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I love Fridays – the weekend is coming, the office has a nice excited buzz and everyone is generally in a good mood. It’s also the day I get to goof off on the net for a bit and find cool stuff for this post. In today’s GatorFriday we have aliens, Microsoft and a rabbit. Sounds like a winning combination to me

District 9 Full Trailer from Zac Oldenburg on Vimeo.

Patron: Waiter!

Waiter: Hi, my name is Bill, and I’ll be your Support Waiter. What seems to be the problem?

Patron: There’s a fly in my soup!

Waiter: Try again, maybe the fly won’t be there this time.

Patron: No, it’s still there.

Waiter: Maybe it’s the way you’re using the soup; try eating it with a fork instead.

Patron: Even when I use the fork, the fly is still there.

Waiter: Maybe the soup is incompatible with the bowl; what kind of bowl are you using?

Patron: A SOUP bowl!

Waiter: Hmmm, that should work. Maybe it’s a configuration problem; how was the bowl set up?

Patron: You brought it to me on a saucer; what has that to do with the fly in my soup?!

Waiter: Can you remember everything you did before you noticed the fly in your soup?

Patron: I sat down and ordered the Soup of the Day!

Waiter: Have you considered upgrading to the latest Soup of the Day?

Patron: You have more than one Soup of the Day each day??

Waiter: Yes, the Soup of the Day is changed every hour.

Patron: Well, what is the Soup of the Day now?

Waiter: The current Soup of the Day is tomato.

Patron: Fine. Bring me the tomato soup, and the check. I’m running late now.

Waiter leaves and returns with another bowl of soup and the check.

Waiter: Here you are, Sir. The soup and your check.

Patron: This is potato soup.

Waiter: Yes, the tomato soup wasn’t ready yet.

Patron: Well, I’m so hungry now, I’ll eat anything.

Waiter leaves.

Patron: Waiter! There’s a gnat in my soup!

The check:
Soup of the Day …………………………….. $5.00
Upgrade to newer Soup of the Day ……………… $2.50

Access to support …………………………… $1.00

Fridays are fun, or at least they should be.  I asked each of the Gators to send me something fun for today, so here are the Afrigator staff picks! We’re a pretty fun bunch and we know that you are too.

(If you don’t know who the Gators are, have a look here and you can find out a bit more about us).

First up is Justin’s IQ test for business people:

Each of the Gators also sent me an image that they thought was funny or cool (except Mumz – he’s so high tech his picture moves).

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Needless to say, Stii likes coffee

Lester is clearly a cat person

This video got Mamello’s motor revving (I can see why)!

I hope that something on this page made you smile and possibly even giggle a little. If you find something that you think will brighten up someone’s Friday, find us on GatorPeeps and tag your funny with #GatorFriday

Till next time, keep on blogging

Lester and the Afrigator Team

Hi there and Happy Friday

Here at the GatorPen, we’ve been a very busy bunch lately. And it’s our three babies that have been keeping us awake at night, up early in the morning and scratching our heads trying to figure out what’s wrong with them. We figured that now would be a great opportunity to introduce the Afrigator team to all the gators out in Africa (and the rest of the world). But first, let me introduce you to our babies..

Afrigator

The oldest of three, Afrigator has grown from a tiny gator to the biggest social media aggregator in Africa. What that fancy title means is that we collect (or aggregate) blogs, videos, images, tweets and peeps from all over Africa and put it all in one easy to use location. With close to 10,000 members, we must be doing something right!

Adgator

Adgator is the awkward middle child but often needs to act like big sister and give Afrigator pocket money. Adgator is a blog advertising network helping bloggers to make money from their blogs. Right now Adgator is grounded and can only play in South Africa, but she’ll be let out to the rest of Africa soon.

GatorPeeps

The pip squeak in the family, GatorPeeps is Africa’s first micro blogging platform. A real chatterbox, GatorPeeps allows all Afrigator users to communicate, share ideas and thoughts and just generally just get along. A very personable Gator, Peeps is easy to use, especially if you already have an Afrigator account.

Right, now that you know the family, let’s meet the team

Who lives in the Gator Pen?

Justin (@justinhartman)

Justin (along with Mike Stopforth and Mark Forrester) started Afrigator back in 2007. He’s a real man’s geek who plays cricket, loves football and is crazy about his two little boys Ben and Luke. As the MD, Justin is also the bean counter in the bunch and he makes sure that we have enough cash for coffee and cool new toys (or that we know who to hustle when the java runs low).

Stii (@stii)

It’s said that Stii is part human, part percolator and part mobile phone. Whatever the case, Stii is the main gator when it comes to making gator tick technologically. He joined just after Afrigator was formed and hasn’t left since. If something’s not working on Afrigator, Stii’s the guy who’s going to get it working again. He also comes up with cool new things to add every day. Well almost every day.

Lester (@lesterhein)

The CommuniGator of the office, Lester is responsible for blog posts, PR, mushy journalist stuff and anything else that sounds vaguely official coming from Afrigator. He’s also the product and support manager (or babysitter) for the three Gator kids and does cool help videos like this. So, if you need any help, drop him a mail to support@afrigator.com and he’ll get it sorted quick as a flash ( warning – we sometimes experience very long flashes here at the GatorPen).

Mamello (@mamello)

At the office we call him Mum’z The Money Man. Okay, not really, but as Sales manager for Afrigator and Adgator, he’s responsible for making sure we can afford the coffee mentioned earlier. He’s also the funniest dude in the office, which makes sense since he’s a passionate comedian in his (very limited) spare time.

Adele (@adelezev)

The newest addition to the team, Adele works with Stii on the techie side of things. Her desk is like a mad scientist’s lab brimming with new ideas for Afrigator that we can’t wait to tell you about once they’re built. She’s bubbly, friendly and probably likes long walks on the beach, though we haven’t asked.

Well, now that you know the family and the team a little better, I hope that we’ll be hearing from YOU a bit more.

Till next, keep on blogging!
The Afrigator Team

P.S – don’t forget to check out the daily features on the Afrigator blog.

This morning, at 07:08, Kate Ashleigh Stopforth was born. Team Afrigator is extremely proud of our newest addition to the Gator Mob and we’d like to extend our congratulations to Mike, Wendy and Ethan on the birth of their new baby girl.

Pic stolen from Mike’s blog.

Yesterday was training day. On a whim, Justin and I decided that it would be kinda cool in an urban adventure sort of way to take a train to get around for a bit, instead of the usual bleep-bleep vroom driving experience. So, off we trundled to Cape Town station to grab a train before our meeting with the guys from YuppieChef.co.za.(post to follow)

Now I’d taken many a train in my student days, but Justin was having his carriage-cherry popped for the first time, so it was interesting to see what he thought.

The first thing I noticed at Cape Town station was the distinct lack of lighter skinned faces. By lighter skinned I don’t mean only mean “white”, the multi-coloured community didn’t have many numbers on the platforms either. This post isn’t meant to be a racial commentary, but i thought it was a interesting observation. Anyway, I digress…

So, off to the ticket counter we went and paid the R5.50 for our one way first class ticket to Harfield Road. Thinking about it now, I’m not sure there’s anything you can get for R5.50 anymore. Hell, even the cokes we bought for the trip cost R6.

On the whole, the trip wasn’t bad, not bad at all in fact. Train drivers clearly haven’t had their cries for ABS answered just yet – rather than lurching to a halt, the train just kind of bounced until its momentum dissipated. My advice – remain seated for the entire performance.

I think that I’ll give the northern line a try out next week some time to see how it stacks up against the south. Oh, and if you haven’t already seen them, you can see the pics from all our latest wanderings here.