Jim Smart / weblog

So a guy calls up a mechanic, because his car is acting all funny, running like crap, belching blue smoke, the works.

The mechanic looks at the car for a few seconds, rummages around in his tool box, pulls out a nut and a washer, crawls under the car with a spanner, and comes out a minute later without the nut and washer.

Then he leans in and starts the car, which runs perfectly.

Then he goes into his office and returns with a bill for £500. The customer goes nuts, screams rants yells, “You just put on ONE nut! And you’re going to charge me £500 for ONE NUT?”

The mechanic shrugs, goes back into his office, and returns with a new bill.

It reads:

Nut: 50 pence
Knowing where to put the nut: £499.50

Total: £500.00

I found this some weeks back, and have enjoyed revisiting it:

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.

Making a statement in a public place, graffiti can be thought provoking and funny; Pictures of Walls is a gallery of walls with stuff written on.

(Found via Space and Culture)

Yesterday night at the Blues Bar, we had the first (and probably the only) public showing of the DVD of “the Wizard of Bloz”—a farcical amateur pantomime production put together for fun and in haste, that ran for one night only, just before Christmas… with all proceeds going to charity.

A giant cardboard cheque for £2000 was presented to a representative from Harrogate Hospital’s Special Care Baby Unit last week, and the photo should be in the local paper later this week.

The ‘official’ Bloz photos (professionally shot by Andrew Sandiford) are available for purchase in photographic print format (with proceeds going to charity), and, for your viewing pleasure, there are also some other photos capturing the event beautifully too. With wonders never ceasing to amaze: we’ve even had a review!

Copies of the movie will soon be available for purchase on DVD-style shiny disc, to be taken home and treasured forever.

Bah! I set myself up a weblog and rush in to get myself a ‘first post’ as fast as I can… only to find I’m beaten by an autogenerated ‘Hello world!’ message.

It’s like some kind of bad in-joke that can (maybe) only be understood by programmers who read slashdot… oh, the irony! (/me ducks and runs)

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