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PiratizerMilk Carton Fail
This was on a milk carton at work:
Besides the irony of the 'squirral' and 'racooon' typos on a school lunch milk carton, there's also that weird sentence about "a well-managed forest". Is this propaganda from the logging industry? WTF?
Rubik's Cubicle
More vacation pictures are still on the way, but this was too good to pass up.
At work there is a tradition of playing a prank with somebody's office when they go on vacation. So it wasn't a total surprise that when I got back to work, I discovered that my co-workers had transformed my office into a "Rubik's Cubicle":
It's quite an elaborate construction job, with 4 double-sided walls and a "door" to go in and out.
Even the desk is covered in hundreds of stickers to make Rubik's Cube-like patterns. I'm sure they will be lots of fun to peel off..
Bad Sign
Hmm, is it a bad sign if you're at a restaurant and the pen they give you to sign the check is from a local pest control company?
Confusing UPS Notice
Today I found this confusing UPS notice on my door. My guess is that there's a new UPS employee since the handwriting is different than normal.
My package was apparently delivered to the apartment office, though UPS will also try to deliver it again tomorrow. An in-person signature will be required on delivery, unless it's not, of course.
Bathroom Norman Door
At work one of the bathroom stalls' latch broke, so they put on a new latch. They naturally put it on backwards, so now the door opens outward instead of inward:
There's no way to pull the door open, so you have to reach up and grab the top of the door. It's quite the Norman Door now, because the handle's still on the inside, where you have to push to get it open:
Worst of all, it's the handicap stall:
For some reason people were giving me funny looks when I was taking these pictures inside the bathroom.
Leech Revenge
In general it's not a good idea to hotlink other people's images on your web site. There are all the standard reasons: the ethical dilemmas of stealing somebody else's bandwidth, the copyright violations, etc.. There's also the completely practical reason: the danger that they might get mad and swap the image out from under you and make you look like a fool.
For example, consider the following MySpace user. He's apparently interested in AC/DC, Metallica, and stealing pictures of other people's laptops:
Today, with incredibly poor timing, he apparently decided to come out of the closet as one of those crazy Ron Paul supporters:
Still Married
When I got my new car a couple of years ago I didn't get rid of my old car right away, so I had to add the new one on to my existing car insurance policy. A couple weeks later I went to remove my old car from the policy, but the insurance salesperson said that there was "something wrong with the computer," because my new premium would be much higher after taking off the second car.
After I waited on hold for a while, she came back on and said she had found the problem: "With two cars, you're getting the married rate, but if you go down to only one car on your policy, then you're a single male so you would get a much higher rate." I found that sort of amusing, and decided not to take the car off of my policy. Ever since then, I've been insuring two cars.
Last week I turned 25, so today I went to the office to see if I could get a lower car insurance rate. Supposedly 25 is the "magical" age when you suddenly become much less likely to get in a car accident.
I inquired about removing my old car from the policy, but again discovered that this would increase my rate. This time I was able to get some specific numbers:
Cost to insure '84 Buick + '06 GTI: $277 + $560 = $837
Cost to insure just '06 GTI: $945
It's interesting to see that insuring a 2006 GTI costs 68% more if you're single than if you're "married." Apparently getting married is yet another way to instantly transform yourself into someone much less likely to get into an accident. The best part is that you don't even have to bother with the hassle of a wife: you just have to buy another car.
Now I'm wondering: could I reduce my insurance costs even further by adding a third car? I suspect not: clearly if I had three cars then I must have had a kid, and we all know how dangerous kids are..
Yoda Head
My Yoda pez-dispenser at work got into a fight with a Darth Vader dispenser. Unfortunately he lost..
Ghost
At work a co-worker got upgraded to a window office across the hall from me, so we naturally had to rig up an office-warming surprise for him.
The shut door looks innocent enough..
.. until you open it and a ghost pops up to scare you!
The idea was that opening the door quickly would cause the Angel of Death to pop up from the shadows and startle the victim. The bright yellow network cable probably looked suspicious as the door was opening up, but we had to make do with the supplies in the office.
Unfortunately, the prank was not a huge success and didn't really scare anybody, as you can see in the YouTube video below. We tried it out on various other co-workers and got similarly underwhelming reactions.
Prime spam
Further proof that I am weird: I saw that Akismet has caught 5,387 spam comments on this blog and thought, "Ooh, a prime number!".
OS Upgrade
That's it - I give up. I'm upgrading to Windows XP. It should be great too, given that it will apparently be twice as fast as Vista. They can't say I didn't try..
Disappointed
At work I made an apparently too-cryptic joking reference to the Total Information Awareness Program and John Poindexter, but nobody understood it.
I was quite disappointed - I had figured that most people would get it. I'm sure if it had been a reference to American Idol or Survivor more people would have understood it.. So sad.
Mr. Lightswitch
Mr. Lightswitch is angry because he couldn't get a parking spot today:
I was hoping that the switch part would look like a mouth, but I don't think it really works.
Eyeball Security Camera
As many people noted, the Eyeball Security System is very vulnerable to attack since it can easily be turned off or unplugged, rendering it useless. Little did they know, that was all part of the plan!
You see, the actual tripwire alarm is just a decoy, and is just one part of the whole system. Most people see only the alarm and completely miss the webcam conveniently positioned to catch them in the act of stealing the eyeballs or trying to disable the alarm:
The webcam caught many people red-handed, though eventually its presence was discovered and disclosed to other would-be thieves.
Here's a YouTube video of the interesting bits of the security camera footage:
Experiment
Finally an answer to the question I know you've all been wondering about, namely, "What happens if you spill V8 vegetable juice on some dinner mints on your office desk and leave it for a day?"
Many people proposed various hypotheses:
- It will grow moldy
- It will smell really bad
- A trail of ants will come and eat it
- It will dry up and look crusty
The results:
Interestingly, most of the hypotheses were wrong. It doesn't smell bad, it's not growing mold, there are no ants, and it's more leathery than crusty, though it did dry up pretty quickly.
We also can observe that the red and white dinner mints dissolved more than the green and yellow dinner mints.
On the social side of things, I was expecting indifference and maybe even some amusement about the experiment. Instead, I was faced with a surprising amount of hostility and even disdain about it. On the other hand, one person actually praised it as a "work of art".
All in all, another victory for the scientific method.
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