geek pranks
[and now, for something completely different...]
A hearty welcome back online to Andy, who recently posted an explosion of superawesomeness when he wrote about the best. prank. ever.
Much earlier in our RIT careers (OK, well actually 2 years earlier) the two of us embarked on a much less-creative prank. With a year’s worth of collected BMG stamps and nothing better to do, we located our friend Seth’s car – as I recall it was parked near the Building 7 loading dock, awaiting his return from some manner of drama rehearsal – and indulged yet another dumbass, mind-numbing-winter-induced, boredom-spawned idea:
At one point, I had a printed version of that shot with arrowed captions reading, “Current club president” and “Past club president’s car” – referring of course to that pillar of geekdom, the RIT Ham Radio Club. I think Andy’s tongue may have gotten adhered to the roof of his mouth somewhere in the course of this mischief, requiring copious amounts of beer to remove it.
Sometimes, looking back on where you’ve come from gives you good insight into how you got where you are. And then you look back on times like this one, and gain … no such insight.
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Ahh… memories…. back when we were eager, young, budding engineers with a lack of applications…. though if memory serves me right the doorbell story is a little embellished (though completely acceptable since a few years have passed)….. Seems to me that Gomez killed the breaker for the doorbell after a couple of minutes and we had to actually go knock on their door at some point….
I prefer to look at it as “creative license.” =P
OK, for starters, that was the incident I was originally going to write about. Secondly, I forgot that photo even existed. Thirdly, I distinctly recall almost vomiting from licking palm sized sheets of BMG stamps in one go.
Ahh, those were the days. Or something.
Speaking of that picture, it’s a testament to how far digital cameras have come since 1998-1999. My little Olympus point-and-shoot just made you look kinda … dead.
And I must say, the other photos that cohabited the old CD-R where this one lived? Yeah, the dust just can stay on those.
Would I be infringing upon any trademarks or other property rights if I were to use this prank and call it my own?!