I walk into my office, get things in order, and decide to make my coffee.
My coffee is gone.
The full pound of Espresso beans brought back from Vienna.
Don’t fuck with my coffee, yo.
It was sitting next to my desk when I left work around 5:45pm yesterday, in a handled brown paper IGA grocery bag.
But it was gone this morning. Along with whatever else was in that bag, I can’t even remember now.
I check the dumpster next to the building, it’s not in there.
I call the FAMA Service Center, and get passed to the custodial day supervisor, who asks if I looked in the other dumpster. He said he’d leave a note for our building’s custodian. But I wasn’t taken very seriously.
This isn’t the first time we’ve had problems like this. Last year, a co-worker came in to find her organized stacks of documents were gone. Luckily, they were found in the dumpster.
They had a problem awhile back with food mysteriously disappearing from offices and refrigerators in our main office.
And last week, a mini-Snickers bar that I was given on Valentines day mysteriously disappeared from my desk overnight.
Now I’m pissed. Really pissed off. In the eleven years I’ve worked here, I’ve never locked my office door. Times are changing.
27/02/2007 at 6:02 pm Permalink
but but but!
i can point you to some software that will make your webcam(s) into one of two things.
1) records on motion video camera
2) time lapsed photography device
then all you have to do is leave another snickers as bait, and wait for the unsuspecting bear. you can even host your images cross the internet, or watch from home. in theory, could could even have it send you a SMS when said animal activates its motion sensors, and watch the action live from home.
all you’d need then is a remote operated water gun…..
28/02/2007 at 12:36 am Permalink
http://www.theill.com/conquercam/
i used it for a while.
http://www.webcamxp.com/
webcamXP is.. insane.
both assume you’ve got windows aboot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages#Webcam
and the ever popular free stuff. i’ve not used any.
28/02/2007 at 12:37 am Permalink
how come i didn’t have to type codes the first time, but did the second?