What’s in a name?
I just got back from a very pleasant excursion to South London; an oxymoron, I know. On my way I catalogued some quaint and some not so quaint shop signs.
The first one is lovely - it’s just down the Walworth Road from me: Mixed Blessings Bakery. Later on there was another nicely named bakery in Camberwell, this time on a more classical theme: Socrates Bakery.
Then there was Albertine’s, a pub. Not somewhere you’d have expected to bump into Proust though.
Next, and probably my favourite, was Innovations - Unravelling Potentials. You can see what they mean, but unravelling perhaps wasn’t the best word choice.
Finally, and the comedy kind of writes itself here, was Rimworld. Nice.
Honest job advert
While trawling the (uniformly awful) recruitment websites, I came across this rather too honest job description:
Figure that one out
Here’s a photo of an emergency phone in Norfolk. It’s a little indistinct in the photo, but the instructions say: ‘Dial 999 for Coastguard, Police, Fire or Ambulance’. Thankfully, we had a mobile phone.
Programs say the funniest things
Elgato’s EyeTV software developed a spontaneous and sarcastic sense of humour today:
