Archive for June, 2009
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Mixd summer adventure day
Monday, June 29th, 2009
Following on from last year the Mixd team will be venturing out into the great outdoors once again this summer to tackle a new Via Ferrata (Italian for “iron road”) adventure course at Howstean Gorge in Nidderdale. Without wanting to scare all those taking part a Via Ferrata is a “mountain route” which is equipped with fixed cables, stemples, ladders, and bridges! Ooooh… the excitement builds!
Not worth a nickel
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
New plans to brighten up Mixd HQ with the introduction of a ‘work wall’ that would allow the design team to display creative concepts was scuppered this afternoon.
The plan was simple: “Let’s get a sheet of stainless steel and use magnets to hold the work up”. One quick call to a local steel fabricator and within a couple of days our sheet of shiny metal arrived. It’s lovely, although the magnets don’t stick to it.
Now… having been taught at school that things are either magnetic or they’re not, we were pretty comfortable that stainless steel was. Oh no, how silly.
A quick bit of research on Google has informed us that stainless steel is a ‘ferritic’ structure and therefore magnetic, unless it has a large proportion of nickel (there must be loads in our sheet) making it ‘austenitic’… of course. If only Mr Rees had taught us that.
Right… anyone want a massive sheet of non-magnetic stainless steel?
Or have any suggestions of what we can do with it? Clean answers only please.
Is this Susan Boyle fresh out of rehab at the Priory?
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
The above picture has found its way into our hands. It arrived under plain cover after we paid a small fortune to an anonymous contact… in a mask, out the back, after dark. Although this looks suspiciously like our very own Producer, Bob, dressed as a lady and mingling with Jim Bowen and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (I believe Raphael wore the red mask), the burning question remains:
Is this the first sighting of Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle following her stint of rehab (allegedly) in the Priory?
And if not, why is Bob dressed as one of the ladies from the Bounty kitchen roll advert?