Posts Tagged "mike"

Woot Monkey: Fun and Disturbing

After grabbing a few items from woot.com, Chris decided to purchase this little guy: a Woot Monkey. Apparently, the thing launches in the same way that you would launch a slingshot, and emits a somewhat unsettling screeching sound. Kinda like it’s dying.

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Celebration!

Today marks the official soft launch of our division’s website. This has been the project that Chris and I have been working at, for some time now. It’s not quite ready for public viewing yet, but we did an internal launch today. Chris and I were both headed out around noon (we were taking a half day off, since we…

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Matt’s Bag-O-Money Challenge 4

Time for another coin guessing game! This one’s from Matt again, who brought in a big pillowsack full of change. I’m not sure how he accumulates so much change, so quickly. I’m convinced that every day, after work, he buys a Slim Jim or something, just so he can get change. He seems to be building these stockpiles faster than…

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Mike Witnesses an Attempted Suicide

This morning, on his way in to work… Mike saw a guy jump into the Chicago river. When I walked in to the office, I heard him telling the story and all day, people have been asking him what he saw, what happened. Over the course of the day, today… we were looking for news blurbs. Some accounts listed the…

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Surprise for Rey

Today was Rey’s birthday, and we all decided to get him birthday cake as a surprise. We hid the thing by Ben’s desk, and then crowded around pretending to be looking at some funny video on the web. The plan was, when Rey would come by to see what all the commotion was… we’d part, and reveal the cake. I…

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Mike vs. Cliff

Mike (L) and Cliff, battling it out for one of the Final slots. It was an exciting few games (first one to seven points, best of three). Cliff, as I mentioned, was last year’s office champ – and MAN, can that guy play. He was like a machine, just shot after shot in rapid-fire succession. First game, Mike won. Second…

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Air Hockey Competition

Last year, there was a big office-wide air hockey competition. Hopefuls from across all departments (Sales, Programming, Marketing/Promotion and even the airstaff) threw in and threw down. This year, now that we have another station on board… there are more players reaching for that rainbow. Ever since the renovation, the air hockey table has been moved out of the green…

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Happy (early) birthday, Mike!

Mike’s birthday isn’t until later on this month, but due to scheduling… we decided to have the celebratory lunch a bit early. Tricia was in from NY and Deb was in town, so we held the event a little early. We showed up at Portillo’s to find noisemakers and party hats, waiting for us. We had the whole back room…

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Huge snowflakes

Late in the morning, someone looked out the window and noticed the incredibly HUGE snowflakes coming down. Granted, it was snowing pretty hard, but I don’t know that I’ve ever really seen snow this big before. This had everyone out of their seats and up against the windows, looking out over downtown Chicago. I don’t know that these pictures (and…

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