February '07 - 16 Dozen Cans on the Wall

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February 2007

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There are no where near as many pictures as last year in this month's issue. But hey, who's counting. Hopefully as the function of our camera improves, the number of pictures taken will increase. However, in the meantime you can expect more pictures from "guest photographers."

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Section 1:
16 Dozen Cans of Soda on the Wall

This album represents the culmination of about 5 months of work by a half dozen people. So it took three cameras to properly document the event, so we'd like to thank everybody who let us borrow their pictures. Now, for some backstory:

Jeremy and Greg were drinking a lot of soda. So we all decided to put the accumulated cans to use. We needed a target: Brad.


Initially, the cans were slow to accumulate. However, we bought some hot glue and began to assemble them covertly in Jeremy's room.
	Here, Greg sketches out the final plan: a door baricade to fit snugly in Brad's doorframe while he's not looking.
Oh, the humanity. Or, rather, calories. Check out this montage of pictures, showing about 1/3 of the progress we made.
	Look at that self-supporting wall. VERY NICE!
Greg gets in on some of that hot hot glue action.
	Then, 5 months after the cans began to accumulate, it was go time.
Fortunately, it had been assembled in 4 easy to transport sections for a wonderfully modular can/wall experience.
	People looked on in awe as we passed with our prefabricated can sections. Mitch was especially taken aback.
Waiting for the elevator.
	Riding upwards... in style.
Upon our arrival on the third floor, we proceeded to assemble the parts into two sections for quick and stealthy final positioning.
	We needed to make sure everything was straight and level.
A test fit couldn't hurt.
	And then we were ready to move in for the kill. Here, Peter queues up in the hall. If you look carefully, Jeremy is fixing Peter's camera in the only way that really works: smacking it a few times.
GO! GO! GO!
	Piece 1...
...piece 2 and some tape...
	...and ta-da. Check out all its majesty.
And Jeremy in his 'kercheif and Greg in his cap had settled their butts for a long Winter's sitting around until Brad and Elaine finish watching The Amazing Race.
	Yep... now, we play the waiting game. That's right, The Waiting Game, new from Parker Brothers.
I think I hear something...
	Look, it's Brad himself!
And Elaine!
	And, of course, all of the conspirators had to get their picture taken to immortalize the moment.
And we're not mean people, and Brad knew that it was all in good fun, so after we all had a good laugh we made sure to put the cans back in a relatively convenient position.
	Just for reference, the hole is head sized. Yeah.