06.29.06
Nerd Test
Well I did my nerd test and here is my results:
It would seem I’m a bit of a nerd, funny that.
Archive for June, 2006
06.19.06
It’s (almost) whale hunting season.
A vast yea landlubber. Ahoy mateys.
No it’s not International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19), it’s whale hunting season (almost).
In fact a slim majority of 33 to 32 votes for bringing back whale hunting almost passed. It needed a 75% majority. The majority seem to want whale hunting back.
Call me Ahab, as I’m off to find me my white whale.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t condone extinction of a species, but any animal or plant is fair game in my book as long as they are a renewable resource that is renewed (like planting trees).
I offer a solution to the problem of whale hunting, whale farming. I reckon if you want to hunt whales, grow them yourselves. Just like any other animal or plant. Countries could grow whales, insert tracking devices (kind of like branding) into the whales when born, and only hunt farmed whales. You could pen the whales up, but letting them roam free would be more fun.
You could then capitalise on it even more by offering whale hunts. People could pay to go hunt whales. Follow them around with their tracking devices, and then mount the head in their den. Kidding on that last bit, you’d need a big den.
I wonder what whale meat tastes like? I reckon you could make a big steak out of them. Mmmm delicious.
In fact, according to the wikipedia articles on whales we could be doing them an advantage in speeding up their natural selection to make them smarter.
By contrast, the whale has faced no such environmental stimuli to brain evolution. Whales live in an unchanging and benign environment with few natural predators.
I for one reckon we should bring back whale hunting, and it seems the majority agree. Now we just have to change the minds of the holdouts
06.09.06
World Cup Begins
The world cup has began, first match of Germany vs Costa Rica a resounding 4-2.
Now is a good as time as any to plug my free bets site. Free football bets here. General free sports bet here.
Good Luck!
06.05.06
Free Mobile with Free Calls!
For the last 6 months I’ve been getting all my phone calls subsidised for free and a free phone to boot!
I know it all sounds amazing and that there must be sort of scam but I can assure it isn’t. The deal is you sign up to a normal 12 month plan for a set amount per month. They give you a free phone, and you pay your monthly bill as normal. Then every couple of months you fill in a simple form (3 entry fields), mail it back with a photocopy of your bill and they refund your charges with cheque.
Witness my latest cheque for 72 quid:
For the step by step instructions:
- Go to Cool New Mobile and check out the phones and plans. Note that some plans will give you cashback thats equal to the total 12 months outlay while other plans don’t cover the full cost of your mobile plan, but probably give you a better phone. It’s a tradeoff you will have to make. Since I’m a cheapskate, I went with a 30 quid a month on a 12 month plan with 360 quid cashback which ends up paying for all of it. The phone I got was a Sony K300i which I gave to the missus to use as it was better then her current phone. Alternatively you can keep your current phone and find one that goes for the most on ebay and sell it.
- Once you got your plan and phone chosen, sign up as normal. You will then be sent a phone and be on a monthly plan, just like a normal contract phone deal.
- The last bit of the plan, is every couple of months (they give you a schedule, mark it in your diary), you fill out a simple form which includes your customer number, your name and the amount of the cashback. Mail this in with a photo copy of the bill for the month, and hey presto you get sent a cheque. For me, my schedule was month 4,6,8, 10 and 12. Five installments of 72 quid each time which equals 360 quid.
Now you may be wondering, how do they possible make any money at all if they pay for everything. Well they rely on your apathy and laziness. They hope you either forgot, or are to lazy to bother mailing in the form, and once you miss one, the rest are void.
The way I see it, I’m getting paid 360 quid to fill in 5 forms every 2 months. So for 5 mins of work each form, 25 mins in total, thats more then 700 quid an hour! Quite worth your time and effort.
Another neat trick is if you want more minutes then what you get on your plan, for me I get 200 minutes and 200 texts (quite enough), then you can sign up for multiple phones and plans. You can then hock the extra phones on ebay as brand new phones. Then when you run out of your normal minutes on your plan, instead of being a chump and paying for the extra minutes, just swap your sim with your extra sims, make your calls for free, then swap back to your main sim to receive calls to your normal number. Ingenious!
06.04.06
New multitasking phone
I found the next phone I want. A phone that can make toasties amongst other things.