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Office Prank Video: Developer + Igloo = Productivity

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In the middle of August Bertan took a 4 week vacation to get married. Well, as is a grand Microsoft tradition, we had to do something to his office. It took us two weeks to come up with the idea. In the end we went on a hunch and decide to build an igloo. This is the story of Bertan’s igloo…

Oh, and if you'd like to work with folks like this who build software... and sometimes other objects... check out the article that goes with this video here:

https://blogs.msdn.com/jledgard/articles/igloojobs.aspx

 

Footnotes:

  • The music was graciously donated by Jeremy Jones, who is a PM in Visual Studio land.  You can get more of his music @ www.jeremyjonesmusic.com.
  • The whole thing was captured and edited in Vista with RC1 and Movie Maker!  I only ran into one crashing bug and it's been fixed since RC1. 
  • There was exactly 1 4x8 sheet left over as calculated!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 22, 2006
    Does that count as "Collaborative Development"

    :-) You really make it enticing, especially for us Canadians; who already live in igloos...
  • Anonymous
    September 22, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    September 25, 2006
    Is it me, or did he have the smallest desk ever?
  • Anonymous
    September 25, 2006
    Yes, we used a small desk piece to make sure we had enough room in the igloo.
  • Anonymous
    September 25, 2006
    That was too awesome. It actually looked like a fun place to work in, sort of an office within an office.
  • Anonymous
    October 06, 2006
    It isn't 1350 pounds of sand (ask Josh sometime about his beach front office - yes, we did), but it'll