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Web: The Funny and The Bizzare…

// June 6th, 2010 // No Comments » // Experiences

The following is for both the gainfully and ungainfully employed. Here’s a list of websites which are fun to visit and stay, the absolute best is at the last.

Caution: Before you start with this please have a good explanation ready for your boss!

  • Record Tripping: A fun site where you can solve puzzle the innovative way. Scratching the LP with your mouse’s scroll wheel.
  • Sound of Hamburg: Compose your own music. It is surprising sweet even though…
  • Echogenesis: Sit back and enjoy five different natural environments with sound effects.
  • Verbatim Championship: Create a monster using Verbatim recording  instruments and use it to fight other monsters.
  • De Montagetafel: Create your own documentary using your montage skills.
  • Optus Whale Song: Compose a song for a whale and make an orchestra perform it.
  • Flurrious: Create your own snowflake and watch it dance in an artistic snowfall.
  • Blues Maker: Like the name suggests, make your own Blues song…
  • Bubole: Make weird monsters and make it fight with other monsters created by other players.
  • Ball Pool: Click and shake your browser to create colorful balls and watch. Relaxing in middle of the day.
  • Bank of Imagination: Note down your “What if…” thoughts and save. You can also see what kind of flights of fancy the world around you has. You have to register before being a part.
  • Flame: Make some cool psychedelic drawings of your own.
  • Labuat: Interesting brush strokes in line with the music. Lyrics are good as well.
  • Why Late: An audio visual poetic experience. Must See!
  • Drum Machine: A mesmerizing combination of animation and sound.
  • Paul Neave: A fountain of  engaging Flash application and games
  • Forgotten Bookmarks: Very interesting!

The “Best” by my estimate and experience:

  • Incredibox: Conduct a capella or a beatbox band and the end result will surprise you. The only downside is that you cannot store it as an mp3 file.Musicmen
  • Beans: Crushing little screaming beans can be fun as well…
  • Salsa: A very cool video!

If you had any other one as your favorites comment!

If the frustration was too much today, here’s an option:

Either Smack the Penguin (beware of blood) or be the Brutal Bob. If you play either of them, be a sport and comment your score. My personal best are STP: 1,286 mts. and BB: 1358 mts. Beat Me!

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Never Alone…

// May 27th, 2010 // No Comments » // Stories

In the 15th century, in a village near Nuremberg, there lived a goldsmith named Albrecht Durer, who had eighteen children. In order to keep food on the table for them, he had to work long hours at his trade, and at any other paying chore he could find.

Despite their poverty, two of Albrecht Durer the Elder’s children had a dream. They both wanted to pursue their talent for art, but they knew that their father could never afford to send either of them to Nuremberg to study at the Academy. Their names were Albrecht and Albert.

Finally the two boys made a pact. They would toss a coin. The loser would go down into the nearby mines and, with his earnings, support his brother while he attended the academy. Then, when the brother who won the toss completed his studies, in four years, he would support the other brother at the academy, either with sales of his art work or, if necessary, by laboring in the mines.

They tossed a coin and Albrecht Durer won and went to Nuremberg. Albert went down into the dangerous mines and, for the next four years, financed his brother, whose work at the academy was an immediate sensation. Albrecht’s etchings, woodcuts, and oils were even finer than those of most of his professors, and by the time he graduated, he was earning considerable fees for his commissioned works.

When Albrecht returned to his village, the Durer family held a celebratory dinner to mark his homecoming. After dinner, Albrecht raised a toast to his brother for the years of sacrifice that had enabled him to fulfill his ambition. His closing words were, “And now, Albert, blessed brother of mine, now it is your turn. Now you go to Nuremberg to pursue your dream, and I will take care of you.”

All heads turned to where Albert sat. He shook his lowered head and, holding up his hands, said softly:

“No, brother, it is too late for me. Look what four years in the mines have done to my hands. The bones in every finger have been broken at least once, and I now suffer from arthritis so that I cannot even hold a glass to return your toast, much less wield a brush. No, brother, for me it is too late.”

Some years later, to pay homage to Albert for all that he had sacrificed, Albrecht Durer drew his brother’s abused hands with palms together and thin fingers stretched skyward.

He called his powerful drawing simply “Hands,” but the world opened its hearts to his great masterpiece and renamed it “The Praying Hands.”

More than 450 years have passed. Today, Albrecht Durer’s portraits, sketches, watercolors, charcoals, woodcuts, and engravings hang in every great museum in the world, but chances are that you, like most people, are familiar with one of them above all others: “Hands”.

Now that you have seen the great creation let it remind you that no one ever makes it alone.

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Why HR Policies go to Dogs…

// May 11th, 2010 // 4 Comments » // Contributed, Human Resources

Policy Initiation

Week 1 – Email No. 1
Effective this week, the company is adopting Fridays as Casual Day. Employees are free to dress in the casual attire of their choice.

Week 3 – Email No. 2

Spandex and leather micro-miniskirts are not appropriate attire for Casual Day. Neither are string ties, rodeo belt buckles or moccasins.

Week 6 – Email No. 3
Casual Day refers to dress only, not attitude. When planning Friday’s wardrobe, remember image is a key to our success.

Week 8 – Email No. 4
A seminar on how to dress for Casual Day will be held at 4 p.m. Friday in the cafeteria. A fashion show will follow. Attendance is mandatory.

Week 9 – Email No. 5
As an outgrowth of Friday’s seminar, a 14-member Casual Day Task Force has been appointed to prepare guidelines for proper casual-day dress.

Week 14 – Email No. 6
The Casual Day Task Force has now completed a 30-page manual entitled “Relaxing Dress Without Relaxing Company Standards.” A copy has been distributed to every employee. Please review the chapter “You Are What You Wear” and consult the “home casual” versus “business casual” checklist before leaving for work each Friday. If you have doubts about the appropriateness of an item of clothing, contact your CDTF representative before 7 a.m. on Friday.

Week 18 – Email No. 7
Our Employee Assistant Plan (EAP) has now been expanded to provide support for psychological counseling for employees who may be having difficulty adjusting to Casual Day.

Week 20 – Email No. 8
Due to budget cuts in the HR Department we are no longer able to effectively support or manage Casual Day. Casual Day will be discontinued, effective immediately.

Policy Termination

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