Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

...The Show went well tonight - Rich Orford has a great ability to get so close the the line, without quite crossing it, so it's pretty exciting working with him, almost as his straight man....

The suggestion of blow up Michelle dolls might have been a tad over the line, perhaps?

The meeting yesterday was odd - full of senior suits & suitesses, & not one with a tie or suit. My dad would have had a seizure if I'd gone to work without a suit & tie. Times change.

In fairness, most of them wore collared shirts

The blow-up Doll thing. So, you were watching? Oops.

Err.......well.....in fairness to my good pal Richard, I make no further comment. Certainly, near the line. Not entirely sure which side, mind. I stuck to Boeing 777's, Combine Harvesters, & threepenny bits. Safe, but sends peeps to sleep. OFCOM have no worries with me.

The collared shirts - yes, absolutely. I had an "emergency" tie with me, in case I had misjudged things! Very strange, for one so old-fashioned as me.

[tikay]

Orpey is doing In-Poker with me this week, as Compo is not available. She'll go down well in Manchester, I fancy.

LOL

I'm glad someone spotted it......

sigh, just sigh!

Is that a contented sort of "sigh"?

It's a 'think of the paperwork' type of sigh.

For "paperwork", read "written notice is on it's way", I fear. Oh well.....

[tikay]

Still, Spurs are doing the business so all is good in the world at the moment.   

Let's not discuss Mr Sugar's tenure, or I may get in trouble. The Club just up the road has so much more class.

[tikay]

I give you a new nomination

been spending some time browsing Forbes...


Sakichi Toyoda was a weaver who, in 1924, invented a loom that would detect an error and automatically cease production, preventing the creation of defective goods. He later sold the patent on his machine to a British firm for about $150,000. That money was used to help his son found a start-up, Toyota, which would become the world's second-biggest carmaker. Toyoda's innovation of instilling human judgment on machines, also known as autonomation or Jidoka, would be adopted to his son's automobile enterprise--and then almost every industrial enterprise--cutting down on waste, improving customer relations, revealing problems and conserving resources.

Corporate Heirs
Toyota Motors (nyse: TM - news - people ), Honda (nyse: HMC - news - people ), Nissan (otc: NSANY - news - people ), Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people )

I don't buy "detecting errors" Rich. Preventing them is surely the better way......

[DesD]

...The Show went well tonight - Rich Orford has a great ability to get so close the the line, without quite crossing it, so it's pretty exciting working with him, almost as his straight man....

The suggestion of blow up Michelle dolls might have been a tad over the line, perhaps?

The meeting yesterday was odd - full of senior suits & suitesses, & not one with a tie or suit. My dad would have had a seizure if I'd gone to work without a suit & tie. Times change.

In fairness, most of them wore collared shirts

The blow-up Doll thing. So, you were watching? Oops.

Err.......well.....in fairness to my good pal Richard, I make no further comment. Certainly, near the line. Not entirely sure which side, mind. I stuck to Boeing 777's, Combine Harvesters, & threepenny bits. Safe, but sends peeps to sleep. OFCOM have no worries with me.

The collared shirts - yes, absolutely. I had an "emergency" tie with me, in case I had misjudged things! Very strange, for one so old-fashioned as me.

It would have been a rare treat to have seen a fully suited & tie'd group of execs digesting the definitions of FML and muffed, amongst others.  

[DesD]

Still, Spurs are doing the business so all is good in the world at the moment.   

Let's not discuss Mr Sugar's tenure, or I may get in trouble. The Club just up the road has so much more class.

lol....as a Liverpool fan my interest is not wholly Spurs orientated.

[tikay]

The journey from Feltham to Manchester was hell - the M6 was closed J15-J16, what a nightmare. The distance is 4 lattes.

The Hotel is lovely though, & I plan to have a quiet night in, railing tonight's Sky Poker Vegas-Lite Final, our first of 2.

Tomorrow, we have the 2nd of 3 Viva Las Vegas Finals - serious stuff, but fun stuff too. Serious Fun. Much excitement on the Site right now, with folks busy qualifying via all sorts of different routes.

The Sky Poker "Mini-View Tables went live this week, to much acclaim. They are terrific - very "sharp", instant interchange between "Standard View" & "Mini-View", just the job.

[Karabiner]

TESCO   T.E. Stockwell and Albert Cohen

Nooooooo! Close, but no cigar.

JACK Cohen!

When Jack Cohen was knighted in the 1970's I think it was, he became Sir John Cohen which rather tickled me.

