The supplier of these ones also has refills too, which is nice. I've half a mind to order some so at least the barrel can be reused when the original ink runs out.

This feels like Spaceballs even though I know it's categorically not.

It's some kind of material mix that adds a touch more weight and uses less plastic. Helps my sustainability goals: less plastic and a more premium finish so people are less likely to immediately throw them away.

A pen shown from the top, bottom, and side perspectives. It has a white barrel and button and a metallic blue clip.

I ordered a bunch of Prodir promo pens for work and I'm unreasonably excited to have them arrive.

The stone finish feels super nice and the clicker is lovely and responsive.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but *squee*

#Marketing #Merch

Wait really? I'd assumed it was "kiss your carving knife".

Also, wasn't Perplexity throwing their hat in the ring for a "merger" a minute ago? What even happened with that?

It's like watching vultures circling a perfectly healthy animal.

"As welcome as a turd in a hot tub" has entered my daily lexicon thanks to him.

I have a soft spot for Scrubs, primarily because it was so dedicated to not being hyperbolic about the medical procedures it depicted. But it get a black mark because the whole will-they-won't-they thing with JD and Elliott got super exhausting.

Slow Horses is a rock solid spy thriller made even better because Gary Oldman plays a delightfully jaded, snarky bitch.

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Casino operator Star 'on its knees' as analyst predicts collapse At casinos, the odds are never in a punter's favour. Now the chances of losing it all have been turned back onto one of Australia's biggest casino operators. How did the company get to this point?

Source:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Extract from an ABC News article on Star Casino's financial troubles. Relevant text is highlighted. "...top analyst predicting Star Entertainment Group has a 50 per cent chance of going into administration. That is odds of 1:1 - the same as flipping a coin playing two-up on Anzac Day."

I'm no mathematician, but I'm pretty sure you flip *two* coins when playing Two-Up.

Also, why are you referencing Two-Up at all? It's got bugger all to do with a casino going under.

"Looks like you skipped your Chinese lessons today. You know what that means!"

I know this is unrelated to your post but I've seen that gif a thousand times and only just noticed Steve Buscemi's shirt says "Music ⚡ Band"

Slowly picking my way through a potentially contested trademark process, going ever greyer as I do.

And to think, when I first started in this industry I thought I'd be making cool advertisements.

Tired: wishing people all the best for 2025.

Wired: wishing people all the best for the second quarter of the century.

Unique *and* instils existential dread!

#HappyNewYear #MerryChristmasYaFilthyAnimals

Flexing on cybertruck owners as I pull my fluorescent lozenge into the work carpark.

The terms and conditions for Sony's cashback offer. The second checkbox bundles together agreeing to the offer's terms and conditions, Sony's privacy policy, Sony's privacy collection notice, the WINK privacy policy (the business running the offer on behalf of Sony), and a consent to receive promo messages from Sony.

Gotta love bundled consent.

It's not enough to offer a seasonal discount on your products, you've got to hide the discount behind a cashback offer that shares your personal data with two different organisations AND requires that you accept their marketing material.

I'm so tired of this crap.

I bet he just says this stuff for the joy he gets watching thousands of investor wonks suddenly lurch frantically about trying to anticipate his next move. It's just flexing on how many people he can get to move at once.

It's nine PM and I just finished an affogato. It was delicious and I'm probably going to regret it in an hour and a half.

Am I innovative and looking for ways to improve our processes? Or have I jumped the gun on a shiny new toy when I should have been doing other, more productive work.

Probably the latter, but if anyone at work asks, it's the former.

This is profoundly niche, but I found out today that Hubspot has a new object type for services.

I enthusiastically go to figure out how it works, only to find there's no documentation on it yet.

Apparently I'm early to the party and I don't know if this is good or bad.

#Marketing #Hubspot

Man, I had such high hopes for that game. Ah well, c'est la vie.

It's dumb, but I think I actually like Bill Shatner's cover better than the original.

The neck and head of an acoustic guitar with a capo on the first fret and a G-chord being formed. A bright, sunny blue sky and rich green foliage is visible in the background.

It's a lovely afternoon for winding down and playing guitar at my neighbours from the front porch.

My chord transitions are still pretty woeful, but I'm just good enough that I can enjoy the music without shitting on myself too hard.

Wait, it's three hours long and still there's a part two?

It's way too early here for this kind of poetic violence

Not gonna lie, you had me in the top half.

You'd think a blob would be the perfect thing to store in a sphere, but here we are. I just stored them in my guts.