Archive for the ‘Office Funtastic’ Category

Jan 27 2009

Keyboard_for_Blondes_pic

Now don’t be offended. As a blonde myself, I think I’m allowed to poke fun at my own kind.

This is the Keyboard for Blondes or Blonde Board for short. Besides the vibrant girly color, check out the key names:  No! (Esc Key), WARNING! size XXL letters (Caps lock), Yes I want it! (Enter), and many variations of “useless” keys. The Function keys are apparently completely useless since none of them held on to any description. Maybe this truly is a more efficient keyboard. You know immediately which keys to disregard when all you do is update your status on Facebook. I really did want to pat myself on the back when I noticed the “Very Smart Blonde Button.” I use that one all the time. Along with Oops! and the Eraser.

Make sure to check out their website, it’s hysterical.

https://www.keyboardforblondes.com

Some of the top ten reasons to have one include:

Parison Hilton doesn’t have one
Matches your lipstick
Excuse for a cute guy in the office to talk to you (really?)
Even better, Excuse for a cute girl in the office to talk to you! Not sure girls would think this keyboard was comical or cute if a boy had it. That would be beyond funny, kind of to the point of scary.

Tagline: When we got in touch with our inner blondes …It was fun! 

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Jan 23 2009

Ok so maybe it’s not the most impressive thing you’ve ever seen, but it could provide a 5 minute distraction at work. Open up your stapler so you are looking at the base.

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Turn your stapler over and press on the spring like button on the bottom. That should pop out the smiley face plate (did you ever notice that it looks like a smiley face?)

stapler2

Turn the face 180 degrees.

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Try it out. See how the staples bend outward instead of inward?

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[via Blogger Jacob Grier]

If you’re like me, you’ll think wow this is neat..kind of. Well it actually serves a purpose. This way of stapling is called pinning.

From a wikipedia article,

Pinning is used to temporarily bind documents or other items, often cloth or clothing, for sewing. In order to pin using a stapler, the anvil must be shifted so that the bends outwards instead of inwards. This method varies between staplers, as some anvils need to be simply pushed forward to allow pinning, while others must be rotated. Some staplers implement pinning by bending one leg of the staple inwards, while bending the other outwards. Some modern staplers, though, do not include support for pinning.

So I guess it has a purpose after all.

P.S. Note the last statement of the Wikipedia article. Some staplers don’t support pinning. While I have a classic Swingline Stapler, my coworker wasn’t so lucky.

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Jan 21 2009

Post-it is great, it is often turned into art by creative individuals, as well as pranks by the creative amusingly twisted individuals.

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Post-it Prank - Messy Version Post-it Prank - Classy Version Post-it Mural Post-it all over Jaguar Type-2
 

Post-it pranks are always performed by sticking post-its onto an object. If you want a small prank, you can cover a comparatively small object like a printer, someone’s mug or even a chair but of course with such a small object, your prank would not be very effective. Covering someone’s office would be a much better prank. You can do it in a sloppy way (pic 1) or a classy way (pic 2). You can also cover, not just a little piece, but an entire wall and create a mural (pic 3), but when it comes to the extreme, you would go and cover your boss’s Jaguar Type 2, that way he cannot just leave the mess in the office. He would have to deal with any resentment you may or may not have - undo the post-it in the garage or show it to the public.

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Jan 13 2009

The Office Jello Prank has been around. It has been forgotten, or even unheard of to some, until the show “The Office” brought it back in one of its episodes.

Here are some successful and rather interesting results:

A Speaker of a Phone in Jello The Entire Phone in Jello and a Taunting Note A Stapler in Jello - Classic A Keyboard and a Mouse in Jello

Here is a guide:

Tools:

5 boxes of Jello
1 Container
1 object (a stapler, a phone, a pen etc - anything without paper content, obviously)
a few pieces of string
a ruler that is longer or wider that the container

1. Tie a string around the object you want to “trapped” inside the jello and hang it onto the ruler like so. Make sure there is space between the ruler and the object.

2. place the object into the container. At this point the object should neither be touching the bottom and the side of the container nor the surface of the ruler. The object should only have contact with the string.

The above the steps is the heart of the trick and is use to achieve the “anti-gravity” effect inside the jello.

This rest of the trick is fairly simple.

3. Cook up the Jello gelatin and fill the container until the object is submerged.

4. put the container into the fridge until the is solidified.

5. cut of the strong tied around the object and remove it along with the ruler.

6. Flip the container and start shaking until the jello(and the object) is removed from. Use a plastic spatular if needed.

And voila! Pretty, isn’t it?■

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Jan 6 2009
Staplesless Stapler

You place a stapler over a pile of paper that needs to be stapled, and as soon as you press on the stapler, nothing comes out. While you were expecting to organize your document, you have to abort your plan because you just ran out of staples.

Introducing the Stapler that does not use staples. This invention has been around a quite sometime, but not a lot of people understand the magic behind this.

There a few models of stapleless staplers out in the market nowadays, but this model in particular punches a whole onto your stack of paper, it then folds and,unlike most models out there, nicely tucks the flap into the paper itself. Smart, huh? Although the trick is pretty nifty, it works only on a stack of 5 to 7 pieces of paper, but again, if you have a stack of uncountable amount of paper that you want to bind together, you might as well use a 3-ring binder or use a hot glue to make a book out of it, right? ■

A hole that is tucked in created by Stapleless Stapler - Front
A hole that is tucked in created by Stapleless Stapler - Back
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