Just thought I'd post these for something a bit different...
You know some people can see these hidden 3D images really easily but for others it can be a bit of a struggle and can be ultra annoying.
If you can see them here's a tip... Hold a finger to the center of the picture and just stare at it. Let your eyes relax and in time you should see two fingers instead of one. Now focus at the image between the two fingers and slowly move your finger out of the way. The picture should now reveal the hidden 3D image.
Can you see the hidden objects?
Post more pictures here because it's fun and can be addictive once you get the hang of it!!!
OK in case some of you didn’t know we have recently added a new member to the Zazz team… Going by the name of ‘Miss Peri-Peri’ she’ll more than likely be the first point of contact whenever you contact the Zazz team with any queries you may have!
Let’s face it… you know how important you all are to us and when we decided to appoint a new customer relations executive we definitely wanted the best. And believe me… we got the best!!! She really is brilliant at what she does!
Now what can I tell you guys about her – well she’s got a Portuguese background, she loves to bake and she’s got a ripper of a personality. She’s also quickly enamoured herself to the whole Zazz team after banning some of Mr Nice Guy’s atrocious office music which has been a big relief to everyone. There will now officially be NO MORE Michael Bolton and The Carpenters in the office unless headphones are utilised!!! Anyway, she’s heaps of fun to have around the office but she doesn’t have a very good forum avatar.
SO, we decided to continue the tradition for new Zazz employees and hold a competition for you guys. Design an avatar for Miss Peri-Peri and you could win yourself a really nice prize. Now we’re talking something really cool so just post your entries right here in this thread to be in the running to win.
Not so long ago I used to think of worms as something you used for bait when you went fishing. Trojans were the inhabitants of the ancient city of Troy or an American brand of condom and a virus was something you sometimes got in the wintertime!
However I now know differently thanks to some creep who infected a file I recently downloaded. My whole system completely shut down and repeatedly crashed…
Anyway, I did some research to see what the virus actually was and I found some interesting information… Did you know that a ninth grader named Rich Skrenta actually created the first known computer virus back in 1982?
Rich Skrenta... The father of the computer virus...
Skrenta was basically distrusted by his friends because he’d alter his floppy disks to shut down or display taunting on-screen messages when he shared his pirated computer games and software with them. So what he did was think of different methods to alter these disks without actually touching them. He ended up working out a way to launch the messages automatically by developing what is now known as a boot sector virus. He began circulating it among his friends and at the local computer club. How annoying was this kid huh?
So the actual virus was called the Elk Cloner. The way it worked was that an infected computer would display a short poem on every 50th boot. The Elk Cloner didn’t cause deliberate harm, but disks without a standard image had their reserved tracks overwritten.
The virus would display a poem like the following:
Elk Cloner: The program with a personality
It will get on all your disks
It will infiltrate your chips
Yes, it's Cloner!
It will stick to you like glue
It will modify RAM too
Send in the Cloner!
Now as it happens, this kid turned out to be some hot shot computer whizz and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Rich, famous and a hero to all the hackers out there… To me and most of you though he’s just the bloke who’s caused us a lot of problems with our computers!!! Thanks Rich, ya lousy little &%^$@#!!!
Every year we get a lot of requests from kids who want to do their work experience at Zazz. Obviously we like to do the right thing so we usually give a couple of young fellas a break when we can. You know, get them in the warehouse and teach them a few things.
Generally speaking everything usually seems to work out quite well. I mean, the kid gets to do work experience at a cool joint and we get some slave labour.
However, sometimes things can go real pear shaped. The other day we showed our latest child servant Kevin, how to use the pallet jack... Now there's not all that much to it so we basically left him to move some pallets around from point A to point B. Pretty simple job really.
Around five minutes into his allotted task we heard a massive crashing sound followed by a bit of high quality swearing. Now I don't know how he did it but young Kev managed to almost fully push the forks out of the jack. Have a look at the picture to get a better idea of what actually happened.
