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Some people use QWERTY, some Dvorak, but I use TVQUIZ

BP — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:22:13 +0000

Are you looking for something silly and not too sinister to pull on a coworker who takes a week’s vacation on the beach while you are stuck in the office dealing with customers having issues with the vacationer’s product? And did I mention the week in question is one of the busiest weeks of the year for our company?

Here’s what I did to his keyboard:

He had to rearrange a few of the keys to make it workable again, as this Dell keyboard has different shapes of the keycaps for the different rows of the keyboard. This took me about 10 minutes, and was much cheaper and quicker than wrapping everything in his office in aluminum foil.

A whole year of more randomer-ness

BP — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:55:19 +0000

Today is the 1 year anniversary of a snippet of our company’s code being featured on The Daily WTF web site. Here is a direct link to the article so you too can bask in the goodness of real randomicity:

More Randomer

So I bought cupcakes for our dev team and decided to hack one of the cupcakes:

By the way, the developer that created the code in question is no longer at the company.

Terminator Salvation movie night

BP — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:13:04 +0000

We went out after work today to take in the newest installment of the Terminator saga, Terminator Salvation. The movie itself was somewhat disappointing, but as a team building exercise, the camaraderie was worth the effort.

I have a theory about movies. The ability for a movie to interest viewers with plot and conflict is inversely proportional to the amount of special effects. Terminator Salvation does nothing to refute my postulate.