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Friday May 02, 2008 Favourite Free Fun Geek Cartoons to Cheer you up!
World economy bad? Financial results lower than expected? Stock price down the toilet? Or just bad weather?
No need to worry, last time I checked, after rain, always came the Sun, and it was stronger than ever!
Meanwhile, let me cheer you up with some favourite geek cartoons of mine:
User Friendly
This strip depicts the life of the heroic employees of an ISP called "Columbia Internet". It's something like the Dilbert of sysadmins, if you will. Lots of fun references to geek culture. And if you travel often by plane, you'll enjoy the strip above, it's ah, so true... For more background, read the Wikipedia entry on User Friendly.
XKCD
Above you see the future of the Solaris Network Auto-Magic (NWAM) feature. How could the author know? xkcd is "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language", and very funny. It became famous for it's depiction of online communities as a world map. Read more about xkcd in its about page.
Geek and Poke
...and now you know the real reason why Peter and I like to drive Enterprise 2.0 at Sun :). Geek and Poke is another self-published cartoon by a guy from Hamburg called Oliver Widder.
All of these cartoons come with a license to make them redistributable, so I'm glad I could put some of my favourite strips on this page and I hope they have cheered you up a bit :). If you want some more fun, it's easy: Just click on the cartoons above to see more. But be careful, they are addictive...
What other great geek cartoons did I miss? What are your favourites? Leave a comment!
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This entry was created on 2008-05-02 13:42:54.0 PST and is associated with the following tags:
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Wednesday September 19, 2007 Say Hello to our new Web 2.0 Bunny
"Hello, my name is Constantin and I have a cyber-bunny." This is probably something I'll say during the next "Geeks anonymous" meeting after my wife forces me to see a shrink or something...
Anyway, meet our new guest at the Gonzalez home: Nabomuk! As you can see, he is a rabbit-ish looking little plastic high-tech fella. I didn't find a carrot this evening but he seems to like bananas, too.
Nabomuk is a Nabaztag, a new breed of Web 2.0 rabbits that are currently multiplying all over the world. They're a clever new "connected object" idea by a n innovative french company called Violet. A Nabaztag tells the weather and stock market trends, it can receive messages (Meet me on Facebook to try it out) and read RSS feeds and there's an API to program your own stuff for. It performs Tai-Chi with it's ears multiple times per day (this is not a joke), tells the time and it comes with an RFID reader that it uses to "sniff" objects. What a fun little gadget!
Of course, most of the rabbit is happening at some datacenter somewhere in the world. According to the Nabaztag entry in Wikipedia, the Nabaztag Website experienced serious service disruption problems after being overwhelmed by the many Christmas 2006 NabazTransactions. See? We told you we developed UltraSPARC T2 and Solaris with a purpose in mind! So if you happen to know anybody at Nabaztag, or if someone from Nabaztag is reading this blog, we have just the right solution for your datacenter...
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Thursday August 09, 2007 Get Simpsonized!
Yesterday evening, I was simpsonized! The result can be seen to the right.
A brilliant viral marketing plot by Burger King and the Simpsons Movie.
Actually, the process is quite sophisticated. It involves sending a photo of yourself with good contrast and answering some simple questions and you'll get a pretty good approximization of your inner Simpson. I wonder if they use Java Advanced Imaging?
You then get the chance to modify your Simpson character, I still need to work on my hair...
Get simpsonized here!
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Wednesday July 25, 2007 Now That's What I Call Rock-Solid!
Check out this story from systemhelden.com. A system admin enters their datacenter, only to find this scene of a crushed floor and a fallen rack full of Sun equipment. This must have happened some time ago, only the sysadmin didn't notice it because all of the servers were still running as if nothing happened! Later, Sun services checked every system in the rack and the only fault they found was a simple harddisk failure.
Sun systems have a reputation for being rock-solid, no doubt...
P.S.: "Systemheld" translates to "system hero". Systemhelden.com is a community for the unsung system admin among us, in constant danger to be disbudgeted by moronic beancounters and haunted by incompetent lusers. Sometimes, their only defense is a LART-Whip.
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