Playing silly buggers....
Hi all,
(this is presumptuous of course, presupposing that there may be a plural figure of readers, but I live in hope)
I've been having a little play with my Gimp arty program thing. The result..
Now you may be wondering what on earth that is. I shall tell you. My van at work has no rear wiper. This means that the rear screen has to be cleaned manually on a fairly regular basis, and as it is a relatively large area..
(My van is white (of course)!! The above is for illustration only)
..I save time by removing one of the front wiper blades and squeegying the rear. A couple of quick wipes and it's done. I accidentally squeegied the window the other day in a fashion not unlike a real wiper, and it left a nice arc of clean shiny glass surrounded by lots of soggy dirt. Not having a wiper attached to the van made it look a bit.. err.. odd. So, the reason that the above arty piccy thing exists is so I can print it onto a white sticky label, and then adhere it to the van in a position such that with arc shaped dirt, and a bit of smudging here and there, it will look as though someone has the nicked the wiper motor, arm and blade..
.. sort of like that, only I rushed that and it's obvious that I need to work on my selection skills.. :)
When not driving around the Borough in an exemplary manner, we do other stuff around the various town buildings. My van is therefore parked up at the office with the rear facing the most popular of outdoor smoking haunts our building has to offer. My boss also enjoys a few minutes there having a ciggy. Hopefully it's convincing enough from anywhere further than say 5 feet, that I may have to be invited to said boss's office and asked the reason for my van's wipery incompleteness. I can then act dumb and see how long I can keep a straight face as various discussions on my future are enacted. (I won't point out unless necessary the fact that it is impossible to remove the complete unit without access to the inside of the van)
Yes, it's silly and childish and moronic even, and I've spent a couple of hours of my Saturday doing this, but I'm like that.
Cheers
Liam
(this is presumptuous of course, presupposing that there may be a plural figure of readers, but I live in hope)
I've been having a little play with my Gimp arty program thing. The result..
Now you may be wondering what on earth that is. I shall tell you. My van at work has no rear wiper. This means that the rear screen has to be cleaned manually on a fairly regular basis, and as it is a relatively large area..
(My van is white (of course)!! The above is for illustration only)
..I save time by removing one of the front wiper blades and squeegying the rear. A couple of quick wipes and it's done. I accidentally squeegied the window the other day in a fashion not unlike a real wiper, and it left a nice arc of clean shiny glass surrounded by lots of soggy dirt. Not having a wiper attached to the van made it look a bit.. err.. odd. So, the reason that the above arty piccy thing exists is so I can print it onto a white sticky label, and then adhere it to the van in a position such that with arc shaped dirt, and a bit of smudging here and there, it will look as though someone has the nicked the wiper motor, arm and blade..
.. sort of like that, only I rushed that and it's obvious that I need to work on my selection skills.. :)
When not driving around the Borough in an exemplary manner, we do other stuff around the various town buildings. My van is therefore parked up at the office with the rear facing the most popular of outdoor smoking haunts our building has to offer. My boss also enjoys a few minutes there having a ciggy. Hopefully it's convincing enough from anywhere further than say 5 feet, that I may have to be invited to said boss's office and asked the reason for my van's wipery incompleteness. I can then act dumb and see how long I can keep a straight face as various discussions on my future are enacted. (I won't point out unless necessary the fact that it is impossible to remove the complete unit without access to the inside of the van)
Yes, it's silly and childish and moronic even, and I've spent a couple of hours of my Saturday doing this, but I'm like that.
Cheers
Liam
posted by Liam | 2:21 PM
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