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Friday January 25, 2008

Tip For The Day

Only this time the potato exploded.

I still ate what was left, but haven't been able to keep any food down since.

I'll be strongly advising piercing from now on.

Posted by Andrew @ 12:06am

Saturday January 19, 2008

Don't You Know Who I Am!

The segment - "Trading Nothing - I Got My Whistle!" - runs for a whopping 24 minutes!

Not an entirely straight forward visit, then.

Here's a few screen shots...

And here's a summary of how events unfold...

• time=0 mins An excited Jody enters the post office.
• time=2 mins Jody learns she has received a package by registered mail, and appears to be still relatively calm.
• time=4 mins Jody is told she needs to produce an ID. She leaves in a huff to get it from her car, throwing a tantrum on the way - "Don't you know who I am!" - as most authentic rock chicks would do, I guess.
• time=6 mins As Jody returns from her car, ID in hand, someone calls her, to talk about some mini crisis or other, so interrupting the proceedings that really matter - how inconsiderate!
• time=6 mins Some people, eh!!
• time=7 mins Ditto.
• time=8 mins Ditto.
• time=9 mins Ditto.
• time=10 mins Ditto.
• time=11 mins Ditto.
• time=12 mins Ditto.
• time=16 mins Jody finally gets hold of the package!
• time=18 mins Jody, wearing a surprise I threw in - only in Britain! - can't wait to get outside to try "the famous whistle that will give me extra special powers"...
• time=19 mins Jody wastes no time experimenting with the whistle's potential. "We sooooo have to use it in the train song!"
• time=22 mins Now in the car, more experimenting - Pheep-Honk-Pheep-Honk-Pheep-Honk-Pheep-Honk...

So she doesn't actually receive the package until 16 minutes in.

Personally, I think it's definitely worth the wait...

Posted by Andrew @ 6:06pm

Thursday January 17, 2008

Is It A Paperclip? Is It A House?!

No, it's a book!

I've just put my one red paperclip book up for a trade, as an adopted item (qualifies since I got it for nothing...).

It's the North American print edition, and is signed by the author - Kyle MacDonald.

And no fewer than three cool somethings of sorts are developing in the background, hopefully more on those soon...

Posted by Andrew @ 12:09am

Sunday January 13, 2008

Wanna drive a Bentley?

The message included an offer for me to test drive the latest Bentley GT.

In case that didn't register the first time...

The message included an offer for me to test drive the latest Bentley GT.

A car with a top speed of 195 mph, I believe.

Think Formula One.

195 mph!

I replied "No thanks!"

.............................................

Doh!

Posted by Andrew @ 11:22pm

Sunday January 13, 2008

Help! Suggest A Link From The tradingnothing.com Logo!

Probably easier for you to swing over to the Suggest A Link page rather than me try to explain here.

That said...

...if you want to put this banner in your blog/website, please feel free to go ahead (also tell me so I can link you a pixel and include you in the Table...)

This is the code you would need:

<img src=
"http://www.tradingnothing.com/images_pixels/logolinks_banner.gif"
width="468" height="60" border="0" usemap="#map_logolinks_banner"
alt="tradingnothing.com Logo Links banner">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.tradingnothing.com/js/
jscript_logolinks_banner.js"></script>

And that's it, the logo links will update automatically when I upload them...

Posted by Andrew @ 12:14am

Friday January 4, 2008

Drat And Double Drat

I hope not everyone has that problem, because that would make typing this a complete waste of time, much like this car, some might say...

Posted by Andrew @ 12:04am