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by hoherd 1532 days ago
Send pictures of goats to goats@

Change their desktop picture to My Little Pony. (Some folks just left it.)

On macOS, put this into cron `5 */2 * * * sleep $$((RANDOM % 7200 )) ; creepily_say_random_words.sh` :

    #!/usr/bin/env bash

    words=$(awk 'BEGIN {srand()} !/^$/ { if (rand() <= .000015) print $0}' /usr/share/dict/words)
    echo "${words}"
    for voice in junior ralph whisper; do
        say -r 70 -v "${voice}" "${words}" &
    done
I was talking about this kind of thing with a US Santa Cruz researcher and she said they changed the default runlevel to 6.
4 comments

I thought you'd left the off the 'e' at the end goats, but no, you weren't that vicious, which is probably a good thing.
Just when I think I've repressed these memories from back in the day, here we are.
hey when life gives you lemons, know what you do? throw a party!
Put a spin on it and have some meat at your party
I used to tell people that there was an easter egg if you reached the highest score, so they'd just sit there counting
When you get there, can you tell me what Jeffrey Dahmer is really like?
> Change their desktop picture to My Little Pony.

We've been doing this with pictures of Mariusz Pudzianowski (a Polish weightlifter), most people learned to set up their screen lockers pretty quickly. Definitely more effective than spamming people with reminders about security policy. Fun times.

Goats or Goatse?

If the former, we have different colleagues

This is exactly what was done at LinkedIn back in the day.