The messy office and the ghost
By Jakob Tanentsapf. Filed in News |
How do you get your messy co-worker to clean his desk? Well after asking him a couple of times without any results I decided to play a little prank on him. I knew beforehand that he really believes in ghost and often watches shows like Ghost Hunters and that he often stays late alone at the office.
This gave me an idea. I found an audio sample with children singing a song about cleaning up and added it as a sound event every time visual studio hits a break point while debugging. Later that night he was sitting alone at the office writing some code and heard the strange sound of children singing. He later told me he got really startled because he couldn’t figure out where the sound was coming from. He checked all the Windows processes for something that played the sound and even went so far as to check the hallway outside the our office.
Another funny thing is that he wrote to people on msn that night about his ordeal so they should know if anything happened to him. The best part of it all is that his desk was clean when I came to the office the next day.
Tags: audio, children, debugging, ghost, office, singing, Windows