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The meaning of life ... doughnutsThe meaning of life ... doughnutsLife is a funny old thing sometimes. This blog is a collection of my comments on life and daily events or news stories, and various fun things I've found on the internets ... enjoy Articles
Rogue trader to cost SocGen $7bn
2008-01-24 23:04:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Looks like Nick Leeson might have lost his title, originally uploaded by NELVEY.com. Looks like Nick Leeson might have lost his title. More About: Cost , Rogue , Rogue Trader
Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma
2008-01-19 14:16:00 A bit of culture for a Saturday morning.Rest in Peace. Live in Paris 1998 - Probably the most emotional edition of this masterpiece yet. More About: Video , Pavarotti , Nessun Dorma
Restaurant mistake
2008-01-18 14:39:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Restaurant mistake, originally uploaded by NELVEY.com. There were red faces all round at a London restaurant earlier this week when a group of finance types, including the head of fixed income at a top 50 global money manager, got their bill after a good night out on the town. Apparently one of the waiters was playing around with the electronic billing system, which automatically sends food orders over to the kitchen. The silly idiot forgot to erase the first item on the bill before offering it up for payment (portion of bill pictured in the box on the top right of this article. I've censored the offending word on grounds of good taste). The diners received a free bottle of wine for the 'c.ck up'. More About: Mista
Who killed the electric car?
2008-01-18 01:49:00 You need to watch this ... but make sure you're sitting comfortably More About: Video , Electric , Electric Car , Killed
NYC weather
2008-01-04 13:06:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Weather 1.jpg, originally uploaded by NELVEY.com. You have to love a New York January ... brrrrrrrrrr
Happy New Year
2008-01-01 15:10:00 Happy new Year all. We just got back from Canada so I should start to update this blog again soon. More About: Diary , New Year , Happy , Happy New Year
Do people believe this?
2007-12-16 19:37:00 Found on the side of a grocery bags for Kings. More About: Diary , People
Announcing the new Meaning of Life ? Doughnuts podcast.
2007-12-11 16:56:00 Over the last few years I?ve been playing around with videos, you may have seen some of them on my website (NELVEY.com) or on this blog. To make it easier to keep up with these videos I?ve created a podcast feed that will contain these videos and various other thing I find on the internet (audio and video) that I feel are worth sharing with you all.The podcast is hosted by the good people at Podshow and the link to the show is as follows:http://doughnuts.podshow.com/I hope you enjoy the show! More About: Life , Podcast , Meaning , Meaning of life , Anno
Do Any Of Your Firm Staff Have Celebrity Names ?
2007-12-07 14:35:00 Here is the City wanted to know whether there's anyone on your firm's payroll with a famous name. This is the list so far (a spot of fun for Friday).ABBEY'Abbey has a Dick Turpin!'.ABN AMRO'We have a Richard Attenborough in IT - but he rarely calls us 'darling'!'.Bank of America'There's a guy over here called David Beckham'.'There's a Michael Douglas in our Bromley office and a Kirk Douglas in our Baltimore office - talk about keep it in the family!'.Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi'We have a Michael Bolton in London (without the hair)!'.Barclays'There's a guy over here called Clive James'.Bear Stearns'We have a Jimmy Stewart and a Walter Pidgeon'.Citi'There's someone in the US in Wealth Management called Indiana Jones!'.Credit Suisse'Credit Suisse has Jim Morrison. He runs Global Lateral Recruiting and is a great guy'.Deutsche Bank'There's a Jonathan Ross at Deutsche Bank'.HSBC'There a guy in IT called Bruce Lee - neither a martial arts expert nor dead!'.JPMo... More About: Celebrity , Staff , Names
Iphones take over the internet
2007-12-05 19:06:00 We?ve always felt that the iPhone?s game-changing feature was its Web browser. Now we have proof: iPhone owners were responsible for nearly one out of every 1,000 Web page views last month. This erases any doubt that the future of mobile devices most certainly includes the Web.Many phones have Web browsers, but most of the time these were made specifically for mobile devices and only give phone owners access to watered-down versions of Web sites. The iPhone has the same browser as Apple?s computers, meaning iPhone owners can see the same version of Web pages people see on their PCs.IPhone owners embraced the browser to the extent that they represented 0.09% of all Web pages viewed in November. That doesn?t sound like much, but consider that through September, Apple had only sold 1.4 million iPhones. As a point of comparison, devices running every version of Windows mobile operating system combined made up 0.06% of Web page views. Companies have been making mobile devices that run Wi... More About: Internet , The Internet
Proud to be British
