2007 July archive at Mr. & Mrs. Tigerlili Cavill

Archive for July, 2007

Hello I am USA! I Hate You Bicycle Man!

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Bike, School Bus, Hummer by Adam Cavill

What is wrong with the people here that seem to actively hate bicycles and cyclists? Did they never learn how to ride? Did a cyclist cut them off in their SUV when they were going to Linen’N'Things? Do they think bicycles are anti-American? Seriously, I seem to get some kind of shit every other day from somebody because of my bike.

Well in terms of motorized vehicle vs bike I’m going to lose every time. They are faster, bigger and more dangerous than I will ever be. The thing is though, I’m not destroying the environment or killing people in accidents.

Shouldn’t people LIKE cyclists? Shouldn’t I get a badge or something instead of a shitty attitude and a dirty look?

EDIT: Further insight into the sad state of transportation here in the Greater NYC area. The Mayor is seen to be pro public transport. Seen to be

The Zombies

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Time of the Season.

Los Bravos

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Black is Black. It’s the looks on their faces that keep me laughing.

Overheard on the Train

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NJ Transit Rail Ticket by Adam Cavill

Two strangers, a man and woman both in their 50’s almost bumped heads on the train this morning. The woman chuckled, ” I thought you were going to kiss me or something.”

A good natured question back, “Is that an option?”

“Always” was the reply in a slightly darker tone, “Life is too short.”

As they exited the train the man said, “That would have been a great way to start the day.”

And it was, even without a kiss.

Post Harry Potter Depression Syndrome Symptom Checklist

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Give now, save a life

If you check more than one of these symptoms, you have PHPDS. You need specific help*

Wearing HP T-Shirt / Hogwarts School Uniform / Mad-Eye Moody’s fake eye since Friday, even though by now it smells very, very bad.

Conducting Funerals for the characters that have died.

Uncontrollable crying moments.

Hugging the book in bed at night.

Tummy ache.

Toothache.

Measles.

Mumps.

Throwing up slugs.

Feeling empty, standing, desolate in corners of the room, letting out big sighs.

Flaming people from Scotland on Sunday for giving the book a bad review.

Carving a wand out of ‘found’ wood. Developing large red callous on thumb after carving sessions, carrying on regardless, whilst trying to summon up a Patronus through the tears of pain.

Going to the “Mythology of Harry Potter” talk.

Giving the “Mythology of Harry Potter” talk.

Wishing JK Rowling a restful nights sleep after finishing reading the last page. The last ever page, ever ever. I’m so glad I was alive to read this.

Wishing JK Rowling was your mother.

*C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, Beatrix Potter, Enid Blyton, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.M. Barrie, Lemony Snicket, Philip Pullman, Dianna Wynne-Jones, Ursula K. LeGuin, A.A. Milne et al.

Turkish “Star Wars”

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Türkçe “Star Wars” by Adam Cavill

They took the space scenes film and made Turkish with it…

Write good script not confusing at all!

Let’s do whatever you want!

Fight against injustice!

Sifr won’t let me use special chars: Türkçe “Star Wars” more correctly. Or even more correctly Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam , The Man Who Saved the World. Also if you have 1.5 hours you will be rewarded with some of the funniest subtitles you will ever see. Read about this film on Wikipedia

Wait! NO WAIT! A Sequel?

Offices. 8 hours a day.

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I have a pretty nice office. I don’t have to share with anyone. Its a bit weird after working with design teams in big open studios. But there ya go, I ‘m a one man band at the moment.

I found this site, Officesnapshots, and thought it had a good premise. Most of us work in offices after all. I found the frisson between the WWW sterlity of the facebook interface and the real world premises interesting. There are a few other examples, Twitter, Craigslist.

4.5 hours to go….

12 Kinds of Ads

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Do you work in advertising? Do you know how simple the work you do actually is? Is it possible you pretend that it’s something more complicated? Well anyhoo.

In case you have ever worked with me and have doubted me when I say:

It’s very straightforward, this marketing communications malarkey.

Here is some proof:

ONLY 12 KINDS OF ADS

via digg, via slate

12 kinds of ads

Missing Girl

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Please take a quick look at the picture of this little girl, Madeleine McCann, who went missing in Portugal in May.

She has an unusual eye. It is suspected that she has been abducted. The police are looking for people who have been on holiday in Portugal between in the two weeks leading up to her disappearance on Thursday 3 May to upload their photographs of crowd scenes so that they can try to piece together her abduction. Tell anyone you know who may have been to Portugal during that time.

More information about her here and here

Dear Unknown Spammer,

To my great disappointment we are now getting blog SPAM for highly inappropriate Portugese content, especially considering the nature of this post. I’d like to thank you for lessening my faith in the human race, by thank I mean the opposite BTW. If there is a hell, don’t you think you are in danger of going there?

Worst Regards,

Adam Cavill

HP midnight…

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1.00 AM Page 20

The person next to me on the train was on page 34.

It’s now 1am and we just got back from the midnight Harry Potter event. I have a cup of tea and we are listening to Classic FM which was just playing Buckbeak’s Journey by John Williams.

4.00 AM Page 250

Uk has massive flooding. It’s a little early to ring people to see if they are ok.
In the Wizarding world, things are definitely not ok.

3.00 PM Sunday

It’s all over. (sniff) Over. All over.

Does anyone else out there have any experience dealing with PHPDS? It’s a serious illness that will strike many people this week. Some may think it trivial, made-up, even a non-valid excuse for missing work. But Post Harry Potter Depression Syndrome may be the mental health disaster of the early 21st century. Any insight or advice please contact Eminent Literary Psychologist Adam Cavill

Post Harry Potter Depression Syndrome