All entries for Wednesday 13 January 2010

The year we make contact?

Writing about web page http://2010book.tumblr.com/post/310745454/cover

Some guy has dug out an old book written in 1972 that posits what life will be like in the year 2010 and posted the contents online.

It reminds me of the books in the library at school about what life might be like in 'the future'. Full of colourful illustrations of futuristic houses with robots delivering parcels and filling up the freezer with the food it had automatically ordered for you via an outside hatch.

A woefully inaccurate prediction stuck in my mind is that by the year 2000 people will be living on the moon and speaking latin. It's possible it's only stuck in there because I made it up though.

I'm slowly coming to accept that we won't have flying cars by 2015 as depicted in Back to The Future II.

Mike Willis : 13 Jan 2010 19:34 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Then the giraffe says, but I don't play the piano!

Writing about web page /jchronicle/entry/boring/

Writing about an entry you don't have permission to view

Julian has a point. So in half hearted attempt to address this, post in the comments the answer to the question "What sort of animal would you like to be and why?" Humorous (clean) answers only. Terrible puns are allowed.

My housemate is preparing for a job interview and mentioned that the above question is a favourite of HR managers. Apparently it's a trick of sorts. If your answer contains reference to characteristics of that animal then it means you aspire to posses those characteristics which in turn means you don't currently posses them. So if your answer is say, a Lion and you make reference to qualities such as strength and leadership it means you currently lack strength and leadership type qualities. Or something like that. Maybe.

Mike Willis : 13 Jan 2010 12:48 |  Tags: Blogs |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem