Brian and Karl model geeky fashion items
Our wonderful hosting providers, the one-and-only Rackspace, famed for their enthusiastic fanatical support and bone crunching handshakes when you say ‘hi’ at trade shows, sent the Yucca tech chaps these rather cool Ponchos and old skool hankies.
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Unique tastes in live music revealed
The Yucca office downed tools yesterday afternoon for some bucks fizz and mini cakes. Ben was 30 yesterday and we all clubbed together to buy him a present.
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Jaw droppingly stunning
I nearly booked a flight to Reykjavík last summer to see these guys. They were made famous by the BBC with its extensive playtime in the series Blue Planet and as part of the soundtrack on Life Aquatic. But, Sigur Ros are soooo much more than TV ad/soundtrack material.
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Karl gets jumped by a Yucca
Karl survives a mid-afternoon assault by a Yucca plant yesterday.
Luckily, his cake was in the other hand.
We move offices. Again.
Last Friday saw yet another office move for us all. Anyone who recently visited our previous offices will know it was getting a little bit cosy.
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Will Ben (the Stealth) Martin retain his title?
4 contestants.
24 pies.
1 heavyweight title at stake.
Read more and watch the Youtube video...
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4 contestants, 4 minutes and 250g of sugar each
A demonstration on how to eat your Battenburg cake.
Superstitious horticultural shenanigans
It was with shock, when I walked into our accounts room today, that I spotted the 'founding Yucca tree' (the tree after which the company is named) had been trimmed.
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A marzipan-wrapped, checker-board challenge
This coming Friday sees four brave people from Yucca answer one burning question: how quickly it is possible to eat one large battenberg cake, with only a cup of tea to help it slip down?
£20 goes to the winner, but the glory lasts forever.
Ladies and gentlemen, your bets please:
Ed: EVENS
Arwyn: 7/1
Richie: 10/1
Ben: 3/2
The lovely Janet and Graham from Google are visiting us for the day and have kindly agreed to judge the contest.
Office lock issues and ladder-based shenanigans.
When locked out of our office, our local extremely handy-man Dave came to our rescue by deftly shooting up the ladder only to suffer a foot-related issue at the top which is illustrated in the above animation.
Comedy aside, he's an absolute legend and is currently fitting our much more functional door with a brand new lock.
Cheers Dave.
