Mark has been on holiday for the last fortnight. Certain arcane clauses buried deep in federal legislation dictated that Daniel and I mess with his work area while he was gone.
We pulled out a lot of the usual suspects: messing with the theme, resolution, sounds and colour scheme of his PC; taping down the button on his phone so that when he answers it, it keeps ringing; unplugging stuff, etc.
But the pièce de résistance, inspired by Gareth’s stapler in the BBC’s The Office, was setting his[1] keyboard in lime jelly.
Photos below, and his side of the story here.
[1] this is not strictly true; we bought another, similar-looking keyboard, modified it to look more like his, and set that one in jelly.