Get Smart moments

I recently had some GET SMART moments at work.













Cone of Silence
This is how the C.O.S. works (or rather, didn't work) in the GET SMART TV series:




I had a meeting in one of the conference rooms and we couldn't get the laptops started. Someone decided to use the Crestron touch-screen console to contact the IT folks. After a long exchange of 'Hellos', we realised that even though we could all heard them on speaker mode, the technician at the other end could not hear us as our microphone was not activated!













Analysing chatter overheard by satellite
In GET SMART, Maxwell Smart has a talent for turning chatter overheard by satellite into 500-page reports, and he even analyses WHY 2 terrorists were having high-carbo muffins and decaff coffees from a short audio clip recorded in a cafe.

A few of us recently speculated why 2 chaps always seemed to buy gourmet coffee from different cafes ("Maybe they can't get along and don't want to bump into each other at the cafe") and why one of these guys always drinks the same brand as one of his female colleagues ("Maybe she buys it for him?").

On another day, we speculated why a particular manager used different colours in the email inbox to indicate who certain senders are, just like this:















For instance, yellow highlights were used for her boss, while green was used to highlight another senior person. And all the subordinates were highlighted in blue (and that filled up most of the inbox). One speculation went like this: "Maybe yellow (boss stands for lecherous or royalty... and that's how this person sees the boss; the green could connote that the other senior person is the object of envy, or is envious or gives green light to projects; and the blue smurfs just make this manager blue at work..."


Cue GET SMART theme: Dum dum dum.... DUM!