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Shundra and Mama C ~ Thanks! I believe there is a frustrated writer trapped inside my body.
Now if I could release it, that would be the best diet ever, and I wouldn’t need Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig or NutriSystems.
We do have several other “strange and unusual” company policies. My boss believes in personal freedom and really only issues policies based upon the craziness of our office.
I think I’ve met my match. Robin, you, too can describe situations with amazing clarity. Brava!
And, I hope the new office policy is not fictitious — it sounds like your programmers need some ground rules set when it comes to the unusual use of beard trimmers.
C.
OMG, Robin. That’s soo funny. Who needs a video when you got words to go on. Your post made me think and imagine what’s going on.
LOL!!!
ha ha ha!
Well, Let me see if I can paint a verbal picture as the programmers fully expected to be able to take video, but never quite got the chance:
California ~ the end of a long HOT Friday in the middle of a record breaking summer. The is little relief in sight. Temperatures had soared to over 105* all week.
Four male computer programmers between the ages of 25 – 49 who had spent the week resolving a major crash of a proprietary program platform (and the back up machine failed also) that was being developed.
The victim chosen to help relieve stress and provide comedic relief: An innocent, black plastic battery operated beard trimmer, lying helpless on a desk. The desk is unoccupied, and the beard trimmer had been there for months. It is a mystery in and of itself as t whom the thing belongs to. The desk is stocked with an unopened tube of Super glue, scissors, paper clips and light weight card board.
Did I mention the 4 prgrammers had been surviving on diet coke, Taco Bell, Kool-Aid, coffee and bagels, and that on Friday afternoon a cooler of 36 canned alcoholic beverages was smuggled in?
Okay ~ you are probably starting to get the picture.
Basically you have four crazed lunatics who have not had a dose of reality in 4 or 5 days, the weather was hot, and they cooled off by drinking all of the alcoholic beverages; the programmers are stir crazy from frenetic prgramming all week.
They fashion wings out of the cardboard and attached them to the beard trimmer using super glue and paperclips. They put fresh batteries in the trimmer, and added paperclips to the “tail” section to off-set the metal skin guard near the razor head.
The second story roof top door is opened, and a target is spotted: An innocent bystander from a neighboring business in the same complex as our facility.
A conversation takes place. Well, lots of words are spoken, but I can not say it was conversation. The 4 programmers decide that it is time to do a test launch. They’ll make any adjustments necessary on the final flight.
More people have actually gathered downstairs to see what the noise on the roof is all about. There are about 18 people outside, its hot, the black asphalt seems to be melting under foot, and there are four not so sober over grown adolescent boys on the roof.
The beard trimmer comes alive ~ the buzzing seems super powerful to those on the roof. The crowd below starts to shake their heads and laugh in disbelief, as they realize what is about to happen.
The open palms of one of the programmers becomes the launch pad. The buzzing trimmer is placed upon it, and the count down begins: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2,1!
The buzzer is still sitting in the hands of the programmer. (DUH!) One of the other programmers gives it a light shove. It falls without hesitation towards the ground but is caught mid flight by the hands of one of the dorks (I mean programmers.)
It is placed again on the launch, and this time its given a firm “thwack” and sent airborn.
The programmers can not believe it!
There is no hover, there is no grace, there is no semblance of flight ~ it just crashes onto the pavement below, explodes into a few hundred pieces of plastic and wire and dies a most unglorious death.
There is no video. (I WISH there had been) There is however now a company policy about alcohol, prorammers, super glue and flight plans.
“Effective Immediately:
All programmers who wish to experiment with flight plans and creativity must do so with out the use of alcohol or company supplied office supplies including but not limited to super glue, paper clips and scissors.
All flight plans must be conducted off site and after hours and will not be condoned by the company.
The only flight plans we condone are those travel plans which include nationally recongnized air line carriers which operate out of real airports with real air traffic controllers.
There will be no further experimentation of flight from the launch deck of the second story.”
I would love to see a video of a beard trimmer flying off the second story balcony. I think you need to post that some time. Awesome!
Don, You always find the coolest things to share. I have to admit, I had to share it with everyone in my office.
I did not however share the diet coke and mentos with them….the freaks I work with already tried to make a beard trimmer fly off the second story balcony ~ I could just imagine giving them something that would actually go projectile on them …. Oh my!
Don, you should have saved the mento’s one for tomorrow since blogger published this one too soon.
So, what’s tomorrow’s post???
Uhm… no… I’m SOOOO not showing my kids the Diet Coke and Mentos video! They get themselves into enough trouble, without any help, thankyouverymuch!
And hey, as far as posting a day early… it’s Monday somewhere in the world, right?
I just showed the video to my girls, who thought it was “way cool”. I just hope I didn’t give them any ideas ::hiding all of the Post-It’s::
Don. DO you really do this at work? LOL Maybe I need to work there if its that fun. LOL
OK. Are these people that bored at work? LOL
Very interesting video. Very colorful. Don’t worry about posting it on the wrong day of the week. This is a great way to start off the work week just a day early.
SOZ MENT TO THAN NOT THAT
THATS BETTER THAT A FIREWORK DISPLAY
ROFL
Here’s the link Click here
Dang it! Don’t you hate it when you schedule a blog entry to be posted on a specific day and it comes too soon. This was supposed to appear on Monday (tomorrow)!
Oh well. I’m glad you like it. If you’ve ever seen the Coke and Mentos video, this video was created by the same guys.
Pretty darn creative if you ask me.
I LOVED IT!!! Way cool! I had to post it on my blog too.
(It also made me think of a really good Tawianese tv show I watched about a “Sticky Note Girl” called “Fated to Love You. Which your mom and sis-in-laws might really love to watch- it’s subtitled.)
That’s absolutely INSANE!
I think if we did crazy stuff like that at my former job, I might still be there!
How fun!
DON
I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU WORKED IN PR NOT PAPER,
PMSL