Got anything new to report? - Min's MinIT Update. Friday 20th June 2014

Well hello hello! Its's Friday, it's the weekend, and everyone on the Met Line is looking super happy....not

Yeah ok, so England lost again but the Italians can still save the day right? Err scratch that, just seen that Costa Rica scored. Never mind, perhaps it's fate and we have to wait till the year ends in '66...

Let's look around...

A lady is using her high powered iPhone (5S) to play...candy crush. Great...

Just done my good deed for the day and let some dude take my seat as his legs are broken. If I now win the lottery tomorrow, let me know if you want to take over the blog...

Advert for the week: Be a great westerner. This is an advert for Great Western. Woah must have taken ages to come up with that one,..think I might change career.

App of the week: Picture the scene . It's 28 degrees, your on the copa cabana beach (how good was it for them to name it after one of Barry Manilows  songs (how do you make Barry Manilow's nose a mile long...fold it half))..where was I again?

Oh yeah, on the beach and you are imaging that you are Pele or Beckham and practising free kicks and doing super duper curls over the wall and into the top corner. That reminds me, how cool is that  shaving foam they are using in the tournaments to keep the walls at bay. I do like the way the referee does a happy face in front of the ball too!

Anyways, with this amazing app, called Flick Kick, you can live out this fantasy, though it's a regular stadium rather than the beach. That bit was just in there to get you to read this far.

There are lots of challenges, from arcade to how many goals can you score in a minute. Do you know how you flick your finger in your nose when you have a little ball up there, well it's the same action you do on the screen. You can really curl that thing... Then come back to the game when your done. My highest score is 73 on arcade so let me know when you've beaten that Steve and Ket.  (It's not really but won't say until you beat my true score). The other great thing it does apart from showing slow motions when you get it really close to the crossbar, it that you can play your regular music in the background. I tend to play the 'Crying for no reason - Katy B' track as that seems to fit in nicely with watching the England games. Min Marks out of 10...9.534

Tech News: I read yesterday that there are going to be 2 versions of the next iPhone, one that a bit bigger and then a 'yo mamma's so fat' size one to compete with all the other phablets out there. The iWatch has some crazy price being banded about of around $450, so I might just have to stick with my timex for a few more years.

Joke of the week: England.

Right, it's going to be a super nice weekend I hear, I'm off to an Indian wedding for a change so hope Mrs Min hasn't left me by Sunday morning as I don't know how to tie my tie.

Ta ta,

A small man called Min

 

Got anything new to report? - Min's MinIT Update. Friday 6th June 2014

Guten tarken or something like that...Hello hello, and today's blog comes to you live from Dusseldorf! Been here a couple of days and I have learnt a few things such as 1. Everyone is super duper efficient. 2. They do actually laugh ( from time to time). 

Currently the blog is coming live from the airport and my flight back is showing a delay of 15mins which in reality I know means at least an hour as they will just keep adding 10mins to the delay even though they full well know the plane is currently crossing France...(err hello, we know about plane finder.net)

What I watched this week: carrying on with the airline theme, I watched the new series on BBC1 about BA - behind the scenes. It was super interesting and I learnt that they had brought their first big plane (A380). Everyone was very excited and they checked it out for scratches and in first class they spoke about how they had moved the luggage thing above your head to be next to you in first class. (That was actually my idea as I always have to ask the stewardess to do this for me). They then had some bits about the cost of maintenance (£637m per year) and how some items that need changing cost more than your house. Finally we learnt about the rigorous process for becoming a cabin member, which involved everything from looking the part, to dealing with dead people. Nope you can't just hide them in the toilet folks...if you got 4 snapshots ( I kept thinking of screenshots when they said this), you were basically fired and had to go back to working behind a bar...one chap had this happen to him as he forgot the configuration of the 747 and said 2-4-2, rather than 3-4-3, so look our for him at your local bar...Min marks out of 10 -9.36

Gadget of the week: After 8 years of good service I thought it was time to replace the trusty electric toothbrush as finally the rubber was starting to come away. Having served the Min family very well (yep just have different heads, mines was blue) it was time to see what was out there. After extensive researc on the internet - googled "what is the best toothbrush", the man in the computer told me to check out the Braun Oral B 5000 - Triumph as most people said it was rather good and hadn't lost any more teeth since using it.

I was umming and arrring about it as at £67 that's a lot of manual toothbrushes ( especially from the poundshop (3 for a £1)) and then I saw that it came with a WIRELESS SMARTGUIDE. 1.3seconds later, it was ordered!

The next day (Thanks Prime) it arrived in a big box and for the next 30 minutes I read the manual, watched the YouTube video (aren't cats funny?) and then assembled the kit. What can I say...OMG, it's simply changed my life. It's loads more powerful than my previous one and comes with about 6 heads to do everything from polish, floss, sensitive to making your tea. If you press to hard it shows you a red light! I had to get the drain cleaners in after I used it as it got that much stuff out from between my teeth...and yes my dear blog reader the SMARTGUIDE is indeed what makes it so much more fun. You stick it on the wall and as you start brushing it shows you which quadrant of your mouth to brush and how long and this is the best bit...gives you a star rating! ( little tip for you if you brush for 3 mins rather than 2, you get 5 stars!! Min marks out of 10...9.97

Min joke of the week:

Hoodie 1: if it wasn't for our grandad's bravery on D Day, we'd be speaking a strange language now

Hoodie 2: true dat...

Right, time to board the flight! Have a lovely weekend and a great sleep...

A small man called Min