Huge Japanese Roof Picture

July 30th, 2008
Roof Artwork

Roof Artwork

In preparation for a trip to Japan with K later this year, I was plotting a train journey on Google Maps when I spotted something interesting on the roof of a warehouse near our hotel. I zoomed in a bit and… well see the image to the right.

It appears to be a globe wearing a metal hat, possibly an alloy wheel. I have absolutely no idea what it represents, so if anyone in Japan knows what this is all about, please let me know using the comments box.

The image is absolutely massive. You can quite easily fit four cars (see inset) in each of the thing’s eyes, and I calculate it to be about 70m high.

To see it on Google Maps, click here.

Update:

Surely someone must know what this is?

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Personal Injury Lawyers

July 23rd, 2008

So I was chatting with K on our bi-daily car share, and we somehow jokingly got onto the subject of Personal Injury Lawyers and all the daft names they’re coming up with – ‘lawyers4u’, ‘claims4u’ and wotnot – and I jokingly came up with ‘personalinjurylawyers2go2court4u’.

Then it transpired that 123-Reg were selling .info domains for a pound each for one year, so I registered it, and bob’s your aunty’s live-in lover: A new (spoof) Personal Injury Lawyer website.

The Google Ads I put on there are (obviously) for real companies, but interestingly there’s a large number of them that follow the ‘blahblah4u’ format. It’s funny because it’s true.

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Double Dipper Cuppa

July 19th, 2008

With the global economy in the toilet and the local economy deader than a dead thing down a well, M and I turned our thoughts to the various ways we could save cash. The obvious ones – careful driving, big excess on the car insurance, changing suppliers and turning stuff off – were pretty much all taken care of, so I had a think about food and stuff.

I’ve already switched my cereals from branded stuff to Asda’s own, but I saw something on B3ta the other day about using a teabag twice. Oddly enough we’re currently drinking our way through a box of PG Tips Pyramid bags (which I bought for the free Monkey, heehee) and I’d noticed how much tea juice we were actually getting out of them.

Please leave your teabagging jokes at the door, thanks.

Anyway, I was going to leave the once-used teabag on the spoon somewhere but, M being M, I found a handy saucer strategically placed next to the kettle. Sure enough, it contained the slightly soggy teabag that was used to make an earlier cuppa.

Obviously, the process is the same, but does require a little more squeezing than the first-use scenario. It did cross my mind to leave it on the saucer again and go for a third cup but by that time I’d already binned the bag, and even I’m not that much of a Clampett.

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Weezer ‘Troublemaker’ Lyrics

July 16th, 2008

This is the first track on Weezer’s new ‘Red Album’ and it’s a corker.

Put me in a special school, ‘cos I am such a fool,
And I don’t need a single book to teach me how to read.Who needs stupid books? They are for petty crooks,
And I will learn by studying the lessons in my dreams.

Turn off the TV, ‘cos that’s what others see,
And movies are as bad as eating chocolate ice cream.

They only sicken me. Don’t let me play football,
I’ll sack the quarterback and jack the brother of the ball.

I’m a troublemaker, never been a faker,
Doing things my own way and never giving up.
I’m a troublemaker, not a double taker,
I don’t have the patience to keep it on the up.

I picked up a guitar, what does this signify?
I’m gonna play some heavy metal riffs and you will die.

You wanted Arts and Crafts, how’s this for Arts and Crafts?
Wananananananananaanananananananana- That’s right.

I’m growing out my hair, I’m movin’ out to Cherokee,
I’m gonna be rock star and you will go to bed with me,

‘Cos I can’t work a job like any other slob,
Punch it in and punch it out and suckin’ up to Bob.

Marrying a bitch, having 7 kids,
Giving up and growing old and hoping there’s a God.

I’m a troublemaker, never been a faker,
Doing things my own way and never giving up.
I’m a troublemaker not a double taker,
I don’t have the patience to keep it on the up.

I’m gonna be a star, and people will crane necks,
To get a glimpse of me and see if I am having a sex.

In studying my moves, they try to understand,
Why I am so unlike the singers in the other bands.

I’m such a mystery as anyone can see,
There isn’t anybody else exactly quite like me.

And when it’s party time like 1999,
I party by myself because I’m such a special guy.

I’m a troublemaker, never been a faker,
Doing things my own way and never giving up.
I’m a troublemaker not a double taker,
I don’t have the patience to keep it on the up.

(Keep it on the up) I’m a troublemaker
(Keep it on the up) I’m a troublemaker
(Keep it on the up) I’m a troublemaker
(Keep it on the up) I’m a troublemaker
Never giving up


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