Holiday Gift Ideas for Your Office (or a certain Blogger)

The Hottest Gadgets - The office can be a cold, hard, unfeeling, life-sucking place to spend your working days, but then again you don’t have to live in Dilbertsville.  For all the stigma surrounding “the office,” you’re getting unique opportunities to interact with people and your environment in between filing TPS reports.

A lot of awesome ideas, lets run down a few of my favs (in case anyone wondering what a good gift for a full time cube work/part time blogger would be).


The Stealth Switch – Please don’t let this catch on.  TheStealthSwitch.com just doesn’t have the same ring as TheAltTab. 

Portable Sleeping Cube – I’ve been in the market for a comfortable, under desk/cube sleep option for years now.  Best I’ve come up with so far is an accumulation of jackets to act as pillows and blankets.

Carpet Skates – Love it! Finally an office competition that is Olympic worthy. This would really give me motivation to stop by the supply room once in a while when I run out of shit, rather than just stealing it from the cubes around me.

Babble Voice – Easily the most useful item on the list.  Would work wonders on my non stop babbling neighbor.  Music and talk radio just don’t seem to cut it, a tool specifically designed for this purpose is needed in my case, not that she'd get the hint anyway.

Bright Blinds – HA!  Seems like an idea designed in a corporate think tank. “Gee our workers are miserable in the fluorescent lighted cube with no windows in sight  How about we add more fluorescent lights but just hide them behind a window blind?  It’s a fire hazard and it will remind them of real windows so they can realize even more how much their office sucks!”  Pure awesomness (and yes I'd welcome this gift despite my mocking tone).

What Do People Do In Vermont? They Drive.

So CW survived his Vermont adventure pretty easily, not because I'm some natural outdoors man, simply because there isn't anything to do in Vermont, never mind anything dangerous.

As far as I can tell Vermonters spend their days running errands and chopping wood, and frankly, I'm not sure there is time for anything else.  You see, Vermonters have a strange sense of time and distance.  Ask a Vermonter where anything (restaurant, gas station, cheese factory, restaurant/gas station combo, country gift shop, cheese factory, syrup factory, cheese factory, etc...) is located and they'll tell you its right down the road.  Don't be fooled, follow up that question by asking how long it will take.  The answer will vary from 45 mins- 1 hour.  Why? Because Vermonters incorrectly believe that any location that is within state borders is "right down the road."  45 minutes through farm country, driving at terrifying speeds on country roads to these people is my equivalent of walking up the street to Store 24.  

I always used to wonder how people spent their days since there isn't much to do up there, turns out they don't have time for anything but errands.  You just pack a lunch and a snack pack early in the morning, pack up the car and drive all around the state in search of common house hold items and necessities.  You return in the evening, have a dinner and go to sleep to do it all over again.  Miserable.  

It'll be a very long time before this blogger is convinced to cross that border again, I can't stand going to the store when its 5 minutes away, never mind a long weekend that entirely consists of running errands.  

CNN Reporting on Classics Such As Dumb and Dumber

Hysterical, there's not much to add here.

It works on multiple levels, the metaphor could be about how the Republicans and Obama working together on this tax plan is the same as Lloyd fire bombing that unsuspecting porcelain bowl with foul excrement. 

Or it could simply be a very vindictive way for the video editor to give his two weeks notice.  Every one assumes on air stars are jackasses to their staff, its likely that this clip symbolizes how those smug reporters treated the video editing crew for years.  And what do you do when you've been disrespected and under appreciated on the job?  You run a shit smear campaign on national television.