2007-12-04 23:03:00 Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, and then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV. And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything foreign. Oh and only in Britain can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.Only in Britain ... do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.Only in Britain ... do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries and a DIET coke.Only in Britain ... do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counters.Only in Britain ... do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.Only in Britain ... do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't w... More About: Proud
The Great Krispy Kreme Donut caper
2007-12-04 22:25:00 Cash bail of $2,100 was set today for Warren G. Whitelightning of Crandon, the man who allegedly led police on a high-speed chase through Madison?s west after stealing a Krispy Kreme Donut truck when he was drunk early Saturday morning. Whitelightning was officially charged in Dane County Circuit Court today in a criminal complaint alleging several offenses. He is being charged with shoplifting eight giant red hot pickled sausages from the Open Pantry on University Avenue, stealing the doughnut truck, ramming a University of Wisconsin Police car, attempting to elude pursuing officers, operating after revocation, his fourth time drunk driving, and a hit and run. Assistant District Attorney Michael Verveer conceded that the scene described in the criminal complaint of several squad cars chasing a donut truck around the west side could elicit laughter from many. ?Because what you have is two different police agencies chasing the defendant in a stolen Krispy Kreme donut truck with donut... More About: Great , The G
First snow of winter 2007
2007-12-02 13:43:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSC02152.JPG, originally uploaded by NELVEY.com. Look what we woke up to this morning. More About: Winter , Snow
Police hunt for stolen Guinness
2007-11-30 17:23:00 Gardai in Dublin are on the lookout for 36,000 pints of beer stolen from the Guinness brewery.More than 400 kegs were stolen in what is likely to be the largest carry-out of drink this Christmas.A man drove a truck into the yard on Wednesday, and left with a trailer containing 180 Guinness kegs, 180 Budweiser kegs, and 90 Carslberg kegs.Police estimated the haul to be worth at least 64,000 euros (£46,000), at wholesale prices.However, this figure would be considerably more if Dublin pub prices were charged.The robbery occurred the same day as a special Garda operation known as Freeflow was launched to ease traffic congestion and combat drink-driving over Christmas.Freeflow officers manning many checkpoints across the city are expected now also to be on the look out for any large quantity of stolen drink flowing through Dublin's traffic.The stolen trailer has since been found at Slane Hill in County Meath. It was empty.Source: BBC More About: Stolen , Hunt
Google ad sense video player
2007-11-30 12:51:00 Watch the latest videos on YouTube.com More About: Video , Google , Sense , Player , Ad sense
Britain's Favorite Word is ........
2007-11-23 21:33:00 ?Nincompoop? is Britain?s favorite wordA British survey has found ?nincompoop? to be the nation?s favorite word of the 16,500 entries in the Cambridge Dictionary.The survey of more than 2,000 Britons found 13 percent of respondents chose ?nincompoop? ? which likely derived from the Latin ?non compos mentis,? which means someone not of a sound mind ? as their favorite sounding English word, The Daily Mail reported Thursday.The poll, commissioned by Ubisoft, makers of the language computer game ?My Word Search,? found ?love? was the second most popular word among those polled and ?mum? was third.?The results demonstrate our passion for language and the sentiment we attach to words such as love and mum,? Ubisoft spokesman Mike Masuku said. ?It also highlights how narrow most people?s vocabulary has become.??Gaming offers a fun way to learn,? he said. ?Users of every age can benefit from learning new words and their meanings without feeling they are being preached to or patronized.? More About: Favorite , Favor
For sale
2007-11-14 20:16:00 You know I was thinking the other day how much this blog is very similar to the likes of Myspace, Face Book etc. That is to say we both attract daily visitors, and neither of us have a proven business model for generating any income (we try advertising but this blog only makes about USD1 per month, so is it really worth it?). Therefore using the recent price announcements as a comparison:MyspaceNo of unique visitor per month: 109millionValuation: USD10billionCost per visitor: USD92FacebookNo of unique visitor per month: 61millionValuation: USD15billionCost per visitor: USD247This should mean that with my average of 64 unique visitors each month that this blog is worth between USD5,888 and USD15,808 ..... any offers? I guess this just shows you how ridiculous these valuations really are, unless they do have a planned business model and can make some real cash in the future. More About: Diary , For Sale , Sale
Blue screen
2007-11-13 23:03:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Blue screen, originally uploaded by NELVEY.com. At one of Toronto?s locations of The Bay department store, four giant screens have suffered from the infamous Blue Screen of Death for days.
