Zork for Crestron TPS-5000
 

Heh... so yesterday at work i needed to make a test program for a batch of Crestron touch panels (part of a classroom media control system). I had some spare time, so I sat down and recreated the first few rooms of Zork for Crestron (using buttons for movement and commands rather than a parser) and loaded them up to test the panels. So on installation the default program on each panel's going to be Zork, at least partially.

Anyway... random geek note :)

You and my boyfriend would probably get along. He had a summer job in high school doing something or other with Franklin computers for the school system, and he reprogrammed the chip that the computers booted up on to display a message saying "Turn me off."

My favorite practical joke in the software company where I used to work was taking a screenshot of an error message and setting it as desktop wallpaper. I got like five engineers and two QA guys hunched over a computer in the lab trying to click OK to get it to clear.

But what you did sounds much more productive and smart than these little mind games...

*D emily