July 20th, 2004
Well, my co-worker, fellow MeFite, and fellow blogger xmutex (aka submute), decided to go on vacation. So my co-workers and I decided to take this opportunity to play a little practical joke on him. You can see the results below. I'd say it took the three of us less than 10 man-hours total to do it. I have no idea how long it will take him to un-do it. Welcome back, xmutex!

The view with the best overall perspective of the action. The envelope to the left of the keyboard is his paystub.

We managed to open his locked bookshelf (tip: never leave the key in the drawer) and foil everything inside. The patches of foil on the left bookshelf are covering stickers, etc. On the desk is the rare and ellusive iMac iFoil.

Closeup of the iFoil. You can see where we had to cheat and use some tape. Note the foiling on all the wires.

Closeup of the phone.

Mug filled with pens, my personal favorite handiwork.

Here you can see that we didn't actually foil everything below the desktop. We spent enough time foiling above.

Yes, he really does have 2 flat-panel monitors. We felt this justified our action.

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