Reply #52: Here is what I did...

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I was working at Cymer in San Diego. In the cafeteria, all the TV's were tuned to Fox.
The person is charge of the TV's was the safety rep. and he was a retired Navy officer,
very conservative, very right-wing. No wonder he kept it on Fox. The TV's were controlled
by a DirecTV STB in a locked cabinet in the cafeteria.

I purchased a cheap Universal Remote Control, and programmed it for DirecTV.
Every time I had lunch in the cafeteria, I would covertly take the universal remote, sit
in front of the locked cabinet, and change the channel to either MSNBC, CNN or ESPN,
depending and which had the best programming.

The retired Navy officer would enter the cafeteria, and stare with a puzzled look at the
TV, trying to figure out how the channel was changed. He'd leave for about 2-3 minutes
and return with the key to the locked cabinet and change the channel back to Fox. Then
while walking back to his office, still in the cafeteria, I'd change the TV back to the
channel we were previously watching.

You could see his brain explode with confusion, trying to figure out how the channel was
changing if the Remote Control was locked in the cabinet.

Several like minded friends, knew about my remote control and would sometimes ask to borrow
my universal remote, while they ate in the cafeteria.