Annoyed by telemarketers? Too polite to abuse them or just hang up? Can’t be bothered wasting their time in person? Then you need AstyCrapper. If you’re using the open-source Asterisk PBX, it will crap on for ages on your behalf. It works by detecting responses from the telemarketer and silence gaps and responding with [...]
 29 June 2010, 1:32 pm |  One comment | Tags: Fun, Linux, Open source, Telemarketing, Win | Category: Customer Service, Fun, Linux, Win Autodesk, in common with other multi-billion-dollar corporations, periodically spends large sums on redeveloping and then consistently presenting its corporate image. It then spends even larger sums making itself look silly in court by claiming exclusive rights to such things as empty orange rectangles. Strange, then, that Autodesk should slip up online when it comes [...] 15 April 2010, 2:43 pm |  7 comments | Tags: Autodesk, Corporate Image, Fun, Image manipulation, Logo | Category: Autodesk, Fail, Fun, Image manipulation, Other Autodesk Products, Thoughts, Web Stuff I was amused to see Shaan Hurley losing his locks at AU. Some of you may recall me suggesting this course of action a couple of years ago. How close do you think I got with my artist’s impression? Original images © 2008 and 2009 Shaan [...] 17 January 2010, 1:03 pm | One comment | Tags: Fun, Image manipulation, Pictures, Psychic Prediction, Shaan Hurley | Category: AU2009, Fun, Image manipulation, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Photography, Pictures This sign was visible for some months at my daughters’ old school:
It vanished rather quickly after I was spotted taking a photo of it. My daughters don’t go to that school any more. Instead, they go to the school where I took this photo this morning:
Again, [...] 22 May 2009, 11:01 am | 2 comments | Tags: Edyewkayshun, Fail, Fun, Pictures, Spelling | Category: Fail, Fun, Grammar, Pictures OK, so the last one was too easy. Is this one any harder? Who is this?
Bonus brownie points are available for identifying the time and place. The first person to identify the pixellated personage below will win a virtual doughnut. Bonus sprinkles will be provided if anyone can identify the other people, the event, the location and the year.
Picture courtesy of Donnia Tabor-Hanson (CADMama), from this thread in the AUGI Coffee Without CAD forum. I encourage [...] 19 May 2009, 2:07 pm | 15 comments | Tags: AU1998, AUGI, Fun, Pictures | Category: AUGI, Autodesk University, Fun, Pictures Time for my own bad Photoshop. Truly, truly awful work here. This is the tenth and last (so far) edition of Gaahl’s Tr00 Life Adventures. Click the thumbnail to see the full size image. This one contains a few in-jokes (e.g. “many Norwegian countries”) from the Mike Portnoy forum community that was the [...] 3 March 2009, 12:25 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: Fun, Gaahl, Image manipulation, Metal, Music, Peter Beste, Photography | Category: Fun, Image manipulation, Music, Photography, Pictures Come on Autodesk, why isn’t AutoCAD already running on this little beauty? Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard I’m not usually a huge fan of The Onion, but I certainly found this one LOLworthy. 6 January 2009, 9:53 pm | 3 comments | Tags: Apple, Fun, The Onion, Video | Category: Fun, Other Products, Other Sites, Video Pathetic perspective, courtesy of the work experience person doing Clark Rubber‘s brochure images: The same background is used for another table set. The perspective doesn’t match in that one either, but it’s not as bad as this. Maybe it’s just CAD geeks who notice this sort of thing? One more to come from [...] 30 December 2008, 9:14 pm | 3 comments | Tags: Advertising, Clark Rubber, Fun, Image manipulation, Pictures | Category: Advertising, Fun, Image manipulation More Fotoshop phun courtesy of Clark Rubber: We’ll allow the oversized box and balls as an artistic device. But the woman has been cut out (badly) and pasted in with little regard to scale; that water is about 30″ deep. She either has very stumpy legs compared with her skinny top half, or [...] 16 December 2008, 4:02 pm | One comment | Tags: Advertising, Clark Rubber, Fun, Image manipulation, Pictures | Category: Fun, Image manipulation, Pictures I’ve mentioned before that I love the Photoshop Disasters blog, and I’ve also mentioned that Clark Rubber has provided me with great service. Here’s the first of a few posts that combine the two. I recently received a Clark Rubber brochure, and from the look of it (and the web site), Clark Rubber is [...] 11 December 2008, 1:42 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: Advertising, Clark Rubber, Fun, Image manipulation, Other Blogs, Pictures | Category: Advertising, Customer Service, Fun, Image manipulation, Other Blogs, Pictures It seems that not only EULAs but also web sites must have onerous, unconscionable, ridiculously restrictive and utterly unenforceable sets of rules these days. I don’t want to miss out on the fun, so I have added mine to this site. There’s a link at the top of the page that points here: http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/terms-of-use/ [...] 26 November 2008, 8:57 pm | 4 comments | Tags: Fun, Legal, Other Blogs, Terms of Use | Category: Announcement, Fun, Legal, Other Blogs, Web Stuff I love this blog: http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/ OK, some of the “disasters” are a bit nitpicking, but there are some truly awful image manipulation efforts out there, some associated with very big companies. Look back over the archives, there are some real classics. Lesson to large companies: don’t penny-pinch, it’s not worth it. I can’t remember [...] 15 November 2008, 9:05 am | Leave a comment | Tags: Fun, Image manipulation, Other Blogs | Category: Advertising, Autodesk, Bentley, Fun, Image manipulation, Other Blogs, Pictures If you get this joke, you are officially a geek. Q: What’s the difference between Halloween and Christmas? A: Nothing, because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Shaan Hurley says he feels a “Lost in Translation” moment coming on. Perhaps this story will do? (Slightly geeky fun from Wales, safe for work). Reading Ralph’s post about going back to teaching reminded me of a time some years ago when I taught some AutoCAD evening classes at a technical college. As Ralph points out, students have a wide range of abilities. Although they were all supposed to have completed a prerequisite introductory Windows course, it became apparent [...] 23 October 2008, 9:57 am | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, Fun, Teaching, True story | Category: AutoCAD, Fun, Other Blogs Where to next on Gaahl’s ever-changing career path? The original Gaahl photograph is by Peter Beste. 18 September 2008, 8:56 pm | One comment | Tags: Fun, Gaahl, Image manipulation, Metal, Music | Category: Fun, Image manipulation, Music, Pictures I always find it amusing when extensively rehearsed and expensive presentations go wrong, except of course when they are my own. Anyway, presentations don’t get any more extensively rehearsed or expensive than the opening ceremony of the Olympics. So when a technical glitch occurs like Cathy Freeman having to stand around waiting for recalcitrant [...] Here’s another video I have done to the music of Swedish metal band Opeth (the first one is here). This band’s latest album, Watershed, does not come with conventional lyrics in the booklet, but rather a page full of rune-type characters. There are actually two different pages in different editions of the album, and [...] 11 July 2008, 8:44 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: Fun, Image manipulation, Music, Opeth, Pictures, Video | Category: Fun, Image manipulation, Music, Video This week, save the last dance for Gaahl. The original Gaahl photograph is by Peter Beste. 3 July 2008, 4:40 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: Fun, Gaahl, Image manipulation, Metal, Music | Category: Fun, Image manipulation, Music, Pictures |
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