So had the meeting with Helen from procurement about replacing the printer(s). Surprise, surprise it has to go out to tender.
We can include Ricoh via the Crescent Agreement but we can't specify them (or details such as 'must have a fiery rip). As Bruce has been told more than once.
He's not happy at all (his face was an absolute picture)!
How it goes (if I've remembered this right)
We have to set criteria and then that get's sent off to a number of companies inviting them to tender. They submit proposals and, if there are any questions on either side there is a time put aside for this. We then get to score the tender details and then a supplier is chosen. All in all it should take about 6 weeks (exactly the same as last time Bruce was told this in June 2014). That means we're looking at an order around mid-February for delivery mid-late March (ie when I'm off doing big graduations).
After she'd gone he complained that she walways wants things to go out to tender & that there must be an easier way.
Hahahahahahaha!
He's wasted a year trying to get Ricoh in without going through the procurement procedure and now he's in a strop because he's been blocked.
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Friday, 20 November 2015
Cadwins Curies
So we ordered om of these on Tuesday as they finally had something I fancied. We were told that it would be delivered between 18.30 & 20.30 on Thursday.
Went home and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
At 20.20-25 I went out to call them and find out where it was. I was told that we were one of the last drops and that it would be there before 20.30 (which seemed unlikely). Was offerred the driver's number but i) had nowt to write it down & ii) he would be driving.
He finally turned up about 20.40-ish and even then was around the corner. He did apologize but have to say I was still very unimpressed by this (we could have had a sit down meal in Cocum in the time) & tweeted as such...
By the time it actually turned up we were a bit too hungry to eat so went over to the Isaac. Anna came up with a weird saying: "Play with matches, you'll wet yourself." She swears this is a saying in Poland but we think she was just screwing with Sophie's brain. Dushan claims he's heard it to but I'm not sure I believe him...
[Update: the curry was OK but nowhere near as good as one from the place on Mitchum's Corner]
Went home and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
At 20.20-25 I went out to call them and find out where it was. I was told that we were one of the last drops and that it would be there before 20.30 (which seemed unlikely). Was offerred the driver's number but i) had nowt to write it down & ii) he would be driving.
He finally turned up about 20.40-ish and even then was around the corner. He did apologize but have to say I was still very unimpressed by this (we could have had a sit down meal in Cocum in the time) & tweeted as such...
By the time it actually turned up we were a bit too hungry to eat so went over to the Isaac. Anna came up with a weird saying: "Play with matches, you'll wet yourself." She swears this is a saying in Poland but we think she was just screwing with Sophie's brain. Dushan claims he's heard it to but I'm not sure I believe him...
[Update: the curry was OK but nowhere near as good as one from the place on Mitchum's Corner]
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Busy Tuesday (17/11/15)
It was the Techtalks event today. Went to the 3D one but didn't learn a whole lot. Did howver get to hold an exact replica of the William Webb Ellis Trophy.
Canon scanned the original with a 3D laser, 3d printed it and then plated it.
After the talks had finished there was beer & pizza in the foyer. Lou came over for it. Sue overordered the pizza somewhat. After lots had been eaten and taken home there was still loads left. I suggested taking it to Jimmy's Night Shelter. When I called they were happy but couldn't get anybody to come pick it up. I suggested we get a taxi and Sue ordered it on the University account. There were 43 boxes left at 19.00!
We put them in bin bags for ease of moving. When we got to Jimmy's Lou went in while I waited. The bloke inside was happy with the bag then surprised when Lou told him there were 3 more full bags outside. When we got them in the residents were like meercats (heads popping up followed by the rest of their bodies).
A good deed done!
Walking home was a 'mare though! The wind is always bad around the fire station - add high winds from storm Barney and Lou was stopped dead and I could only move forwards with extreme effort.
Stopped in the Mitre then onto the Isaac. Missed both England goals as was talking to Heather, who was watching the tennis in the pool room. She said that the crowd singing the french anthem and the players mixing together for a minutes silence was brilliant.
After the game we went outside to see that the sign for the Isaac was hanging on by one corner. Helped Dick with the ladder while Dushan climbed up and ripped the sign off. Dread to think what would have happened if it had blown off....
Canon scanned the original with a 3D laser, 3d printed it and then plated it.
After the talks had finished there was beer & pizza in the foyer. Lou came over for it. Sue overordered the pizza somewhat. After lots had been eaten and taken home there was still loads left. I suggested taking it to Jimmy's Night Shelter. When I called they were happy but couldn't get anybody to come pick it up. I suggested we get a taxi and Sue ordered it on the University account. There were 43 boxes left at 19.00!
