Posts filed under “Funny”
Valentine’s Day Geek humor
In honor of Valentine’s Day, from one of the CUER mailing lists… How do I love you? Let me count the ways: If you were an A.C. voltage I’d keep you in phase If you could transmit a moment I would want to twist you If you were a current through me I could not [...]
Wherein the Grey Lady removes her trousers in public
I’ve read the New York Times since I got a great deal as a freshman at the University of Michigan for daily delivery to my dorm room. It’s a great newspaper in my view, with some really solid reporting both in the US and internationally. But today I read an article that made me think [...]
Barack Obama as a Rorschach test
President Barack Obama’s multi-ethnic background and refusal to get tied down to stereotypes has made him a cultural Rorschach test. The definitive proof? This song: There’s no one as Irish as Barack O’Bama (Lyrics here) And a better video can be seen if you click on this link. The band disabled embedding videos…
Best beer ad ever??
My first two exams of the MBA were yesterday (Finance and Accounting), and my last two exams for this term are tomorrow (Marketing and Organisational Behaviour). I’m a bit fried from yesterday, and still have to study for exams tomorrow morning. In honour of this, a bit of an amusing video…
Your Monday morning Sesame Street Gangsta-rap video
Via Unstoppablerobotninja:
An MBA Rugby Blue, the last sprint and a magnificent cover letter
I want to say a public congratulations to Doug Rowe, a fellow Cambridge MBA student. Just yesterday he was named as the scrum-half for the Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club 1st XV in their Varsity Match against Oxford at Twickenham Stadium next Thursday (the 11th). He will be a bit of a rare commodity; [...]
Getting ready for the Singapore F1 Grand Prix
I promise that I’ll post more on my first few days at Cambridge shortly. Suffice it to say that it’s been busy, fascinating, invigorating, but with hints of a typical English paperwork hell. I just saw this video via the Times Online (the F1 blog) and had to share it. It’s a hilarious parody advert [...]
“Lucky” – a very lucky koala bear
So I was checking e-mail and saw a link to a Reuters Oddly Enough article that mentioned something about a koala. Curious, I clicked through to read it. The article was about a koala bear that was hit by a car and was stuck in the grill of the car for over 7 miles before [...]