[olug] (OT) Any good April Fools jokes planned?

Kevin sharpestmarble at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 19:20:38 UTC 2010


Whew. For a brief moment there I was worried, even though we're
talking about April Fools.

I'm already aware of how much I depend on google.

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 14:14, adam davis <radamdavis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes one. Google files for bankruptcy protection.
>
> </Adam>
>
>
>
> In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of
>
> people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
>
> --- On Tue, 3/30/10, Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [olug] (OT) Any good April Fools jokes planned?
> To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
> Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 2:12 PM
>
> Depends on the monitor driver. I used to have an XP laptop that would
> gladly put the "bottom" of the screen at any of the four edges. A
> former coworker was in the room I was in and we were all watching over
> another coworker's shoulder when he decided to take my mouse and try
> to take advantage of the rotation. I was watching him while he did so,
> and when I realized what he was going to do, I instinctively hit ESC a
> few times to get me back to the desktop. :) If I hadn't done that, I
> might have let him go ahead with it, then hit Ctrl-Alt-UP to restore
> it. :)
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 13:58, Todd Wittenmeier <magitoddw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> it's alot of work but, turning monitors upside down and taking a screen shot
>> of the desktop and hiding all the icons is an old favorite.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Jordan Fox <vmifox at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The BSOD screensaver is pretty funny.  I know some IT people who
>>> thought there was a problem with one of the computers in the lab and
>>> they were going to have to rebuild it... until I told them it was just
>>> a screensaver.  Wasn't a joke, but it was still pretty funny - old IT
>>> guys left, new one's came in... no one knew it was a screensaver
>>> except me.
>>>
>>> Jordan
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:45 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > If you do administer Windows workstations, push out the BSOD screensaver.
>>> >
>>> > I used to have a German keyboard at my last job, and I loved hooking
>>> > it up to random people's computers.
>>> >
>>> > -- T. J.
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>>> >> Re-install Windows ME on their workstations?
>>> >>
>>> >> Dan
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:10, Kevin D. Snodgrass <
>>> kdsnodgrass at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> Any body going to upside-down-ternet their (l)users Thurs?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Any other good tricks to play on (l)users?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Kevin D. Snodgrass
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
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>> -Todd
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