Now Zazz Tech Man's normally a pretty mild mannered bloke but I tell you, his blood was at boiling point when he saw his beloved pallet jack in almost two pieces... Especially as the young fella thought it was hilarious and was nonchalantly posing for pictures. Maybe that was more my fault than his but still!!!
Anyway, it took us about an hour to fix it but thank God for Kevin's sake it was all sorted out in the end.
Anyhow, not much else I can tell you aside from the fact that it's really just another crazy day at Zazz headquarters!
If anyone's got any funny work experience or intern stories then we'd really love to hear them. And if they're really funny we'll reward you for posting by sending you a prize!!!
Twas a rather amusing Christmas lunch at the Nice Guy household the other week when the fellas came around for a bit of a feed.
We decided to bake a breast of turbaconducken as the main dish. For those that don't know it's a turkey breast stuffed with duck breasts followed by a chicken breast. Then you coat everything in herbs and season it really well before rolling it up, wrapping it in bacon and baking it.
Now it kind of takes a little while to prepare the whole thing. Especially if you've decided to have all the finxings and stuff. It was basically me and my little brother getting the whole lunch ready and we probably started drinking beer and wine waaaayyyyyy too early.
So by the time the guests arrived the music was pumping, we had a shrine dedicated to Tupac Shakur on the balcony and after about a half an hour we ran out of beer. Nevertheless, there was still plenty of wine and vodka so nobody was going to miss out. After a few beverages, we served everything up and made sure everyone ate and drank their full measure.
For some of the guys the whole boozy lunch was a bit of a struggle. There was a mini crisis when our mate Razman suddenly disappeared. We looked all over the house and couldn't find him anywhere. He wasn't answering his phone and we started to worry. Just as we were planning to scour the streets for him my brother found him curled up in my ball chair in the corner of the living room. He actually turned it to the wall and you just couldn't see him unless you spun the chair around which my brother did by complete accident. So he pretty much flaked out and slept through Christmas!
Then Zazz's very own rapscallion, Adam decided to invite himself over to the hot chick's apartment upstairs. He made an ass of himself trying to hit on her and came back to sulk after she chucked him out!!! While all this was happening my brother started doing some weird Seminole Indian tribal dance around the living room to 'The End' by the Doors. Pretty standard stuff around my place but I decided to call it an afternoon when one of the guys donned the free mankini that came with my Borat DVD. Like who wants some bloke hanging around, drinking champagne on the porch in a mankini. Well not me, that's for sure!
Anyway, what else can I say except that it was a fun afternoon and a great way to spend Christmas.
So how did you guys spend your Christmas? We'd love to her any funny stories of yours and will send prizes for the best ones!!!
By now you may have noticed that we're kind of an odd bunch here at Zazz... So it should come as no surprise that Paintball was the chosen form of Christmas party for us this year!!!
Anyway, we arrived at the venue and decided that we would split into two groups... Zazz employees versus whoever else. Had to laugh at one of the warehouse guys who rocked up with virtually a full wetsuit under his clothes for added protection! After a rather detailed motivational and tactical speech from Zazz Tech Man we took stock of the equipment and hit the field.
Now after all the General Patton type planning that went into the Zazz team strategy what do you think happened?. Well as soon as the whistle blew we all went pretty feral and just ran around firing at will. Some of the guys had clearly seen too many action movies and were sliding and rolling along the filthy floor like John Rambo!
But you couldn't blame anyone for getting carried away cos it was our one opportunity to shoot one another and we were sure going to make the most of it! You know, nothing personal... just kill or be killed really!
I believe Adam was actually the first to 'die' and took a round of paintball in the face. It was a personal highlight listening to him complain about the revolting taste of paint too! I copped several shots in the back and I'm not 100% sure but I think it was friendly fire! If I find out who is responsible there's gonna be trouble!
Team Zazz was all over the opposition and we had them cowering behind pylons and hiding in bunkers. Like a true General, ZTM was shouting strategies and tactics from the sidelines and I guess it must have worked because we were one fierce fighting machine!
Maybe the team bonding side of things didn't really go to plan because we were more like a bunch of feral animals but who cares? We had a great day and despite some of the nasty wounds we got it was well worth doing.