We put them in bin bags for ease of moving. When we got to Jimmy's Lou went in while I waited. The bloke inside was happy with the bag then surprised when Lou told him there were 3 more full bags outside. When we got them in the residents were like meercats (heads popping up followed by the rest of their bodies).
A good deed done!
Walking home was a 'mare though! The wind is always bad around the fire station - add high winds from storm Barney and Lou was stopped dead and I could only move forwards with extreme effort.
Stopped in the Mitre then onto the Isaac. Missed both England goals as was talking to Heather, who was watching the tennis in the pool room. She said that the crowd singing the french anthem and the players mixing together for a minutes silence was brilliant.
After the game we went outside to see that the sign for the Isaac was hanging on by one corner. Helped Dick with the ladder while Dushan climbed up and ripped the sign off. Dread to think what would have happened if it had blown off....
Monday, 16 November 2015
Paris
We were in the Isaac after the England game when Sky Sports News ran a headline reporting explosions had been heard in the Stad de France where France were playing Germany in a friendly.
Went onto twitter and read of multiple attacks in Paris. When we went home we put the news on and found that many had been callously shot while enjoying a drink or a meal on a mild Friday night.
Even worse, after murdering so many, the attackers went to the Bataclan venue and opened fire, killing and maiming randomly. So far the combined death toll is 132 with 350 injured, 100 critically.
Some faith in humanity was restored by Parisians using the#PorteOuverte hastag offering shelter to stranded
The stories that came out over the weekend were both horrific and amazing.
Heysel survivor survies again.
He was dressed in black
Moving testomony
His phone saved his life
All this just 10 months after the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Went onto twitter and read of multiple attacks in Paris. When we went home we put the news on and found that many had been callously shot while enjoying a drink or a meal on a mild Friday night.
Even worse, after murdering so many, the attackers went to the Bataclan venue and opened fire, killing and maiming randomly. So far the combined death toll is 132 with 350 injured, 100 critically.
Some faith in humanity was restored by Parisians using the
The stories that came out over the weekend were both horrific and amazing.
Heysel survivor survies again.
He was dressed in black
Moving testomony
His phone saved his life
All this just 10 months after the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Further FUP policies
- All forests to be sold off & the “Right to Roam” laws revoked (we don’t want preachers of hate radicalizing swathes of trees!).
- David Cameron & his descendants to get a pig’s head on the 1st day of Michaelmass term at Oxford in perpetuity. The pig to be delivered live on TV by Boris Johnson & his descendants
- Applicants to high office required to duel for the job. 1st one to draw blood from the opponents torso gets the job. [As a bonus, this will make “The Apprentice” more entertaining then some rectum monkey’s trying to flog tat and being shouted at by a fat old bloke]
- Union strike laws to be toughened up with a minimum of 99.5% of the eligible members voting to be considered legal with unions required to give a minimum of 6 months notice so businesses can get ready.
- Pubs allowed to serve beer in quarts and flagons. All foreign wine banned and replaced by British wine (which will have become tremendous due global warming). Want lager or poncy cider with ice? Fuck You!
The Fuck You Party
I'm going to launch a new political party - The Fuck You! Party.
In the main our policies will just be the same as the Tories:
* Worried about personal privacy? Fuck You! What have you got to hide? Are you a terrorist peado?
** This will get rid of all those Johnny Foreigners and give a massive boost to the ancestry research community.
*** Special Terrorist Assessment, Surveillance and Intelligence
In the main our policies will just be the same as the Tories:
- To poor to eat? Fuck You!
- To old & poor to heat your home? Fuck You!
- Disabled? Fuck You!
- Young and unemployed? Fuck You!
- All phone & computer companies required by law to include GCHQ software on their products or be banned from trading in the UK & all it's dependent territories. Want a shiny new iPhone? Fuck You!
- All citizens must log into the internet by 1st entering their ID number (from the ID Cards we'll be issuing*) on to a device supplied by the Government via Capita (probably made in China).
- All people who can't trace their ancestry back to, say, 1500 will be deemed foreigners and deported 'home' or to the nearest modern approximation [One bonus of this policy is that Nigel Farage will suddenly be France's problem].** The exception will be the Royal Family, any rich oligarchs or despotic sultans from oil-rich countries.
- The BBC will be closed down and replaced by Fox News. ITV will be required to provide 24/7 game-shows & soaps to quell the heaving masses.
