What do the San Francisco Police and the British Royal Navy have in common?
Posted on December 11, 2005 ·
The talent to produce satirical / scandalous (pick one) videos.
Video scandal rocks S.F. police, says the Chronicle. Hm.. Most Politically Incorrectly, I tend to side with Patrick, in that a stupid little prank got blown way out of proportion. Nevertheless, the genie is out of the bottle, and now there is no turning back.
But wait… if these videos were scandalous, then what exactly is the British Royal Navy’s interpretation of Bohemian Rhapsody (by the Queen)? Produced on board the HMS Campbelltown while on patrol in the Indian Ocean:
If for some reason the embedded video does not play, watch it here.
Tags: SFPD, Navy, Royal Navy, Queen, Parody, Satire, Scandal, Police Video, Politics, Humor
Bound, Hung: Sickening Santa Display
Posted on December 8, 2005 ·
A large blindfolded Santa hanging from a noose from a high tree in a man’s yard has angered homeowners in a Florida neighborhood, according to a Local 6 News report.
The Santa also has his hands and legs bound by some type of wire.
Neighbors have called police to get it removed, but officers said there is nothing they can do because the homeowner is protected under the First Amendment.
What kind of a sicko would do this? Not to Santa, but to the children in his own neighborhood.
Tags: Santa, Cruelty, First Amendment, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech
Martha’s Song
Posted on December 8, 2005 ·
Martha’s Apprentice candidates are preparing a commercial for Song. How fitting… a failed show promoting a failed airline:-(
Tags: Apprentice, Martha Stewart, RealityTV, reality show, Television, Song, Delta
Scissors on Fligthts???? TSA Nonsense
Posted on December 2, 2005 ·
What exactly do air travelers need scissors for on a flight? The 9/11 hijackers used boxcutters … now we’re making it easier? The new TSA regulations are total nonsense.
Other bloggers on the subject: here, here, here and here… just to pick a few.
Update (12/02).
The Department of Homeland Security’s current list of most-confiscated objects from people getting on airplanes:
| Lighters | 8,124,525 |
| Sharp objects | 3,041,218 |
| Knives and blades | 1,650,894 |
| –Less than 3 inches | 1,599,103 |
| –3 inches or longer | 51,791 |
| Tools | 819,450 |
| Flammables/irritants | 362,613 |
| Ammunition and gunpowder | 21,939 |
| Box cutters | 19,499 |
| Clubs, bats and bludgeons | 19,183 |
hat tip: Paul Kedrosky.
3 million sharp objects + 1.6 million knives and blades … and now it’s OK to bring them on board? Insane.
Upate 2 (12/03) TSA Approves In-flight Party Favors
Tags: TSA, Airline Security, Airport Security, Homeland Security
12 Satellite Dishes, 5000+ Channels, 32 TV Sets.
Posted on November 30, 2005 ·
No, I don’t have all those.
Al Jessup has the 12 dishes, beaming in over 5000 TV and radio channels:
(The Register-Herald, via Bareknucklepolitics)
But where to watch all this? He only has 3 TV sets in the house … perhaps he should join forces with Webster McBride of Berkeley, CA, who collected 32 TV sets .. some used as patio furniture.
Resumercial: Another Business Process ReEngineered
Posted on November 27, 2005 ·
(updated)
Just minutes after I posted “ Rebates: the Business Process that will Never be Re-engineered “ I’ve discovered Resumercial, a completely reenginered approach to the process of getting hired – or not. Watch the video here. (originally found on digg)
Kudos for creativity. Too bad he applied for a Product Management position and failed to mention a single word of his qualification in that area. Oh, well, perhaps this was just the beta, and he’ll fix it by Rel 1.0. Actually, that might be smart when you apply to Google .. after all, most of their products are in permanent Beta…
Talk about releases… have you noticed how I use the term ReEnginered? That’s the web-version (albeit 1.0), using the form Re-enginered would have been sooooo 90’s 🙂
Update (12/8): I don’t know if Resumercial worked or not, but here’s another approach, that apparently works: Hire Me, Google.
Tags: Hiring, Job Market, Job Applications, Google, Re-engineering, Reenginering, Resumercial
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