That's odd Ralph. John Kirkland's father was "Jack", John is known to his family as "Jack", & John's son was christened Jack. John is married to a Jewish lady, Sheila, & is part Jewish himself - does that explain the Jack & John thing?

I've no idea Tony, I presumed that they thought John sounded "posher" than Jack, rather like the special accent some folk suddenly acquire when they speak on the telephone.

[tikay]

...The Show went well tonight - Rich Orford has a great ability to get so close the the line, without quite crossing it, so it's pretty exciting working with him, almost as his straight man....

The suggestion of blow up Michelle dolls might have been a tad over the line, perhaps?

The meeting yesterday was odd - full of senior suits & suitesses, & not one with a tie or suit. My dad would have had a seizure if I'd gone to work without a suit & tie. Times change.

In fairness, most of them wore collared shirts

The blow-up Doll thing. So, you were watching? Oops.

Err.......well.....in fairness to my good pal Richard, I make no further comment. Certainly, near the line. Not entirely sure which side, mind. I stuck to Boeing 777's, Combine Harvesters, & threepenny bits. Safe, but sends peeps to sleep. OFCOM have no worries with me.

The collared shirts - yes, absolutely. I had an "emergency" tie with me, in case I had misjudged things! Very strange, for one so old-fashioned as me.

It would have been a rare treat to have seen a fully suited & tie'd group of execs digesting the definitions of FML and muffed, amongst others.  

Now this is interesting, & without talking out of school, the dicussion as to what is, & is not, acceptable on TV, to viewers, Management, & OFCOM, fascinated me. I do know that one "slip" can be terminal!

In the little insular world pf Poker Fora, expressions such as "fml", "muffed" & "suck-out" are in everyday use, & not in the least offensive. I like to keep the right side of "decent & respectful" (in the main......), but I am fine with them all. They are genuine poker expressions. But if - hypothetically - one mentioned these in a room full of TV Execs & Marketing Gurus, the collective gasp would be deafening!

And they were all so young!

[celtic]

TESCO   T.E. Stockwell and Albert Cohen

Nooooooo! Close, but no cigar.

JACK Cohen!

When Jack Cohen was knighted in the 1970's I think it was, he became Sir John Cohen which rather tickled me.

That's odd Ralph. John Kirkland's father was "Jack", John is known to his family as "Jack", & John's son was christened Jack. John is married to a Jewish lady, Sheila, & is part Jewish himself - does that explain the Jack & John thing?

I've no idea Tony, I presumed that they thought John sounded "posher" than Jack, rather like the special accent some folk suddenly acquire when they speak on the telephone.

John & Jock is the same name in scotland, maybe the same with John & Jack in Engerlund?

[tikay]

Good Luck to jakally this weekend in his quest for a Sky Poker Vegas package. Good luck to everybody, really, but jakally keeps getting so close, & has been a good, loyal Client.

So good luck to them all, and equally. A bit more equally to jakally though.

[Royal Flush]

When does the sky advert end?

Blonde Poker Cardroom FTW!

[DesD]

Orpey is doing In-Poker with me this week, as Compo is not available. She'll go down well in Manchester, I fancy.

LOL

I'm glad someone spotted it......

sigh, just sigh!

Is that a contented sort of "sigh"?

It's a 'think of the paperwork' type of sigh.

For "paperwork", read "written notice is on it's way", I fear. Oh well.....

I once worked for a large northern based retailer who was going through a merger with a southern based retailer.  I had an experienced product team reporting to me, each capable of doing an outstanding job.  The change involved merging departments across companies and it became obligatory to offer the product team attractive redundancy packages.  The team were all 20+ year vets and each decided to take the money.  Part of their package was an agreement to train new people into their roles (it was a complicated merger).   In reality, none of the existing team actually wanted to leave, they just couldn't resist the payoff.  Their prospects for getting similar roles without moving south were pretty slim and they knew it.  Their replacements were pretty inexperienced and largely afraid to challenge the existing team, while the existing team resented their being there.  The handover period was agreed as a ridiculous six months.  During that period I had to deal with more HR type issues than I would have imagined possible, most of it brought about by the HR department.  Amongst other things, I remember the paperwork being horrific.  

[DesD]

Still, Spurs are doing the business so all is good in the world at the moment.   

Let's not discuss Mr Sugar's tenure, or I may get in trouble. The Club just up the road has so much more class.

lol....as a Liverpool fan my interest is not wholly Spurs orientated.

boked 'em

[DesD]

When does the sky advert end?

Blonde Poker Cardroom FTW!

James, you are just so sensible now