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A Whole New Kind of Stargazing…

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

You hopeless romantics (or wannabes)… here’s how you pull off something totally perfect for one of your Valentine’s Day surprises.

Download the 3D Moonlight Lake ScreenSaver from Freeze, shut off the lights, grab that special someone and stare at the stars. Even though it’s a ridiculously cheesy move, I can personally guarantee some excellent brownie points for this one.

…and…

As an added bonus, if you’re techishly geeky enough to have one, hook up that InFocus Projector machine and shine that thing up on the ceiling.

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Living Marine Aquarium Screensaver – The Safe Alternative to a Fish Bowl.

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

So… I nearly fell out of my chair in hysterics today. One of my coworkers sent me an instant message and said he just took a big ol’ swig out of “the dirty fish water.” Now I know he’s got a fish bowl on his desk, but I couldn’t imagine…

Wait….
“The dirty fish water?”
This is WAY too hilarious to actually be the story I’m imagining it is.
Then I asked.

Yep – turns out this sweet little fish bowl he has on his desk… well – in the midst of removing “Dot” from his bowl, placing him in the holding cup, and going back to work while he let the water in the freshly cleaned bowl temperature acclimate…. he forgot there was nasty rancid fish water in that cup. AND a fish. Took a big ol’ swig.

Now – I can’t imagine how horrifying it was for him the second he realized what happened – but can you imagine how terrified poor little Dot was? Holy moly.

People… even though I, too, have a fish in a bowl on my work desk… this might be a good reason to stick to just having the Living Marine Aquarium Screensaver v2 be the only place there are fish swimming back and forth anywhere near our desks while we’re working. You can’t drink the water, and the fish won’t ever croak either.

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