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So I'm sitting here whiling away my morning waiting for my presents (to myself) to arrive from the lovely boys at scan.
I'm tracking it through CityLink's tracker thingy and I see:
07:50 Thursday, October 16, 2008 Goods loaded onto a van
Damnit, I wanted them delivered by pidgeon or camel or something. a VAN? that's just boring.
Class when the man comes say to him O i thought it was comming by pidgeon lol
you never know... he may use a canon... how else do things get so damaged :P
Frankly I'm disappointed, I hear FedEx are using rickshaws pulled by small herds of llamas.
I'm waiting for mine to arrive by helicopter. Not a normal one, by Chinook or something. Why can't Lee deliver them in the Skyline or something!?!? :)
You know what would be cool is if they delivered stuff by portals.
Delivery guy comes and fires 1 portal into where you want the goods and then a chap at the other end in the depot passes your stuff through.
All your minds are warped!
seems a bit in-efficient TBH...Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN
why not just send the parcels with the portal guy?
Don't want a portal guy. Portal GIRL ... now we talking. LOL! :)
no, no.... just a bit hungover and awaiting my pressies.
Just made me chuckle.
Now about that portal Idea... could we have a warehouse operator duplicator so that I might finally get an order picked without a delayed order notification? And you would think by now that they would EXPECT the UNEXPECTED volumes in the warehouse... coz I do!
why not just chuck in a free pizza at delivery time :drool:
You guys must have enough techno-jiggery-pokery knocking around, surely you could build a portal gun A-Team style?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN
I know... next time I put an order onto scan... I'm gonna phone up and let them know to expect that there will be unexpected volumes in the warehouse that night... so they can get some more peeps!
You don't have to thank me, all part of the service.
:D Guys I'm pulling your legs. In a bit of a silly mood today
Funny I thought most couriers used my stuff as replacements for there lunch time football/rugby ball.
And carrier pigeons would be awesome, that'd be an interesting sight dozens of pigeons on the horizon lugging a huge scan box of goodies.
*coughs*Quote:
Originally Posted by tiggerai
How come you're skiving off work then?
The African or European Swallow?
(actually i'm really tired + hungover at work today, the bloody northern line just seamed to stop working properly after 11pm last night :( Ended up taking a bus half the way)
Not at work, not hungover, although slightly tired. Managed to even JUST about catch a fast train back to Basingstoke!
oii you!Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Leon
I'm not skiving... I'm at work!
I want that 16 wheel truck to turn up when I order something (the one CityLink have on their tracking page!) that would be SO cool.
BTW your parcel arrived yet Tigs? Mine has. :P
shouldn't that be "goods loaded into a van" ?
if you put them on the roof they will fall off :(
yeah, my pressies arrived about an hour ago :)
so what did you get urself?
or is it a surprise?
Well it isn't a surprise now!!
New earphones as mine died a death on monday and an ext HDD so I can back up my music collection.
What EHDD did you Get T? I'm trying to decide on one for me.
WD MyPassport 160Gb in Red. :) Have wanted one for a while.
tbh, it's about time that we can send physical items via ftp/instant message..
/put cuppa > tiggerai
/get new_telly > home
:D
My deliveries usually get delivered by the red arrows.
Not a cup of tea or a new telly, but you could FTP (the cad files for) some items.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stoo
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/o...op-3d-printer/
:)
aaah, good old stereolithographyQuote:
Originally Posted by Funkstar
should come in handy when it matures :)
portals and red arrows and all that would be cool, but lets face it, a Jetpack dude would be awesome.
And i bet Lee would volunteer to be the first in line to test it too!
Citylink use those big Yellow invisible vans. You never see one when your epxecting your new toys yet when your out on the road you see hundreds of them !
Quote:
Originally Posted by Behemoth
OMG sunday night chuckling!!! Lol.
True though.
Trouble is round here Citylink sub-contract out to people with bog standard white vans, stuff always turns up like it's been used for a game of 5 a side.
It's the invisible yellow and silver vans you need to watch out for. They are the special ones!