Printer Hacked! I’ve just found a PERL script that changes any HP network printer’s default READY message to whatever you want and I have it running in Terminal on my Mac.

For now the message is set as on the picture below. Let’s see how long it takes for someone to notice.

I have a few messages “waiting” to try later, like:

I AM WATCHING YOU,

CHECK ENGINE OIL,

NO TOILET PAPER,

LASER RADIATION PROBLEM
PLEASE STAY AWAY,

PLEASE INSERT MORE PAPER
IN TRAY 5 (which doesn’t exist)

PLEASE CHANGE
PINK TONER NOW (it’s a black&white printer)

THIS PRINTER WILL EXPLODE
IN ABOUT ONE MINUTE

and whatever comes to my mind, also accepting suggestions via this post’s comments (please).

Next time someone gets in the printer cubicle, which I can see from my desk, I’ll try to start a dialog:
HELLO, “WHATEVER_NAME”
I NEED YOUR HELP

PLEASE HELP ME
I AM BEING MOLESTED BY “NAME”

UPDATE:

Zubi was the victim again this morning.
While she was away from her desk for a few minutes:

• I stole her bowl of cereals with banana slices.
• I took a picture of the real cereals (from the top).
• I printed the “paper cereals” and cut them out.
• I put them in an empty bowl (with spoon and all).
• I place the fake cereals in the same place where the others were.

Result: When Zubi gets back to her desk to continue her tasks and breakfast, it was priceless to see her face (for 20 seconds or so), trying to figure out what was wrong, with kind of an “am I getting insane?” expression. Eventually after a few more seconds she looked at me and it was impossible to disguise my guilty face.

The picture above (click it to enlarge) was taken after I got her back the real cereals (at her right side). She is “eating” the fake ones.

Another office prank. Actually I had this video already online, but not on the blog. Zubi was the victim this time (Tina was away, in China). I just left a nasty rubber finger (everyone has one, right?) close to her tea cup while she was away for 15 seconds. Her reaction can be seen on the video below (you can view it bigger clicking here).

[video http://fcolaco.com/zubi/zubifinger_hr.flv]

This sushi bomb, prepared by Sonia (even if I was the blamed one, as usual) got Barradas as the victim… Avocado she said… But the sushi was filled only with LOTS of wasabi. To cry for (he did).

Just a very quick post… because it’s really worth a look at this amazing ad: http://fcolaco.com/thecar << click here

Tina was the victim… again… in the same day… since last try with the rat in the kitchen didn’t work very well.

The victim was Pei “Tina” Zhai (again).

Instructions: pile 3 huge 2o liter water containers or more (to try later) in front of the bathroom door when someone is inside and wait…
I am talking about empty containers, unless you really don’t like your victim, but for that case, bricks work better.

First of all, I am aware I am not posting for ages so, here goes a useless post.

Just another of my innocent pranks. I just made some cutouts of a magazine and swapped two family pictures on the frames on my friend Claudia’s living room.

Let’s see how long they take to find out “Manuel Luis Goucha” and “The chicken”.

Just another random prank at the workplace. The victim on the video was Sabrine. We left this “armed” pack of Pringles on her desk while she was away. I guess she will start checking every snack appearing mysteriously on her desk from now…

I bought this “Potato chip jumping snakes” (and a few other useless things like the remote controlled fart machine) in the PrankPlace site below. Just click it and search for “snakes”:

Here it is: the very first post in this blog. And by the way, what is this all about? Well, this will be the place where I’ll post a lot of nonsense pictures, weird videos, useless articles I might come up with and whatever I decide to post, whenever I decide to post, after all, this is my blog.