If you're a Gearlog Radio listener, then you already know we're a bit crazy. Okay, so maybe I'm the only one that's crazy, but we do enjoy shocking people with the weirdest gadgets or gear out there. Even still, it probably won't surprise you that we also enjoy our fair share of office pranks.

For Executive Editor Vicki Jacobson's milestone birthday, we decided to do something drastic. You see, Vicki is known as our birthday fairy here at PC Magazine. She's always adorning our cubes or offices with streamers, banners, signs, even delicious pastries. While that's all cute and nice, we wanted to award her with something over the top. Okay, WAY over the top.

Luckily, she took the day off, so all day yesterday, the entire staff of PC Magazine congregated and blew up blue and chocolate brown balloons (her fave colors). As Web Producer Whitney Reynolds would describe it, "It sounded like everyone was hooked up to respirators!" Every once in awhile you'd walk by someone's cube with their head between their legs, or folks grabbing for their inhalers. And, in one instance, Features Editor Sarah Pike exclaimed, "I knew there'd be a good reason to quit smoking!" Poor Blogging Molly though: after one balloon she was on the floor.

In all seriousness, by the end of the day, we blew up over a thousand balloons (sorry, we lost count) and stuffed them into Vicki's office. Why? Because we love her so damn much! Either that, or we just wanted to get between her and her homepage.

We closed the door to her office so that this morning when she came in, she'd try to open the door and figure out why it wouldn't budge.

This morning, a couple of us waited patiently for her to arrive, camcorders and digital cameras in our hands. Yes, we caught her entire reaction on video. And, it's on YouTube.com right now! The footage in the beginning is a little dark, but wait a minute and Vicki finally manages to get in to the office and turn on the lights!

All she could say was, "OH MY GAWD!" as balloons came flying out of her office. When she wasn't looking, we pushed her into the office and closed the door. We found out later she was claustrophobic. Sorry, Vicki! And yes, those are her fingers behind the door trying to escape.

Is this the best birthday office prank or what?!?! I just hope that the unpleasant aroma of latex will clear up over the weekend. That smell is all too familiar!

Happy Birthday, Vicki!!!

The fun doesn't stop here. Check out more of our prank photos below. . . And watch the video footage too.