Free Rice
2007-11-10 18:27:00 Improve your vocabulary and help out the third world. Everytime you get an answer correct 10 grains of rice will be donated to help the third world .... what do you have to lose? More About: Free , Rice
Most ridiculous British law
2007-11-08 20:56:00 1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store4. Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day 5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter 6. A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman's helmet 7. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail of the queen 8. It is illegal to avoid telling the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing 9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour 10. In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow More About: Ridiculous
Planters
2007-11-04 13:50:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Planters, originally uploaded by NELVEY.com. Who thought this would be a good idea?
Longest Living Animal? A 400-year-old clam.
2007-10-30 18:43:00 Can you imagine living for four centuries? A team of scientists from Bangor University?s School of Ocean Sciences believe they have found an animal which did just that, a quahog clam, Arctica islandica, which was living and growing on the seabed in the cold waters off the north coast of Iceland for around 400 years.When this animal was a juvenile, King James I replaced Queen Elizabeth I as English monarch, Shakespeare was writing his greatest plays Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth and Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake for espousing the view that the Sun rather than the Earth was the centre of the universe. More About: Living , Animal , Longest , Year , Clam
Juvenile ? yes but still funny
2007-10-17 19:32:00 This picture was taken by my colleague?s husband on a trip to Switzerland and it?s what the bus system is called. More About: Funny , Photo , Juvenile
A strange old week
2007-10-12 17:33:00 1) "You can?t say Argentina is not a democratic country,?even the dead get to vote."... reports La Nacion ..., "either the official electoral census is mistaken?or there are more than 7,000 Argentines who are ready to claim the Guinness Record for longevity." According to the official records, in 2001, there were only 374 centenarians in the entire country. Now, there are said to be 26,290 of them. At least, that is how many people more than 100 years old are cleared to vote?with 7,000 of them being more than 112 years old, the age of Tomoji Tanabe of Japan, the world?s oldest man." [ A calumny against a fine democracy, if you ask me]2) US man seeks change for $1million noteA man who handed over a counterfeit million-dollar bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket and asked for change has been arrested. Police told the BBC the man became abusive when a manager at the Giant Eagle store confiscated the fake note. [ Well, would'nt you?]3) Australian doctors have kept an Italian t... More About: Week , Strange , Tran
US man seeks change for $1m bill
2007-10-09 19:04:00 A man who handed over a counterfeit million-dollar bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket and asked for change has been arrested.Police told the BBC the man became abusive when a manager at the Giant Eagle store confiscated the fake note.He broke an electronic funds-transfer machine at the counter and reached for a scanner gun, said police.There is no real US bill worth $1m (£490,000). Since 1969, the $100 note has been the highest in circulation.The man walked into the store on the north side of Pittsburgh on Saturday evening.After refusing to give his name to police, the suspect, who was not carrying identification, was charged with forgery and criminal mischief.Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard told the BBC News website: "The John Doe [unidentified male] became irate when staff refused to change his $1m bill and damaged a piece of equipment. Officers arrested him."He was detained at Allegheny County Jail.Police are investigating whether the bogus note was among a... More About: Change , Bill , Chang , Chan
25 Year-Old Beauty Seeks Rich Banker - A Classic
More articles from this author:2007-10-05 14:06:00 The following exchange took place on Craigslist - the investment banker's response is a classic! Original Post'What am I doing wrong?Okay, I?m tired of beating around the bush. I?m a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I?m articulate and classy. I?m not from New York. I?m looking to get married to a guy who makes at least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but keep in mind that a million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don?t think I?m overreaching at all.Are there any guys who make 500K or more on this board ? Any wives ? Could you send me some tips ? I dated a business man who made an average of around 200 - 250K. But that?s where I seem to hit a roadblock. $250,000 won?t get me to Central Park West. I know a woman in my yoga class who was married to an investment banker, and lives in Tribeca. She?s not as pretty as I am, nor is she a great genius. So what is she doing right ? How do I get to her level ?Here are my questions specificall... More About: Beauty , Rich , Classic , Banker , Year 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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