Life In The Office

NBC has posted the newest webisode. (This one is #4 if you’re counting.) This time they interview Stanley and he’s quite funny.

My laugh out loud moment was Kevin looking into the camera serious and taunting, “The joke’s on you, Angela.”

The webisode is here…and it seems to work just fine this time.

(On a side note, that FedEx commercial that plays before the webisode is great. “Jerome, I need you to continue talking a big game and then doing nothing.” “Let’s do it.”)

Well here’s a fun little way to customize your Mac and show your love for The Office.

A good friend of mine named Alan (the same one that spotted the Office cast in Arrested Development) took the time to make some really great icons of The Office characters. He recently sent me a disk image full of them. He uses these as the icons of different Office episodes on his Mac.

I thought that it would be a fun idea to use these Office icons as the icons of Microsoft Office. It’s an easy change to make.

1) You’ll want to download the icons here. It will be full of nice icons.

2) Once you have the disk image mounted, you can select whichever icon you want to use. Once selected, choose “Edit -> Copy” in Finder.

3) Decide which application icon you’d like to change. Highlight that application in Finder and press “Command – i” to get more info.

4) In the “Info” window, you’ll see the icon in the top left hand corner. Click on that icon so it is highlighted in blue. Once highlighted, select “Edit -> Paste”.

And there you have it. Here is a picture of the gang in my dock.

In my dock I opted to go with Dwight as Micrsoft Excel, due to his exacting personality. Powerpoint has become Michael, the ever trying showman. Word has become Jim, a platform for creativity. And Entourage is Pam, the one that keeps everything organized. ( I don’t have Messenger on my Mac, otherwise that would have been Ryan the temp since he’s Michael’s errand boy.)

Do you think I got these right? Who would you have as what? (The disk image has more than just these five people.)

PS, if you want to use these icons on a folder, that is an easy thing to do as well. Use the freeware called FinderIconCM and it’s simple. Here is a picture of the folder that holds my Office episodes.

A while back, I mentioned that LITO reader Clint was putting together an Office drinking game and he wanted your help. Well, with that help, he has created the Offical Office Drinking Game. I will include the game below.

As I said before, I’m not a drinker. But, I will be interested to see how each of the new episodes score. As the new season starts up, we’ll have Clint write in after each episode to let us know what the total count was for that show. Also, if any of you go back and watch some old episodes, put the episode total in this comment section of this post. That’d be interesting to know.

And now, tha official game rules:

Alright!! We have a final list. I decided to give the thread a few weeks to marinate and it looks like all the comments that were gonna come in have come in. Everyone’s feedback was awesome, but there was just too many to use them all. I did make adjustments to some that I did choose from LITO readers but nothing was drastically altered. I decided 20 rules was a good round number. You know, not too many to remember and not too little to NOT have fun. So without further ado. (In my best enthusiastic Michael Scott voice) “Leave all your preconceived notions of drinking games at the door; I Clint Haller present to you The OFFICIAL “The Office on NBC” DRINKING GAME:
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THE OFFICE on NBC Drinking Game (OFFICIAL RULES)

Created by Clint Haller (cptsolo@hotmail.com), John Corliss, Brenden Conway, and the readers of the Life In the Office website

ONE drink for the theme song (just because it rocks!)
ONE drink if a Dundie is mentioned or seen (including title sequence)
ONE drink if someone says “question” before asking a question
ONE drink every time Pam says “Dunder Mifflin this is Pam”
ONE drink for every time Jim gives the camera that look he has.
ONE drink if the Homer Simpson doll is in frame
ONE drink every time downsizing is mentioned.
ONE drink everytime Dwight makes a Lord of the Rings reference.
ONE drink when Michael makes a joke or a play on words with an employees’ name
ONE drink anytime Dwight’s bobbleheads are in a shot, TWO drinks if it is THE Dwight Bobblehead
TWO drinks for Meredith’s alcohol traits (and you gotta ‘cheers’ to her as well)
TWO drinks for “Bob Vance from Vance Refrigeration.”
TWO drinks for “that’s what she said”, no matter who says it
TWO drinks when the office is referred to as “The Orifice”
TWO drinks if Michael makes an INACCURATE reference
THREE drinks if Michael makes an ACCURATE reference
THREE drinks for a Saturday Night Live reference (there’s lots of them.Former cast members included and Conan[he was a writer])
THREE drinks for a Todd Packer appearance__TWO for a phone call___ONE for a mention (he’s SNL too, so an appearance is FOUR drinks total!)
THREE drinks whenever Dwight mentions beets or his beet farm
FOUR drinks when we see Michael & Jan kissing (we have three total incl.flashback,but more may come)