Dear readers,

Last time I checked my bank statement, it was dismal. I am sure I am not the only one who have noticed the incessant increase in basic commodity prices, such as gummy bears and potato chips. With my favorite publications, Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, announcing on a daily basis the worthless of the dollar and other inflationary pressures we are facing, it’s hard not to panic and look around for ways to store up on some extra dough. The first thing I would suggest is going to your employer for a raise. Below is something I came across recently that does a great job of asking for a raise, and should it be futile, it could always be passed off as a joke.

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Dear Bo$$

In thi$ life, we all need $ome thing mo$t de$perately. I think you $hould be under$tanding the need$ of u$. We are worker$ who have given $o much $upport including $weat and $ervice to your company ..

I am $ure you will gue$$ what I meant and re$pond $oon

Your$ $incerely,

( insert your real name)

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And here is something for the boss, should you need a similar way of responding to such pestilent request should the employee be undeserving of such consideration.

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Dear ( name of employee),

I kNOw you have been working very hard. NOw a days, NOthing much has changed. You must have NOticed that our company is NOt doing NOticably well . NOw the newspapers are saying the world’s leading ecoNOmists are NOt sure if the United States may go into a NOther recession. After the NOvember presidential elections things may turn bad . I have NOthing more to add NOw. You kNOw what I mean .

Your Boss.

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Laugh Your Head Off Monday
Almost all of us office workers have Case of the Mondays. On this day, we plan to provide a little bit more humor than usual, to go with whatever else energy infused supplements you do take on Mondays to jolt yourself into action.

Eye-opening Tuesday
We scourge the world in search of the useful, the weird, and the interesting so we can get your eyes to pop, just a little. Read the rest of this entry »

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I <3 Geek Art!

Geek Art is Art where science, technology, or video games were the primary source of inspiration (please do not quote me on that definition). Anyone who was at the MoMA, and saw Design and the Elastic Mind, knows that Geek Art is slowly penetrating the mass and evolving in the most creative ways.

Coming back to the subject of this post - post-its Note Art fits right in the Geek Art category. There is a lot of images floating out there on this subject matter. One emerging trend, I noticed recently, involves the use of iconic video games characters from the 8-bit and Atari days.

See Megaman’s creation step per step here

The connexion between Pixel Art and post-its Art should be made. Both genre use different mediums, but both use the common unit “the pixel”. Through ordered association of the pixels, the subject matter is revealed. Similar to many of you, I grew up in an analogue era, where video games were not anti-aliased or rendered but pixelated.

Post-its Art impacts the audience through the subject matter and the scale of the work. These art piece takes a lot of time, patience and post-its to produce. In the case of the Donkey Kong piece, engineering students over at the University of California Santa Cruz took time out of their busy academic life to create a larger-than-life work, where each pixel is matched by a Post-it Note.

The Donkey Kong installation took the team of ten people about five hours to complete, and used over 6,400 colored Post-it Notes (although they had to buy over 14,000 of the little sticky buggers to get all the colors they needed.)

This underground art trend was eventually picked up by marketing agencies in their own efforts to capitalize on such unique and powerful artform. For Instance, Nintendo marketing agency used post-its to create giant versions of Nintendo’s All Stars classic gaming iconic characters such as Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, etc.

Each individual post-its could be removed by passersby, revealing a small advertisement for the Wii’s virtual console. (coutesy of technabob.com)

I am only touching some basics here in regard to post-its Geek Art, I am sure there is a lot more to be said. If you like this piece, you should check out one of our earlier post on post-its Art.

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Hi guys, we have the office supply hacks you will ever need. The next 5 ideas will truly turn your mundane office supplies into desirable objects that everyone of your coworkers will desire and envy. You will be the talk of the office. If you do become unprecedentedly popular, please do drop us a line, so we, the awesome content-generators at Shoplet.com, know that we didn’t toss and turn last night for naught!

#5 Geek Girlz Hair Tie

Geekiness is the new hotness! We all know you have extra wires in your closet. So maybe it is time to air out your closet. Instead of throwing those unsightly computer peripherals out, wear it proudly this year, because we hear the geeky goddess hairstyle is the new MUST-DO for summer.

#4 Elastic Hold-It-All

Completely original. This simple hack will turn your cubicle into the MOMA of office supplies. All you need is 2 push pins, with an elastic band of your choice in between. And viola, you now have an extremely versatile device that will hold almost anything from pictures, to notes, to pens, to decorative objects, to even my lunch!

A Pencil Eraser

Fold a rubber band in half a few times and use it to erase pencil markings.  It works surprisingly well.

A Wallet Replacement

Is you wallet showing Get rid of it.  Instead, wrap your cash around your ID and credit card and then wrap a rubber band around the outside of the cash.

#3 Clipboard Picture Frame

With a little bit of time and effort. You could turn the ugliest particle clip-board lying around into the best looking photo frame of your choice! This should also be relatively inexpensive compared to any store bought photo frame.

#2 Ultimate Post-Its Holder

This is a ruler turned post-its holder, that is probably more applicable to certain offices than others. This is for all the cubicles that have cloth material as dividers. Though this type of material may be good at muffling sounds, and pinning thumb tacks in, the material is really bad at holding anything with a sticky surface. Thus, thanks to my ingenious co-worker, he devised this ruler hanging by a thumb-tack to be a hold all for post-its! Ingenious!

#1 Clear Tape Page Turner

Last, but not least. One of my favorite office supply hacks because it is so effortless to make, but so useful, especially when I have to go through massive amount of papers. For this simple office hack, all you need is tape. Simply reverse tape your index finger. Make sure the sticky side face outside. Rub the sticky part on paper towel, or cloth material a bit, so it picks up some lint and looses some stickiness. Now you have the perfect page turner, with enough stickiness to help you glide through pages.

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It’s Monday again. The weekend just went by slightly too fast. Just in case most of you guys didn’t catch enough sleep this weekend, doing the things you guys do do so well outside of the office. Here are 5 things I came across recently that would really save my derrière when caught snoozing at the desk.

5. “They told me at the Blood Bank this would happen.”

Medical excuses goes a long way, especially with your boss.

4. “Oh, Hi, I was trying to pick up my contact lens without my hands.”

Every contact wearing office worker should appreciate and empathize with this one.

3. “Whew! Guess I left the top off the Whiteout. You probably got here just in time.”

Whiteouts are still dangerously toxic, no?

2. “Did you ever notice sound coming out of these keyboards when you put your ear down real close?”

Yes, there are creatures hiding inside your keyboard, if you listen closely, you can hear them yelp. Highly recommended.

1. “This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!”

My personal favorite! It is, isn’t it??

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