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Computers & Fun #4 6/14 Wednesday Afternoon - Computer Lab

The computer lab is set up like an office today, the seats moved apart so each student has their own cube-shaped area. Abby is sitting up front, her usual white labcoat traded for a oversized men's suit jacket.

"Good afternoon my worker bees! Today we're going to be learning the two most important things office workers need to know. How to use offline computer programs like word processing and how to hide the fun stuff from their bosses." Abby ran through a quick description of programs like Word, Excel, notepad and their mac counterparts that the mun doesn't care about because her soul belongs to Bill Gates..

"Of course then you have the fun stuff. Solitaire, Spider Solitaire, Freecell, Minesweeper and my personal favorite..." Abby leaned forward and grinned, "Paintbrush! There's just something about making really crappy pictures with a limited color choices that speaks to my soul." She flipped her laptop around to show a couple of her own pictures. "This first one here is my old boss, if he decided to turn goth. This one is a duck." Abby shrugged. "I like ducks."

"So it's 3:00 on a Friday afternoon. You've got two hours before you can clock out and nothing left to do. You need to pick one of the fun activities to play around with but beware of the boss. If he catches you goofing off you might get fired." Abby straightened her jacket and nodded to them. "In order to not get caught you need to work on being sneaky. Alt-tab will get you to another window quickly, hitting minimize with your mouse, or the ever popular turning your screen off and pretending to be reading a report. Come up with a way to get back to your work screen and try not to get caught, and those of you who make it through class without letting me see your fun program get a prize!" Abby held up a box of caffeine-laced candy.

"Oh and I almost forgot! The school is having an art fair on Friday. So if any of you want to use this time to make an art project in paint...I think that would be cool." She grinned and shook the box of candy. "So cool that you might even get two packages of the awesome candy."

[ooc: threads coming up! Go ahead!]
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Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com 2006-06-14 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Just try and fool me!

[The students will decide whether or not they get caught. Should work like something this.
Student: *plays solitaire like a solitaire playing thing*
Abby: *walks up behind*
Student: either *gets caught* or *is sooper sneaky*]

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] connernotconnor.livejournal.com 2006-06-14 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Conner opted for Minesweeper. Card games involved more strategy than he cared to deal with, when it didn't involve him out on the field, and his version of Minesweeper strongly resembled a game of Russian Roulette with a 500-round (square?) revolver.

Still, maybe it was the adrenaline junkie in him that had him glued to the screen for his repeated haphazard rounds of "click until I go boom." It wouldn't have been hard to sneak up on him at all.

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com 2006-06-14 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Abby tugged on her suit jacket and rustled a few papers as she approached. "Hmmm, I wonder if Conner has that TPS report?"

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] connernotconnor.livejournal.com 2006-06-14 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Conner was too caught up in trying to see how much longer his random clicks could avoid cataclysmic explosion to realize right away that Abby was coming up behind him.

He tried to Alt-Tab back over to the work screen, but hit the Windows key instead, which only brought his Start Menu up for half a second. When that failed, he attempted to go for the minimize button . . . but he never was that good with a touchpad.

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2006-06-14 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Bridge opens paint and starts drawing something that looks suspiciously like five people in brightly-coloured costumes.

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com 2006-06-14 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to middle management school I go!" Abby sung cheerfully as she walked closer to Bridge.

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2006-06-14 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
It's totally not cheating if one happens to be psychic and thus has a bit of an early-warning system when it comes to people who might try and sneak up on him.

Bridge alt-tabs and his Paint masterpiece is replaced by a complicated-looking Excel spreadsheet.
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Re: Super Sneaky!

[personal profile] likethegun 2006-06-15 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Sam was a big fan of Spider Solitaire, so he went straight for that.

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Abby clicked a stapler as she walked closer to Sam. She didn't talk this time, trying to be sneakier.

[now with the making of sense!]
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Re: Super Sneaky!

[personal profile] likethegun 2006-06-15 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Sam had his non-mouse using hand on the Alt+Tab keys, so at the first sign of noise, he switched screens back to Microsoft Excel. Ooh, shiny spreadsheet!

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Zack shrugged and started up a game of solitaire.

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Bored? Abby was so there. So she was being very stealthy now. Unfortunatly her jewlery clinked together as she snuck up behind Zack.

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Zack heard the clinking and quickly flicked over to a wordfile filled with scientific gibberish.

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] willbedone.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Willow was actually being super sneaky in that not only was she pretending to do non-worky things at work, but she was actually skipping the part about playing Solitaire and the like and was instead going online to continue her research into ways to fix the screwed-up spell with Alec and Dean.

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Abby has gotten very, very bored. She's currently tiptoeing towards Willow trying to be quiet.

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] willbedone.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Oh sure, she could try. But Willow has had her sneaky research-fu honed by years of dealing with folks like Giles, who could out-quiet the sound of one hand clapping in a forest with nobody around to hear it.

Also she was cheating in class which upped her nerve levels.

A quick click of her panic button and she had a fake PowerPoint presentation on her screen. It was about office supply useage.

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] peter--parker.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Peter went for a big non-sneaky game: Pinball. That would be require his blatantly goofing off. If he could do this, he would be happy.

Too bad he sucked at computer pinball.

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Abby turned towards Peter and raised her eyebrows. This might require super-sneakiness. Or it might not...but she was really bored.

She slipped off the suit jacket and held it next to her to muffle the sound of her jewelry. Stepping forward, Abby kept up a near-silent mantra of "don'tturnarounddon'tturnaround."

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] peter--parker.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Even with only one good arm, Peter was fast enough move his hand back to the mouse and pull up the Word document he had minimized.

Unfortunately, he didn't do so until Abby was right behind him. Woe.

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
John held up his hand and tried to get the professor's attention. "Professor? This keyboard's not the greatest. Can I use my left-handed one instead? I need to install some software to get it working right, though."

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Not a problem, John." Abby smiled. "Let me know when you're ready so I can get sneak up on you."

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
JOhn grinned. He installed (http://www.opera.com/) some (http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/) software (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/) and started surfing the web (http://www.fark.com) for porn after the keyboard everything was properly configured.

All in all, it took about 10 minutes. "Professor? I'm ready."

((this time with closed tags!))

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] ranma-sao.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Attempts to be sneaky but... really got no idea what things he can do with his computer that's goofing off. He stares at the desktop blankly.

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Ranma, I showed you the programs at the beginning of class." Abby said, kneeling down next to his seat. "It's really easy to make a picture in paintbrush." She leaned across him to open up the program and clicked a few times to make some designs. "Now you try it."

Re: Super Sneaky!

[identity profile] ranma-sao.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
He does try it and he doodles a squiggly looking dinosaur and attempts a nervous grin at her after he finishes. "Like that?"
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