Forum Addiction (U Know You're Addicted When...)

[Gryphin]

Thanks for the idea dogscoff, I'll put it right beside the P II processor. They will never suspect a thing.

I have SE installed but I only asccess it before 9am. I may be IS but I'll be on thin ISE if I get caught with that open.

[Erax]

I have a nice rearview mirror on my monitor at home. It even comes with a sticker that says, "Caution: bosses in mirror may be nearer than they appear".



But I work in a room, not a cubicle, so I only have to worry when someone shows up to get something from the closets behind me.

[Kamog]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
Hint: use the shiny side of a CD as a rear-view mirror. positioned correctly, no-one will ever sneak up on you again. Failing that, opening a small black window (MSpaint will do) in the corner of your screen reflects quite nicely...

If you work on a program that has a changeable background color, you can turn it black. I use Microsoft Visual Studio so I changed the source windows to have a black background and the text to white. So I have the Visual Studio maximized, and the forum window as a small window on top. I scroll down a bit to hide the bullet logo. It also helps to have other windows on the screen like Notepad, DOS prompt, etc to make the screen look busy. When I see the reflection of the boss on the black background, or if I hear his footsteps I quickly click on the Visual Studio window to bring it to the foreground, so the forum window gets hidden behind it. Also, I set the task bar to auto-hide.

Unfortunately, I'm very busy at work so I rarely get to use this trick.

Or maybe you can use some non-graphical, text-based internet browser program to read and post to the forum. When there are no graphics and it's just text, anything looks like work.

[ May 13, 2003, 05:32: Message edited by: Kamog ]

[Xaren Hypr]

Or maybe you can use some non-graphical, text-based internet browser program to read and post to the forum. When there are no graphics and it's just text, anything looks like work.

I guess there is still some life for Lynx yet...

[Atrocities]

An added question would be,

Q Is this forum your home page?
Q Do you go through withdrawls when it is down?
Q Do you post more than five times an hour?
Q Do you read this forum at work?
Q Do you wish you worked at this forum?

LOL, We need another 12 step program in addition to our current 12 Step Program for SEIV addiction.

[Gryphin]

I use Notepad to hide yahoo messenger. I'll type the message in notepad, cut, Alt Tab, then paste.

I have to be fast. I think I will stick to using the remote office I found.

Clearly we all have a problem here. The question is do we want to fix it.

[Krsqk]

Originally posted by Gryphin:
Clearly we all have a problem here. The question is do we want to fix it.

Problem? Who's got a problem? What's the problem with this? I don't see anything wrong with this behavior. I'm not addicted...

[dogscoff]

LOL! In response to all of Atrocities' questions: Yes.

As for lynx- yeah, it was a great browser. Only trouble is that ppl here would recognise it, being of a technical nature. What I need is a browser that's disguised as Excel or word.

Actually, you can display web pages in Word, can't you?

Hmmm...

[Erax]

I just got the weirdest idea... why not do an 'office mod' for SEIV ? Change the space backgrounds to white. Change the planets, etc. images to look like lines of code/text/numbers. Change report images and speech files so they look like work but you still know what they mean.

Hmmm... better yet, call this the 'boss mod' !!

[Gryphin]

Originally posted by dogscoff:

Actually, you can display web pages in Word, can't you?

Hmmm...

Now that you mention it Word does have a Web toolbar but when you go to a web site it becomes IE. You can hit the back button an it will revert to Word.