Being an office worker bee myself I can appreciate a good joke to lighten up the day. Of course the most fun are the most original pranks. Until now, this is about the most original I’ve seen.
Via Sports Illustrated.
Monthly Archive for February, 2009
Just a quick heads up.
Since this is my personal blog, it can now also be reached through reneslaats.nl and reneslaats.com.
If there’s anyone who can talk about the difference in jobs, it’s Mike Rowe. He is the presenter of Dirty Jobs, a show on the Discovery Channel. For those not in the know, on the show Mike spends a day doing all kinds of jobs with one similarity: you get filthy. Mix that premise with his unique and humorous presenting style and you get a very entertaining show.
Here’s the video of his presentation on the 2008 Entertainment Gathering conference. Besides bringing his wit and telling one of his stories from the show, he talks about the insights he gathered while doing his job. He makes an interesting case against the “Finding your passion”-way of looking at jobs, while sharing his theory on why we declared war on the kind of work he shows on tv.
He does have a valid point: manual labor needs to get the credit that it’s due.
(via DesignVerb)
Welcome to the new home of the Ylliks blog!
This blog will be a continuation of my former Blogger-hosted blog (all posts of that have been imported here) and as of today will serve as my personal outlet and home on the web.
The new home will have some changes. The Weekly Linkages, which were featured so prominently, will not return. Although it has been fun to create them, I think it’s time for me to move towards more single subject posts. Most of those will still feature things I find on the web, but there will be more observations and personal related things. Don’t worry though: the odd, strange or funny thing will still pop up every once in a while. I’m aiming to post at least once or twice a week.
For a bit of technical information, the blog is hosted by Webreus, is run on the excellent blogging software of WordPress with some added plug-ins and features the Minimalism theme (albeit tweaked) from Genaehr.
Thanks go out to Graham to let me mess about with WordPress on his server in preparation for this. Thanks buddy!
So once again welcome to the new home and if you want to keep up to date with everything, please be so kind to subscribe to the RSS-feed or bookmark the site.
Hope to see you soon again!
