A GThing Science Project

Yesterday I was sitting at my desk when a film crew rolled in to the office and started setting up their cameras and everything RIGHT BEHIND ME. Apparently I was supposed to be the backdrop for this commercial they were filming. Interesting how nobody told me...

The spokeswoman came up and stood directly behind my chair and started talking to the cameras, doing her lines. Nobody this entire time said anything to me, but it was clear that I was on camera and that my triple monitor desk was the main backdrop for the commercial.

I couldn't exactly have client data up on my screen, so I just started messing around. First I pulled up this on my far left monitor (Thanks, Dean). It's basically a countdown timer that flies by really fast with Arabic writing right above it. Innocuous enough, right?

On my main monitor I pulled up a rolling demo of one of the coolest looking games ever, Defcon. It looks a little something like this:

I also pulled up a satellite photo zoomed in on the White House and another map of the world that shows all my server traffic over the last several minutes (with lines all connecting to my server which happens to be in Washington D.C.).

On my far right monitor I pulled up a Windows virtual machine and put a BSOD on it. Then in my display preferences I flipped the monitor image 180 degrees so the whole thing was upside down. After all that, my desktop looked a little something like this:

I toyed with the idea of running MILF308, which is a program that shoots up TONS of ridiculous novelty popup windows that advertise all sorts of ridiculous internet warez, but I thought it would get too obvious - and some of them are a bit NSFW.

They filmed for an hour or two, me in the background the whole time hitting refresh on my Arabic countdown timer every time they said "action!" Nobody said a word to me the entire time. Finally at the end one of the film crew came up to me and said "So, uhh .... what are you working on over here?" I just told him I was keeping busy with some client reports and he walked off. Those are some pretty interesting client reports!

I can't wait to see the commercial. If I find it (I think it will be posted online), I'll definitely link to it here so you can see the evil genius in the background conducting thermonuclear war.