# My new cubical mate \[Halloween\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 30, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-cubical-mate-halloween/736191 "2015-10-30T17:53:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-cubical-mate-halloween/736191/1 "2015-10-30T17:53:24Z")
Seems I’ve got a new [cubical mate](https://www.flickr.com/gp/136570603@N03/AD7d58), I didn’t ask for one, but he showed up this week. For the most part he’s quiet, which is a good thing. This year we were encouraged to decorate our cubes for Halloween. I’ve got a ton of stuff at home so I brought some in. I make aeronautical charts for a living so I figured why not have him ‘helping’ me out for the week. Since he’s old I figured he wouldn’t want to do things on the computer so I hunted down the last of the hand drawing materials left around the office and gave him some work. I had to give him an ID and that’s when my inner nerd came out. So, say hello to my cube mate, [Johann Lambert,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_Lambert) creator of the Lambert conformal conic map projection, which is what we use to create our charts. We’re having a decorating contest here at work, they didn’t say that at first, and I’ve gotten lots of compliments, and no one went nerdy like I did so I’m hoping I win bragging rights at least. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-cubical-mate-halloween/736191/2 "2015-10-30T19:19:15Z")
Nice job! That mask is freaking awesome! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-cubical-mate-halloween/736191/3 "2015-10-30T20:17:56Z")
Decent prop but the way you have him set up makes him exceptional. Love it! ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-cubical-mate-halloween/736191/4 "2015-10-30T20:22:49Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Nice job! That mask is freaking awesome! > [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Decent prop but the way you have him set up makes him exceptional. Love it! Prop? Mask? I dug that SOB up! There are all sorts of little things around, I put up a cartographic book to his projection, I got a book about using aeronautical charts, and a few other things that we used to use around here. They tossed out a good amount of it a year or so ago or I would have had more. I constructed his body out of old charts, we recycle them anyway so they worked out perfect. What I should do is put him at a light table for the weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-cubical-mate-halloween/736191/5 "2015-10-30T22:41:37Z")
I was braced for some hideous looking clown or something, he’s actually kinda cute. He’s probably getting more work done than some of your co-workers. I hope you win the contest. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-cubical-mate-halloween/736191/6 "2015-10-31T04:25:23Z")
He doesn’t look cubical. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-cubical-mate-halloween/736191/7 "2015-11-02T20:19:02Z")
Damn, I lost. I lost to a guy who didn’t even decorate his own cube. I think it was rigged. Just wait til next year, no one will want to come near my cube then. :mad: