Nu er een kredietcrisis is…

Onderstaand verhaaltje kreeg ik via de mail.
Een leuke verzameling toepasselijke uitdrukkingen. 🙂

De bananenhandelaar is de pisang en
de tabakshandelaar is de sigaar.
De bakker verdient geen droog brood meer en
de herenmode is de das omgedaan.
De lampenwinkeliers zien de toekomst duister in
en de scheepvaart is de wind uit de zeilen genomen.

Menig timmerman heeft er het bijltje bij neergelegd
terwijl de kousenfabrieken er geen gat meer in zien.
De horlogemakers zouden de tijd willen terugzetten en
de confectie-industrie moet er een mouw aan passen.
De tuinders heeft men knollen voor citroenen verkocht
en de binnenschippers zijn aan lager wal geraakt.

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Say what?!

The title of this post is the name of an iOS music app. It’s innovative, crazy, mind-blowing and utterly funny.

What the app does? Hard to explain. Just watch the video and see for yourself.

Amplify’d from www.wiretotheear.com

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz is another must have iOS music app. It’s universal and is currently priced at $1.99. It was created by Jörg Piringer and it’s hard to describe what it does. In fact in this case I’m not going to attempt a description. Just watch the video above. Awesome.

Read more at www.wiretotheear.com

Getting Rickrolled on Last.fm

In an earlier post I mentioned a blog post I found with tips on getting more productive and to focus better on the task you want (or have) to do. One of the tips in the article is to listen to lyric-free music so the lyrics won’t distract you. I figured that listening to some death metal qualifies as well since I don’t understand any of the lyrics these guys are singing, grunting or shouting.

So I fired up my Last.fm player and selected the genre “Brutal Death Metal” to have some background noise while banging away on the keyboard to get some work done. You can imagine my surprise when after about 30 minutes I suddenly heard the intro of “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley. What. The. F*?|<!

See the screenshot below and notice the station.

Nice one, guys! 🙂

Best Order Confirmation Message Ever

Yesterday I ordered the CD “Round Midnight” from an Italian band called Moongarden. I can recommend this band to anyone who likes progressive rock in the style of bands like Marilion and Carptree.

I started looking for the album at the web stores I usually visit when I order albums on the Internet, but I had a hard time finding it. In the end I had to use Google to find a site that had the album in stock. The search led me to a site called CD Baby where I could finally place my order.

Today I received an e-mail from CD Baby to confirm that my order has been dispatched. While reading the message I almost fell from my chair with laughter! This is by far the most amusing order confirmation I have ever received in my life!

For your reading pleasure I have included the mail in this journal entry.

Enjoy!

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Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.

A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure it was in the best possible condition before mailing.

Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved “Bon Voyage!” to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Saturday, July 28th.

I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as “Customer of the Year.”  We’re all exhausted but can’t wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Sigh…


Derek Sivers, president, CD Baby
the little store with the best new independent music

(Originally posted on my Last.fm journal)