.

[Amick]

I can't dance so i'll drum instead.

[JAMESSSS]

You can make dog leashes out of rope.

[Blaxter]

Wouldn't be unethical to keep dogs on leads?

[ghetto kitty]

Fine, the Mb majority decrees that most companies are true and just,
that any questioning of said multinationals must be due to being a stinky hippy,
that capitalism isnt just the framework our society, it should be loved!

ffs.