Last week at work we were told that there was a door decorating contest for the holidays. Well, my people and I work in cubicles so we were without a door. Well, we decided to find a nearby one and commandeer it. The result? A Geeky Holiday Dream.
We went through several iterations which first included taking the door off the hinges and putting it up in front of a cubicle, then decorating the door to look like the inside of said cubicle. Finally, we settled on constructing a miniature office and putting different sci-fi characters inside of it dressed in a holiday theme. We had Yoda as Santa, Worf, Frodo and Spidey as elves and Hagrid as Frosty. We even had Harry Potter riding by on a candy cane and Gollum peering down from above. The cubicles were modeled after the ones we work in, complete with mini PC's with their browsers pointed toward our applications and miniature, working fluorescent lighting. The background was black and starry complete with real constellations and the whole thing was wired for sound with a mixture of Christmas music and sci-fi movie quotes shuffled and played in a loop.
To tie the whole thing together, I wrote the following poem and we included a copy of it on the door.
Twas the night before Geekmas, and all through this pun
Not a phaser is firing, not even on stun.
The systems were up on the network, no fear,
In hopes not to crash before the end of the year.
The Ewoks all sang and the Wookies did shed,
While visions of new jobs danced in their heads.
No gnomes causing mischief, no droids sold for scrap;
MyPay has gone buggy, there's no time to nap!
In the middle of the night, they all heard the chatter.
Everyone was called in to see whats the matter.
The hobbits came running to yon OPM
And Klingons reported to Leotis, Kim.
The forest moon of Endor cried in alarm
Overtime would be needed just like a charm
They gazed out office windows and what should appear?
But the starship
With a little old driver, all hopped up on soda,
They knew in a moment, it must be Saint Yoda.
"All night you must work, time not there is for pain!"
The force he did use to yell at them by name.
"Now Hobbits! Now Klingons! Now Haggrid as Frosty!
On Spidey! On Starships and on Harry Potter!
To the top of the ceiling and off of the walls!
All over you're bouncing with no caffeine at all!"
His face was so wrinkled and ears were so pointy
How could they refuse him or laugh at the shorty?
Everyone worked hard and made their monitors glow.
They all toiled away as they heard "Make it so!"
With a test username and a test password too,
The system was humming, thanks to the crew.
Now Yoda was happy and the users did scream
Because its time for an end to this Geeky Holiday Dream!
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