Geek of the Month!
 

Just thought I'd share some info with you...

I've just won "Geek of the Month" at work! I get a disgustingly horrible "art deco" trophy and ?500 into my bank account.

And it was the first time the trophy was ever awarded.


Probably something I shouldn't be shouting about, but hey who cares!

They took a photo of me to put in our internal Friday news letter, get-in!

Im a Nerd and proud of it!

:)

Nerds unite!

wtg drammy, u uber nerd, u :mrgreen:

Nice! I wouldn't mind being called a geek for ?500. Can we see the trophy mate?

Err.. I think I'll skip the "Showing his trophy"-part.

Anyways, congrats mate!

Haha! Woops! Never thought of that! :lol: :oops:
Alright Sebastian?

Thanks guys,

Here I am with my trophy out in the middle of the office! fnar fnar...

Nice one Drammy!

Nothing wrong with being a geek, but being classed as top geek could leave a few mental scars.

Something you'll treasure for ever that mate. The David Brent of W. Yorks!
:wink:

lol
where do you work drammy?

Geek I don't mind - but the David Brent of W Yorkshire - now thats personal! :lol: :wink:

I'm an IT consultant for a Software House in Headingley, Leeds.

Your colleagues all look suitably unimpressed there mate. :lol:

Hey Drammy, when you say software house, do you mean that they are a group of developers?

Mm, that's one trophy alright Drammy.

Matsa: Arsch, just admit it. You really wanted to see his trophy but I do agree with you, I wouldn't mind the extra ?500.

They're all jealous! The guy next to me was quite pissed off - "I thought I should have won" he said. Oh well at least he's honest!

Notice the iPod the guy who sits behind me has - the company bought us all one - thing is now everyone just sits in silence listening to their iPods...

What I mean by software house is that we develop software, so yes there is a large team of about 25-30 developers but also the other staff required to run such a business - support staff, marketing, finance, sales and my department (professional services) who are the guys that actually meet the clients, install the software, tailor it to their needs and manage the projects.

We also have offices in Sydney, Scotland and Southampton. So me and the missus are going to look into moving to the other side of the world, to live in Sydney. We just need to wait for her to finish her tteacher training (gets us more points for the working visa)


ps. I reckon the trophy has some dead person's ashes in it - it looks more like an urn! The missus just got back to find it on our mantle piece and said - "What the hell is THAT? Get it out of here!"

I was thinking urn too. It looks more neo-classical than art deco, no?

Nice! We'll have to get together and make sweet music...

Too right Jase - you can show me around them swanky studios you work in as well!

Haha...they're not that swanky really. We have 3 tracklay suites which are just geared up for editing and voice over work, so no fancy outboard or anything, but they do have PT HD2 systems...

Then we have one mix suite, which has a nice Sony DMX console, but yet again, no fancy outboard...most of it is done ITB.

You'll love Sydney mate!

Crikey! There's probably a whole family of deadly funnel web spiders in there!

Aye! That's one of the reason I would be scared as hell going to Australia. I mean those animals (yes, animals..) are insane. I bloody hate spiders and the biggest spider I've found in my apartment is probably a joke compared to whatever other type of spider there is in Australia!

Although, I wouldn't mind some warm weather.. The winter is coming.. Hmm, But I do look forward to XMAS. I will spoil Nova with gifts and I get to play Santa! YAY!

Nice to see ya Drammy!

Bah! I hardly see any spiders...

I do see alot of pidgeons though. Today I was driving, and there were some pidgeons on the road, and one of them didnt make it out of the way in time. When I looked in the rear view mirror, all I could see was a big puff of feathers

:lol:

Of course you wouldnt unless you actually spent some time outside Jase ;)

Some friends and I used to rent two mud brick houses on 10 acres, situated about 30km directly south of Mount Warning on the North coast of NSW....

- The very first night I stayed there I awoke to a 2.5 diamond python (non-poisonous) entering through a broken window pane near my feet. I was practically coccooned in my sleeping bag and had to roll off the other side of the bench I was sleeping on...

- We caught around 25 northern funnel webs while living there for 18 months. When we moved out, a friend was helping me to shift the double bed from the main house - we realised that the funnel webs had burrowed about 15 nests into the mud brick wall behind the bed.... :shock:

- One morning a small brown snake (close to the most venomous snake in the world) dropped from the thatched bamboo insulation and onto my friends while they were sleeping - I heard the screams from about 75m away at the other house, and arrived to find my mate butt-naked fending off the snake like a matador with his doona!

- While weeding in one of our garden beds, I accidentally picked up a scorpion hidden amongst the weeds - needless to say my hand was quite sore for a couple of days.

- Word of advice - before tilling soil check for nests of all kinds. Especially ants. I managed to send a pitch fork into the side of a bullants nest and was subsequently covered by a few hundred bull ants. The bull ant dance beats anything ever screened by the office ;)

- The coolest thing I saw out there was a trapdoor spider hole - which I have never seen anywhere else. The diameter of the door was about 7-8cm - so I didnt hang round long enough to see just how big the spider was. It was the perfect construction of the hole that impressed me... I wish i took a pic of it because I have searched the web thoroughly since looking for a similar burrow and cant find one that looks remotely like it.

Sorry to get OT in the OT section ;)

Just makes me laugh when I hear people who have lived in the city all their life say "theres not that many spiders and snakes around". Especially sydney siders - go have a look around your house - esp around rock walls, darker garden areas, old sheds etc. I have lived in three seperate locations in Sydney, and I have found funnel webs at every location. Years ago when living in Terry Hills, my sisters through me in the pool and 3 small brown snakes appeared from the filter...

To top it all off, redback spiders are now breeding with whitetail spiders - creating a more mobile, aggressive, poisonous family of spiders. Only in Sydney, Jase ;)

cheers

Blay

:shock: Blay, that is awesome mate. Brilliant post!

blay: Oh, for fuck sake mate. That wasn't a very nice post now, was it?

Nice one Blay!

Chuff me - having second thoughts now! Definately won't be telling the missus about all that - she goes ape if she spots a 5mm British garden spider in the house! And they're pathetic little things in comparison!

Cheers Timo, I don't think I've posted a picture of myself before...

Jase, will deffo have to hook up, but its going to be a couple of years probably before we'll be moving... Dunno what to do with all my equipment though

Damn, I'm never going to Australia now, ever. Fukin hate snakes n shit.

Trod on an adder before. Was running though a cool sandy forest in France catching up my parents after I'd just been for a piss off the track after a visit to the beach, when my foot stood and slipped on something soft half embedded in the sand as i was running, thought to myself "wtf, that wasn't a stick!" and turned while continuing running backwards and this mega irritated mother fukin angry viper with proper zig zags down its back was writhing about n shit. Was outta there like a bullet from a gun. :lol: Lucky I was running when i stood on the bastard. :shock:

Snakes, cunts. The lot of them. That goes for spiders too, although I don't mind picking up UK spiders.

Hmmm...... I'll stick with my earlier comment. Bah!

:)