A bear wearing a birthday hat and a sweatervest drinking appletinis with a pirate cat.

found on Reddit

I think the vending machine dude hates everyone in the office.

When we get bored at work we start long email threads of Photoshop contests.  Here was my submission for a 6-port manifold with four hoses attached.  I call it, “The Communist War Machine Marches On… To Victory!”

Barcrawl
A barcrawl is an event planned by an organization or group of friends where people move from bar to bar at pre-designated times. The barcrawlers are often identified by a common T-shirt, which often has the bar names and times in case crawlers forget. Appears to have been popularized on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, due to the close proximity of bars and the bar entry age of 19.
[via Urban Dictionary]

My company is very safety conscious…. almost to a fault

It was that kind of weekend

A building filled with engineers and this is the solution we came up with to  deal with the heat in the second floor offices

There’s a group out there that’s collecting hair and nylons to create cheap oil booms that can be used in the Gulf oil spill.

You can check out their site here.

The premise is basically this: stuff a bunch of dog hair into a nylon, tie it off, and boom!  You’ve got yourself a boom…. to soak up oil.

So where am I going with this? 

Well look what I made like two years ago:

No puppies for oil!

Wandering around the UIUC campus looking for a big, empty wall in need of some wheatpasting