June 4th, 2008
Sticky situation
This cubicle farm is more like a wildlife reserve.
The flocks of paperclips, the elastic band nests… and a food chain that ends at the shredder.
There’s a monitor that looks as if it has waded through a deep swamp of filing, only to emerge covered in parasitic sticky notes (Trieminus postits).
Apparently burning them off with a zippo lighter is not the done thing.
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Rather than seeing the office nonsense as alive itself, I tend to think these are remnants of instinctive animal rituals. Someone should do a full length nature documentary about people in an office and be sure to narrate it as such.
That would be pretty cool.
*tries out his best Attenborough voice over*
Here deep within the ….
They already do…it’s called The Office.
Of course I speak of the American version.
Actually the British version with its more low-key style fits more in line with the idea of a nature doc.
The ‘pilot’ episode of the British series actually had a nature documentary voice over, but they dropped it, feeling that it was a bit overkill, like a laugh-track… I think they made the right choice.
The Office is often touted as one of the first ‘faux-documentary’ TV shows (Spinal Tap beating it soundly to the silver screen), but there is another show, very similar that pulled it off a few years previously…
Peter Kay made an episode called ‘The Services’ in 1998, about a Northern service station, using many of the techniques that would make The Office so successful…
It also had the classic line, ‘Radio Chorley, coming in your ears’.
Ah, but did anyone ever see Fear of a Black Hat, which did for hip-hop music what Spinal Tap did for hair metal?
No, I had not… just checked the IMDB… I’ll try to get hold of that – it looks pretty cool.
don’t you *dare* burn my sticky notes. my life
is on them. without them, i’d be completely lost.
OK, about turn on the stickies…
What else should I burn then?
The roof?
The roof is on fire! We don’t need no water…
My office doesn’t use sticky notes.
We just have A1 and A0 plans every where adorned in black finger prints, pacer sketching and highlighter.
Water proof note books covered in brown mud stains and black dust litter the other spaces available.
I mean, we have sticky notes, just no one uses them.
Even when they would be the easiest solution.
Like the note I found next to my phone to tell me to call payroll.
The note was written on the cover of a clean, brand new, water proof note book.
The note books are stored on the same shelf as the sticky notes.
*made me think of the utimate, A0 sticky note*
We’re a bit like that here, if it’s near the phone then it’s going to get used for messages.
That said, using a whole notebook instead of a sticky is dedicatation.
Waterproof notebooks – the only improvement that could be made to my moleskine… then I could take notes in the bath.
Oh man, waterproof fieldbooks are great. I’ve been using them for years — hard to do any ecology with out them.
http://www.riteintherain.com/
I always assumed you ecology types just made up the results in the lab after a daytrip out to the country… have I misunderstood the purpose of ecology?
Hey! That’s classified… who’ve you been talking to?
Geologists… they’re rubbish at keeping secrets.
Ah, the geologists always were a security problem. Tut tut.
Books in log scales are great! They make all sorts of neat variations. I like them for many of the same reasons I like and use Moleskins, too — they are consistently the same, year after year. At our field station at the Souther Pines Ecological Institute, we had 25 years of data, all in identical Rite-In-the-Rain field notebooks. It was pretty neat.
Oh, and those books… a log scale book, superb.
Oh, hell yeah, geo’s are bad at keeping secrets.
Tho they are good for donkey work
About the water proof notebooks Roo.
Do yours scratch easily? I find that the top layer of the paper is easy to scratch off, which is annoying when my bull nose clips get stuff (rubber bands snap to regularly, so I use bull nose clips{not for use on real bull noses}).
I had a dream about you and a notebook the other night.
It was very stange.
Not to sure wtf you were involved, but you were.
But exceedingly cheap if you buy them from Tescos, I find.
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