The Prestige

It's been a long, eventful run with the Annoy-a-tron. But today, in the middle of a crunch, my heart went out to Big J.

3:28 PM
[BIGJ] man that beeping in my office is back
[BIGJ] it's been gone for like a month, now it's back all of a sudden
[me] what beeping?
[me] your cell phone?
[BIGJ] you know that high pitched whistle in my office, I'm sure you've heard it in morning meetings
[BIGJ] PM: it's been gone for a while, but it's shown up again
[me] oh that noise-- i thought you said it was your ups?
[BIGJ] I thought it was, but after shutting a bunch of stuff, it was still beeping
[BIGJ] and then it just disappeared
[BIGJ] I dunno, I thought it was the electrical or something, and the work we did recently made it go away, guess not :(


So, we programmers gathered in his office to help him hunt for the source of the cursed electronic screeching one last time. And together, we pulled back the the CDs on his shelf to reveal a small circuit board responsible for so much pain.

Welcome to the PMB blog, Big J. And welcome to revenge.

Nothing new to report

Unfortunately, the last week has been uneventful. The beeping continues, but Big J seems resigned to it. He has indicated to others that he'd love to discover where it's coming from, but even though I've placed it in a very obvious spot on his bookshelf he hasn't found it. So I think the weeks have really worn him down.

Phase 2 approaches.

The saddest sound

As the device went off during the morning meeting today, I have it on reliable authority that Big J rolled his eyes and let off a long, mournful sigh. For some, that is the saddest sound. Not me, baby. Not me.

Didn't you get the memo?

Coworker Greg reports (paraphrased):

"I was walking by Big J's office, and I didn't know that you'd turned it back on. Just when I was walking by, Big J was greeting someone new (an interviewee?) and just as the other person was saying 'Hi, my name is...' I heard 'bweeeeee!' I almost died laughing."

Always happy to bring mirth to others and boundless suffering to Big J.

Of nice guys and finishing last

In a fit of niceness, I left the -tron turned off all day today, after having it on most of Thursday in Big J's office. He rewarded me by giving me PlayStation 3 fanboy crap at lunch today. So now it is once more "on"... Monday will be a double dipping of annoying noises, and a TSR installed on his computer that randomly makes typos (per Greg's excellent suggestion).

Oh, and Sony sucks. Pass it on.