The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy St. Patrick's Day Scavenger Hunt

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Welcome to The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy-St.Patrick's-Day Scavenger Hunt. "What is The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy-St.Patrick's-Day Scavenger Hunt," you ask?

Well to start with it's a scavenger hunt.

"Tell me more about the incredibly-low-maintenance-easy-peasy portion," you say.

With most scavenger hunts, you have to find one clue that leads you to another, which leads you to another, which leads you to you saying, "OHMYGERD! I haven't done any work all day! My project has crashed and burned! Oh the humanity!"

However, with The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy-St.Patrick's-Day Scavenger Hunt, there are five self-contained riddles. You can try all five. Or you can do just one. Or two. Or three. Do I have to keep going?

Every hour, on the hour, a new clue from Larry the Leprechaun will be released. If you want to play, follow these instructions:

* Puzzle on the clue a little bit.
* Search high and low on the third and fourth floors.

* When you find the answer to the riddle, look nearby for a St. Patty's day sticker. LEAVE THE STICKER WHERE YOU FOUND IT.

* Send Cliff an email with two pieces of information: 1) The answer to the riddle, and 2) A description of the sticker that you found.

* At the end of the day, I'll put all the correct entries into Larry the Leprechaun's hat. If we pull out your name, you'll win a fabulous(?) prize.

Ready for the first puzzle? Let's meet Larry the Leprechaun!

Larry the Leprechaun's Offsite Scavenger Hunt

Welcome to Larry the Leprechaun's Offsite Scavenger Hunt, exclusively for you folks not working in the Seattle office today. Here's how it works:




* This video clue will (hopefully) lead you to a specific Accounts folder on the server.
* Open up the folder; if you're correct, you'll see a file named something like "St Patty Treasure"
* Open up that file to find the next clue.
* Leave the file there!
* There's a total of five clues in all. When you complete the fifth one, follow the directions in the attached document.
* You have until 2pm PST to finish. I'll take all the correct entries, put them into Larry the Leprechaun's hat, and pull out one name. The winner gets a fabulous St. Patty's prize!
* You could just go through all the folders until you found all the clues...I guess. But then you'd be on Larry the Leprechaun's bad side. And nobody wants to see that.


Have fun!

Help Cliff win a contest and he'll make up a song for you

Hey friends. If you help me win a social media contest at work, I will write a customized song just for you, record it, and post it to Youtube, making you famous beyond your wildest dreams.

Here's the dealio. 

Step 1:  Visit my Twitter page or my Facebook page and look for a post that says something like, "Interact with this post in any way & Cliff will make you a customized Youtube song."

Step 2: Interact! You can retweet, repost, "like", make comment--whatever. I get a point for every interaction.

Step 3: Sit back and wait for your song.


Here's the backstory:

The Garrigan Lyman Group (where I work) is producing a webcast on our success with a social media campaign we did for Babolat when international tennis superstar Li Na retired. FYI, I worked on this campaign and even came up with the little hand sign! I know! Pretty fancy, right?

Anyway, we're having a contest at work--Whoever can get the most social media interactions (shares, retweets, comments, reposts, etc.) involving this webcast will win a prize. Do I know what the prize is? Nope. But I sure like winning contests.

And, if you have a little time and interest, check out the webcast Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST. http://glg.xyz/1GQqsBr

Here's the first video I made, for my lovely bride, Jill:

Episode 4: Dr. Thaddeus T. Punmeister goes head to head with Watson

Less than 80 minutes away to the party...let's keep the good times rolling.

To which I replied:

Scott Hurst had this to say:

Dr. Punmeister responds:

Deb Hoffman chimed in:

Dr. Punmeister had a quick response:

Finally, we've been working with IBM Watson so much, he wanted to help me out with the video. Way to go, Watson!

Here's the text, in case you can't understand him.

You have to see Sneh’s’s costume…it’s a UXer’s dream come true. But be careful…she might be an Axure murderer. Axure? Get it? You know.. that program UXers use? Ha. Ha. Ha.

Scott Scheff is Plaid Man. I couldn’t figure it out at first and I was TARTAN to get worried. TARTAN to get worried. Tartan. Ha ha ha ha ha.

Hope to see you all at 3pm. And If I don’t see you in person, I know you will be here in spirit. Spirit! Halloween! Ha ha ha ha ha.

Episode 3: Dr. Thaddeus T. Punmeister checks out some more costumes

More Costumes at the Garrigan Lyman Group

Halloween at GLG is going great this year. I've seen a lot of great costumes. But first, I'm going to answer some mail. And then, I'm going to answer some FEmails. Ha!

Here's the first half of an email I received from Carmela:

But it was the second part of her NOTE that really settled the SCORE:

Good times.

Freelance designer Jillian Poppe had this to say:

It helps to know that Jillian is sporting a sweet "Wayne Cambell from 'Wayne's World'" costume.

Jillian, I just want you to know that your message filled my heart with rhapsody...BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, that is. HA!

Here's some more GLG costume updates:

Episode 2: Dr. Thaddeus T. Punmeister answers some mail

Wow! The response to the first episode of the blog has been amazing. Almost three people have written in. Let's go to the mail bag...or (since it's Halloween), the mail HAG. Get it? Because hag is another word for witch. HA! Hilarious!

Here's a note from Richard Merz.

To which I responded:

Get it? MERZY. HA! Hilarious!

Deb Hoffman wrote in from Colorado (Let me tell you...when I got her letter, I was feeling MILE HIGH! Because of Denver...HA!) This is what she had to say after watching my first video:

To which I responded:

Anyhoo, here's another costume update:

Dr. Thaddeus T. Punmeister: Episode 1

Happy Halloween, GLG

Dr. Thaddeus T. Punmeister can't wait to party with all you heroes and villains today. See you on the third floor...or if you're a pig, I'll see you on the third BOAR.

Get it? Boar rhymes with floor.

HILARIOUS!

Don't worry. There's a LOT more where that came from.