Friday, July 11, 2008

The Box Number 4 Mystery

I'm a Lotus Notes administrator. When you start Notes, you get this screen:



If your computer is slow enough, and as a contractor mine is, you spend a lot of time looking at this every day. Eventually you develop names for each box.

Box 1. Artsy-half-faced woman who feels blase about her email;
Box 2. Meaningless-Lotus-patented-color circles;
Box 3. IBM employees with 30 days to find another position frantically searching;
Box 4. Um . . . huh?

What is that? To me it looked like a ballet dancer stretching her leg. Some years ago I asked my co-worker who'd been with IBM for 29 years what box number 4 was. She didn't know either but thought it was someone cleaning a horse's hoof. But we both knew that wasn't the part of a horse that had anything to do with email.

We finally found someone who figured it out. The answer tomorrow.

1 comment:

Nadia: The Lead CRA said...

It's a dude's crotch and he is writing on a PDA with a stylus. That box?