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Eyeball Thief

Ever since finding his new home in the Crypt hallway, my Wallmonster has been repeatedly defaced, requiring numerous repairs. Now, I am sad to announce, one of his eyeballs has been completely stolen.

It's time for a Wanted poster to help catch the thief.

Watch problem solved

Needlenose pliers: is there anything they can't do?

Unscrewing a watch

Turning on a light

Eating a cookie

Playing XBox 360

Washing the car

Bananacode

Prize for the first person who gets it

Jeopardy Typo

In yet another sign of the impending apocalypse, today there is a typo in my Jeopardy calendar.

How to open a Windows Vista or Office 2007 box

I nearly cut my hand while opening my copy of Office, and my brother just sent me a string of angry emails after banging on his Vista box for 5 minutes trying to get it open. So to prevent further pain, I present this guide about how to open your Windows or Office box.

First, rip off all the little plastic seals from the sides (This step updated 4/2/07 with a picture sent in by Erin (thanks!)):

Next, you need to cut the circular sticker across the top using your trusty Swiss Army knife. Note: don't try ripping this sticker off, or else it will probably rip the 'certificate of authenticity' off the box as well. Pic:

You might have to cut the sticker on both the front and the back if it covers both sides.

At this point you might be tempted to push in the tab things on the side of the box and pull it open:

Don't do this, however, because these tab things are actually supposed to hold the box shut, so if you grab them you prevent the box opening at all. The trick is to leave the tabs alone and find the little recessed grip thing on the top of the box and pull on it:

The center of the box slides outward radially, so you actually have to pull up on it, which might not be what you expect. Once you do that the box pops open:

Alternatively, you could also read the little visual diagram of how to do this that's on the first little plastic thing you rip off, but that would be too easy .

Wall Monster

At work we moved offices recently, and outside my new office is a fire extinguisher box. It looked pretty bland, so I spiced it up by adding some eyes and a mouth to it. After that it was too tempting not to leave it as it was, so each day I am adding a new body part to it:

Today, though, the piece I am adding is a teardrop, because Mr. Wallmonster is sad that his relationship with a girl-wallmonster that he was dating for a couple months didn't work out . He's not mad, just kinda sad. Any time you lose something there's a little grief. I know he'll get over it soon enough and he'll be OK. There are plenty more girl-wallmonsters out there in the hallways...