Nov 25 2008Google Employees Create Spreadsheet Art
This is a time-lapse video of three Google employees creating an 18,600 cell mosaic in a spreadsheet. As you will see, it has a nice wintry theme. Namely, snowflakes. Personally, I would have gone with Frosty bending Santa over his sleigh for not bringing him the new corncob pipe he wanted, while Mrs. Claus watches from the kitchen window and bakes those delicious cookies of hers. But I don't get paid to sit around and make spreadsheet art. I get paid to sit around and desecrate your Christmas memories. Happy holidays bitches!
18,600-Cell Spreadsheet Mosaic Captured On Time-Lapse Video [gizmodo]
Thanks to Harrison, who's allegedly keeping Frosty's head alive in his freezer.
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Reader Comments
1. Smile - November 25, 2008 1:46 PM
Stupid... something "internet-is-magic" girls would do.
2. Squeegee - November 25, 2008 1:50 PM
My grandparents might be impressed, but other than that... not so much.
3. Gizmoduck - November 25, 2008 2:01 PM
YAWN
psshhh
4. tomorrowsparty - November 25, 2008 2:06 PM
Glad to know that the good people are hard at work during the recession.
5. Daisy (TRO) - November 25, 2008 2:23 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is a lot like that scene in the movie NEver Back Down where Max made AC/DC play on his spreadsheet.
6. Daisy - November 25, 2008 2:24 PM
Definitely FAKE!!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadows are all wrong.
The reminds me of the wheel of fortune scene in Never Back Down, where Baja & Max are eating bacon flavored ice cream they stole from Del Taco (ran out of the place in a cardboard box) and spit some on the screen while laughing about Daisy comments they were reading in the wheel of fortune chatroom. Good thing they had water resistant bedsheets after all that rough sex too, cause the shamwows were in the wash!
7. fleity - November 25, 2008 2:28 PM
... working for google but unable to use a proper screen capturing tool... embarrassing
8. Madgame - November 25, 2008 2:42 PM
What the frack is a Christmas?
9. Sharpie - November 25, 2008 2:59 PM
http://media.putfile.com/Geekologie
10. PLEEEZE! - November 25, 2008 3:02 PM
*sigh* GW, wtfhdytyad? cyfsbfutr? omg! ys!
11. Hannukah Montana - November 25, 2008 4:04 PM
@9 You inspire me, Sharpie.
Do you have the lyrics to that? Can you post it?
12. Elmo - November 25, 2008 4:15 PM
woah! I mean WOAH! look at all the time they have to waste! wow
13. big brown - November 25, 2008 4:38 PM
pretty, and thats about it
14. J - November 25, 2008 5:34 PM
Man...I wish my meetings were to do things like that, rather than how to more efficiently move our WIP to get material off the floor...
15. Mike - November 25, 2008 6:40 PM
no wonder they just layed off 10,000 employees.
16. Derek - November 25, 2008 7:17 PM
Uh...there were FOUR people.
17. Blopit - November 25, 2008 8:46 PM
thats easy! I did the same thing with 48 feet of bubble wrap now i have this masterpiece wraped 3 times around my wall. now im trapped inside my room with only a laptop and a juice bax cause my doors covered in sctoch tape and bubble wrap :(
making a snowflake spreadsheet art thing is kinda like watch seinfield reruns... a waste of time. You google people have too much time on yur hands
18. George - November 25, 2008 10:12 PM
l2count bro
19. EZ - November 26, 2008 12:15 PM
The real story here is that a browser-based spreadsheet can store more than 1000 cells and not crash.