Working outdoors is not all its cracked up to be
Posted on November 19th, 2009 in other |
Trying to work in this weather..
Thanks to the Monkeys at Littlequiz.com, theres a free 2GB USB stick for the 5 best captions for this picture.
Update: I’ll close the competition this Friday the 27th and ask some friends and family to pick the best ones. Thanks for all the entries so far..!
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Again you show dedication, above and beyond what is normally expected.
(NB. Beware of wet rot and I don’t mean in the table & chair)
Seems Murrion is flooded with work.
@Fran Thanks Fran, I’ll have to make sure I don’t work late!
@Aidan Tis true
I would say that you were outstanding in your field, but then I would be wrong
@Gerry Lol, Brilliant!
Great pic Gordon!!
@Joe Ta, took ages to fill the yard with water with a little bucket
Gordon working on his farmer’s tan…
As Gordon read through his email, he began to get a strange, sinking feeling….
So you got an invite for Google Wave, then
In an alternate reality, Ireland didn’t undergo a property boom and there were no empty offices left for thousands of workers who were left to fend for themselves in undeveloped fields.
Google may have massages in the office, but Murrion Software has great foot spas.
When he had stopped crying after the defeat in Paris, Gordon got back to work.
“Some may call it overkill, but the best 3G signal is vital, no matter what environment”
Class! Nice one Gordon!
Oh… a caption competition… hang on…:
Incensed by his doctor’s verdict that he was incompetent, Gordon sat down to write a vitriolic blog post about the medical profession. It wasn’t until he felt the steady trickle running down his leg that he realised his physician had actually diagnosed him “incontinent”!
The Farmer’s Journal is not the best employer in the world.
The things we do for wireless!
Maybe I am still obscessed with the banking crisis, but I think that the real question here is whether we are looking at a liquidity issue or a solvency one.
Gordon looked despondent as he realized Typos don’t come much worse than this. “Why did they have to put the f**king ‘G’ right below the ‘T’. Never again would he make the mistake of downloading BigTorrent.
File under water.
Murrion Software prepares for liquidation.
Gordon types so fast he has to be liquid cooled!!
Gordon updates his blog from the deck of the Titanic.
AIB repossessions get serious…
A wet site designer
…’dear diary, when i asked for an office with a ‘light airy feel’ i think they took me too literally…..’
With the flood waters rising Noah masters Twitter to call his flock!
Damn HSE cutbacks….
Murrion software, we can select from a pool of talent in every software field.
Tom was outsitting in his field.
and the emails keep flooding in!!!!
Caption competition:
Disaster author unveils his new “method writing” technique.
Why you should never complain about being stuck in an office
i forgot to go to the toilet
murrion software you maybe flooded with work but at least you get some fresh air
Al Fresco dining in the Cumbria Cafe, now with free Wi-Fi.
Al Fresco dining in the Cumbria Cafe, now with free Wi-Fi!
Evacuate the village because of 20 feet of floodwater coming right for me? No! I can’t go! Something is wrong on the internet!
Oh, I see: you had *intended* to call the business “Marine Software”
Gordon likes to get in the mood before revisiting his “Wet Wet Wet” CD collection
This year , I will be mostly programming in a pond!
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside
As Leonard Cohen meant to sing:
First we flood Carrigadrohid, then we flood all Cork
This dam software ! How was I supposed to guess “Fill” would do that ? Mmmm. I wonder what “Flood” does ?
“Well, it’s wet enough here in Carrigadrohid now. I think I’ll open the dam gates a little bit …”
Maybe we’ll holiday in Venice this year.
Gordon Lost it all in Tiffany’s that day……….
‘when i said i was gonna surf the net,this isn’t exactly wot i had in mind!’
You can be a small fish in a big sea… or a big man in a small pond
“Todays Sheep Farmer”
This online f(psh)ishing is not all its cracked up to be
Farming 2.0
When they said a DOS attack could flood the server.. they really meant it.
‘this is what God does when you wear wellington boots and tracksuit bottoms….’
Only losers leave their work station to use the bathroom!
“Comments are flooding in”
“Bogged down in work!”
“The new working farmer”
“(USB) Stick in the mud”
‘Gordon goes turlough surfing!’
Or ‘The Bog of Murrion Software’
OK Tech support, I’ve flushed the memory, now what?
He knew that charging his battery had been a good idea but the tide was turning
“Today I will be mostly tweeting…”
Gordon couldn’t understand what all the fuss about water cooled computing was.
@James GallagherOne more .. ‘Dear Minister Ryan, I wish to highlight a problem with the designated coverage are for the the NBS …’
Gordon was lake for work again.
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