Happy Hallowe’en! Soon.
Hey folks. Well, it’s not quite Hallowe’en yet, but here at the FreshBooks World Headquarters, we’re getting a jump on the holiday and we thought you’d get a kick out of this. Taavi and I came in on the weekend with a can of spray paint and a defenseless Bondi iMac and today the FreshBooks office is now properly festive for Hallowe’en with our new iMac-O-Lantern!
Boo!
We got the idea from this awesome Instructables article. Today somebody went and added a FreshBooks leaf to our newest little orange friend, so he’s properly branded.
The face changes every twenty minutes (I made them with OmniGraffle), using the JPEGView application described in the Instructables article. Here are some shots of the process:
Primed and Ready to Go!
Painting the iMac's bottom. He does look pretty helpless, doesn't he? Poor little guy.
Just awaiting the peeling of the tape -- the most exciting part of the whole process!
And there you have it! Unfortunately, the iMac is kind of noisy — it emits a peculiar sort of high-pitched whine — and it’s right beside poor Rich’s head, so either Rich is going to go insane or we’ll have to move it. We still haven’t decided which will be more fun.
How are you dressing up your office for Hallowe’en?
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1:26 pm
Hehe, it is smiling in the office right now
1:51 pm
It’s too late for me!
1:55 pm
[...] I’ve got a first generation blue iMac sitting in my garage. It’s not really powerful enough to use for anything I do. I’m seriously tempted to something like this to it: Happy Hallowe’en! Soon. [...]
1:57 pm
oh look at that….now it’s angry.
2:22 pm
When we booted it, we were presented with an OS 9.2 boot screen, and had to download JPEGView with IE5. It also thought we were living in 1904…
4:18 pm
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12:19 am
Happy Halloween FreshBooks! Are you guys gonna end up dressing up tomorrow? It will all have to be leaf related!
9:10 am
@Donna Vitan: I WAS going to come as Adam with just a FreshBooks leaf, but I was worried it would distract my co-workers too much.