- The NHS will be sold off to the private sector and all staff (that haven't been deported for being foreign) will be made redundant so they can apply for exciting new opportunities in the zero-hours contract sector. Want to keep the NHS - Fuck You!
- All libraries & Museums to be sold off to the private sector who will make them leaner & more efficient. Want culture - Fuck You!
- The UK will pull out of the EU and all other institutions except the UN where we'll keep our seat & veto.
- We will re-new Trident. We'll do more than that; we'll rent tons of them from America and the army can then be cut to 1 bloke called Sean who does it between turns on ITV game-shows. We'll flog the Navy to China and the RAF to Carol Vorderman.
- We know that we need to be vigilant against criminals, terrorists and commie bastards so we'll extend 'Neighbourhood Watch' to every corner of the country with rewards for informants who let GCHQ know when a muslimic commie peado is lurking in the vegetable isle of Tesco's (actually their iPhones will probably spot him before the STASI*** operative does)
- The Police will told to focus on economic crimes as these are the ones that damage our country most of all. If they quibble we'll dangle the prospect of privatisation.
- The fire service will become the property of the insurance industry. Generating jobs in the 'Putting-Up-Shields-To-Show-You-Are-Insured business sector.
- All schools will become academies and left to the tender mercies of the open market. Want a decent education but your school is shite? Fuck You!
- Local councils will be abolished as there will be no need of them anymore. Local democracy? Fuck You!
- The environment? Well it's buggered anyway so we might as well continue as we are.
- Home going to flood? Crops dyeing? Why don't you go to your 3rd home in the Alps? What? You don't have a domicile in Switzerland? Fuck You!
- Fracking will be speeded up and protestors will have their homes demolished in search of potential gas fields.
* Worried about personal privacy? Fuck You! What have you got to hide? Are you a terrorist peado?
** This will get rid of all those Johnny Foreigners and give a massive boost to the ancestry research community.
*** Special Terrorist Assessment, Surveillance and Intelligence
Bloody work!
Been really busy a t work for the last few weeks - November is usually a bit quieter but not this year.
Been busy outside too. We saw Klopp win away in Russia. We missed Halloween as we went to the pub and watched us stuff Chelski/RWC Final we went back, tryed on some outfits, lay down on the bed and woke up 2 hours later. We were going to watch the fireworks but it pissed it down so we stayed in the pub instead.
Cheski lost again. Heather NOT happy at all (even told us to fuck off when asked who she wanted as new manager). Then they lost again when he was banned from the stadium.
New John Lewis ad came out. Immediately parodied. Not sure what the old guy did that was so bad he was sent there. Maybe he's Hitler. Moon Hitler. Also why did she send a magic telescope not, say, an escape vehicle? Or food? Oh, it's because he's a peado moon hitler.
Klopp finally lost a game (against bogey team Palace). Law of averages said could't remain unbeaten for ever.
Pakistan won the test series 2-0 after another monumental batting collapse by England.
Still lots of suicides looking for somewhere to happen: lots of cyclists with no lights. One with no lights undertaking a car that was turning left onto Lady Margaret Road (luckily was spotted in time).
In politics May proved she didn't have a scooby about technology when she published the Snoopers Charter 2.0 (like version 1.0 but with extra stupidity added). WhatsApp, iMessage etc now will be banned & ISP's will have to charge much more for access as have to store terraflops of data for every user for a year.
And that's not the really stupid stuff!
Geaoge Osborne got beaten by the Lords over his iniquitous tax removal plans and Cameron was made to look even shiftier & more evasive than normal by Corbyn asking him 6 times whether hardworking families would lose money. Obviously Cameron couldn't answer as he'd be forced to admit that they would. Some £1300 each.
Sonny Bill Willimason gave his medal to a kid rugby tackled by a security cunt. RWC gave him a new one to replace it.
Been busy outside too. We saw Klopp win away in Russia. We missed Halloween as we went to the pub and watched us stuff Chelski/RWC Final we went back, tryed on some outfits, lay down on the bed and woke up 2 hours later. We were going to watch the fireworks but it pissed it down so we stayed in the pub instead.
Cheski lost again. Heather NOT happy at all (even told us to fuck off when asked who she wanted as new manager). Then they lost again when he was banned from the stadium.
New John Lewis ad came out. Immediately parodied. Not sure what the old guy did that was so bad he was sent there. Maybe he's Hitler. Moon Hitler. Also why did she send a magic telescope not, say, an escape vehicle? Or food? Oh, it's because he's a peado moon hitler.
