Best. Employee. Ever.

Everybody has their price. Everyone draws the line somewhere. Everyone waits for the straw that breaks the camel's back. For me this is a number, and that number is 3. Three comments and I feel like I can move on. I fully intended to post on Tuesday. But I was waiting for that third comment. It's like watching a Saved by the Bell marathon. You just watched an hour of it, butthey're only playing one more episode... might as well stick around for the third. Same thing.

Anyway, I have a job that offers awkward hours, alternately surly or incompetent coworkers, and a higher sense of responsibility than the title implies. But it's not really that bad. Especially considering the hours and hours of nothing-to-do that I must regularly kill (and get paid for). But, as I said above, at some point enough is enough and you have to fill those hours with something.

Well it just so happens I have an addiction that would while away more hours than I work in a day. It has a name: the World of Warcraft. The problem being, it doesn't seem like a very responsible way to spend my day, does it?

"How was work today, Scott?"

"Oh horrible, some damned level 70 rogue kept ganking me while I was trying to escort the Night Elf back to Honor Hold."

That aside, even though my boss is cool with any diversions that don't detract from my performing job duties, I still don't want to be seen playing. Lots of people come in and out of the Data Center, and despite the fact that it looks like the bridge of the damned Enterprise some people actually stop and check out what we're doing rather than oogle it.

This would be the NCC-1701 A, of course.

All nerdery aside, I needed a fool-proof way to play, without the risk of ever being caught. What I devised was no less than ingenious. I said it, ingenious. Observe:

On yer left: Sputnik running World of Warcraft. On yer right: Live security camera feeds for my floor.

How did I do this? Well I'd heard rumblings about the cameras in my building being capable of a web-interface and searched through all the documentation, and read the materials until I had the feed piped to my computer. Basically I can monitor the entire building from my desktop. And it gives me a five minute warning on approaching bosses, coworkers, and sight seers. Were there other ways to pass the time? Maybe. Would they have been as fun? Hardly.

- Scott