Archive for July, 2008
Monday, July 28th, 2008
Sifty Marketing, Part Deux
Spotted in the Downtown Foodtown Supermarket.
A good reason why you should always remember to take your Onecard with you when shopping.
Just think, if I’d bought like, 1000 500g packets of cous cous, I could have saved, like, $10.00!
No Comments » - Posted in observations by michelle
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
1970s Computer Operator Wanted
We discovered an old newspaper classified section stuffed into a plastered hole in one of our window frames.
There weren’t any dates, but the phone numbers, and miscellaneous other clues suggest it was probably from January 1976.
Amongst the wanted section there was this job advertisement calling for an ICL 1904 computer operator for Wattie Industries:
A bit [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in IT, house by michelle
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Danger! High Voltage!
Just when we were about to go to bed, an army of firemen, firetrucks, cameras, and some sort of hazmobile park themselves in front of the smiley house.*
The neighbours had a gas leak, with the power earthed through the gas pipe. Apparently there was sparking, gas smells, and their house about to go [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Excitment, house by michelle
Monday, July 21st, 2008
Sifty Marketing
Now I appreciate that the marketing division at SC Johnson must be under pressure to come up with new creative ways to get consumers to buy more of their product sooner. But surely this is a bit mean?
What next, the folks at Sanitarium start producing hour-glass shaped peanut butter jars?
No Comments » - Posted in observations by michelle
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
The End of Mustard
It’s Thursday night and Beau is traveling down the North Western Motorway, en route to pick me up from the Auckland Blood Donor Centre.
His plans are thwarted.
Suddenly there’s a bang and an immediate very disturbing rattling noise emanating from underneath the bonnet. The car behind backs off. Moments later, the engine [...]