We Are Team Rubber

Last night Team Rubber paid a visit to a Bristolian driving range, to check for golfing geniuses within the company. It emerged that everyone in Team Rubber was naturally talented at smacking plastic balls with rods of metal. My natural talent was shining so brightly last night that it brought tears to the eyes of onlookers. One fellow golfer said that during my performance a halo started appearing 12 inches over my head, and the world slowed down to a crawl accompanied by Dvorak’s New World Symphony. No, actually that’s a complete lie. I was appalling.

This book contains some really interesting anecdotes…but that’s about it. The quote “one of the smartest books of all time”, leaves me seriously pondering the reading list of the Fortune reporter who wrote that quote. Contains lots of evidence proving that people who claim they are geniuses, are actually victims of random good luck. Which is great for contradicting big business men, but never does the book speculate on the “randomness” itself…not even one mention or description of providence….perhaps I’m looking for a spiritually enlightening book, not one on business and economics.

Please read this someone, and prove me wrong.

He’s called Ian and claims to be the most majestic thing out of Maidenhead, shortly after Carol Voderman - who apparently used to live there.

Team Rubber ice skating at Bristol Zoo

Great looking people make great work. Its an honest fact; Ken Dodd and Anne Widicombe are living proof.

Whilst opening a new mouse, i was delighted to find it came with a free Jelly mould. After following the instructions on the back of the mouse packet, i was informed this “wireless jelly mouse has extra sensitive tracking, egonomic personal soft moulding technology and gives the user instant office cred.”

So far, the Rubber Jelly Mouse has been refrained from actual use and has been on an office tour. Posing as a modern art installation, it has visited Developer Island, The Kirk Hullis Sales Room and Project Manager Island.

From Monday the 1st of October, the mouse will be put into its industrial placement - gliding across the desk of its Father (me).

Team Rubber were out and about at Bristol Open Coffee last night. Conversations included:

• OK Cool’s neat Facebook Music Wall app. Made me think about how we (Team Rubber) don’t build quick businesses to flip on a wave. We’re focussed on long-term value, but it’s great to see other people working hard to catch a trend, it’s an intelligent way to do business
• UWE’s upcoming web design day (student-organised - good effort guys)
• Python and other programming animals. Curly braces - are they needed if you’re indenting code anyway?
• The Bristol Project: how do we build at least one web startup to a significant exit within 3 years?
• Online social networks: have we evolved the manners and etiquette to suit?
• Mobile apps & services
• Heidigger, phenomenonology, and the relation between action and language for AI
• Horse-riding makes you hurt in previously unknown muscle groups
• Web 1 (big) business cards (like mine) versus web 2 (moo) business cards (like everyone else - except Dan Dixon whose biz cards are sized to be monstrous and amusing)
• Barcamp upcoming in Bristol

Next open coffee will be in about a month - listing will be on Simon’s site.