Google and Pac Man

For those of you who didn't visit the Google homepage on Friday, 21 May 2010, I believe you missed one of the more innovative Google homepage designs. The page was dedicated to honour Pac Man's 30th anniversary.  I saved a screnshot of the homepage and was just lazy (as usual) to make a post out of it, until an incident at work really cracked me up.

 
I work at the library in my university, as the first point of contact for IT related issues on campus. I basically deal with issues ranging from, "Where is the Num-Lock Key" to managing issues with the university printing system.

There is a particularly funny Bangladeshi girl who frequents the library computers. She is notorious among my co-workers for her ridiculous questions, mostly because of her lack of knowledge in using computers. She came into the library today, just like any other day logged into the computer at a distance from me. Few minutes later, the girl is frantically running towards my desk, "I just wanted to search something on Google, but something happened to the computer! There is some black stuff that is moving. I think there is a virus on my computer!!"

At first, I didn't quite understand what was happening. In this confusion, she happened to peek onto my screen and turns out I was on the Google homepage myself. She goes, "Thats it! I also have that. What is that??"

I couldn't help but crack up along with some other students around who overheard her question. I thought the incident was equally worth archiving :)

PS: I wonder if she is hooked on to Pacman now. I should go check.