Klopp finally lost a game (against bogey team Palace). Law of averages said could't remain unbeaten for ever.
Pakistan won the test series 2-0 after another monumental batting collapse by England.
Still lots of suicides looking for somewhere to happen: lots of cyclists with no lights. One with no lights undertaking a car that was turning left onto Lady Margaret Road (luckily was spotted in time).
In politics May proved she didn't have a scooby about technology when she published the Snoopers Charter 2.0 (like version 1.0 but with extra stupidity added). WhatsApp, iMessage etc now will be banned & ISP's will have to charge much more for access as have to store terraflops of data for every user for a year.
And that's not the really stupid stuff!
Geaoge Osborne got beaten by the Lords over his iniquitous tax removal plans and Cameron was made to look even shiftier & more evasive than normal by Corbyn asking him 6 times whether hardworking families would lose money. Obviously Cameron couldn't answer as he'd be forced to admit that they would. Some £1300 each.
Sonny Bill Willimason gave his medal to a kid rugby tackled by a security cunt. RWC gave him a new one to replace it.
Monday, 2 November 2015
Saturday 31/10/15 .... WE WIN!
Up early and into town for some shopping then over to the Isaac for the game.
Heather got in a bit late and was cheering loudly when Chelski scored after 4 minutes. I congratulated her on getting their goal early doors. JK told the players to keep their heads up and stick to the plan.
We equalised (wee Phil) deep into stoppage time (had to remind H that 2 minutes means a minimum rather than an absolute). We scored again on 74 minutes (Phil again) and added a 3rd 9 minutes later (Benteke). In truth we were the better team all over the park and after the 1st goal sensed we Chelsea were there for the taking.
Heather was in tears - 6th defeat in 11 games.
The Special Once accused the ref of bottling sending off Lieva (he was right) but seemed to have conveniently forgotten about a handball by Terry just outside the area and the animal Costa kicking out at Skrtl. Again.
We were shouting & cheering and the thought that this victory might push the classless cunt towards the dole queue made the result all the sweeter.
Whatever Maureen says, his team were well beaten:
He certainly seems to have gone a bit barmy: after the game he gave a bizarre interview where he replied "I have nothing to say." at least 6 times. Presumably he doesn't want another fine from the FA.
Grauniad match report: http://bit.ly/1M6tX7d
Bizzarro interview: http://bit.ly/1NkJS6a
After the footy we watched the RWC final. A bloody good match and the Wallabies came close but, ultimately, couldn't live with the All Blacks and Dan Carter in particular.
Bst story was when a kid tried to get to the team on their victory lap. Some scumbag security gaurd rugby tackled the child (hope he gets fired & never gets a job again). Sonny Bill Williamson picked him up, took him back to his folks and then, in an act of enormous generosity, gave him his winners medal. Youngster = made up and video went viral.
To mark this, World Rugby, gave him a new medal at the post-match dinner .
Heather got in a bit late and was cheering loudly when Chelski scored after 4 minutes. I congratulated her on getting their goal early doors. JK told the players to keep their heads up and stick to the plan.
We equalised (wee Phil) deep into stoppage time (had to remind H that 2 minutes means a minimum rather than an absolute). We scored again on 74 minutes (Phil again) and added a 3rd 9 minutes later (Benteke). In truth we were the better team all over the park and after the 1st goal sensed we Chelsea were there for the taking.
Heather was in tears - 6th defeat in 11 games.
The Special Once accused the ref of bottling sending off Lieva (he was right) but seemed to have conveniently forgotten about a handball by Terry just outside the area and the animal Costa kicking out at Skrtl. Again.
We were shouting & cheering and the thought that this victory might push the classless cunt towards the dole queue made the result all the sweeter.
Whatever Maureen says, his team were well beaten:
He certainly seems to have gone a bit barmy: after the game he gave a bizarre interview where he replied "I have nothing to say." at least 6 times. Presumably he doesn't want another fine from the FA.
Grauniad match report: http://bit.ly/1M6tX7d
Bizzarro interview: http://bit.ly/1NkJS6a
After the footy we watched the RWC final. A bloody good match and the Wallabies came close but, ultimately, couldn't live with the All Blacks and Dan Carter in particular.
Bst story was when a kid tried to get to the team on their victory lap. Some scumbag security gaurd rugby tackled the child (hope he gets fired & never gets a job again). Sonny Bill Williamson picked him up, took him back to his folks and then, in an act of enormous generosity, gave him his winners medal. Youngster = made up and video went viral.
To mark this, World Rugby, gave him a new medal at the post-match dinner .
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