Pictures we took at Ground Zero when we visited in December of 2001.
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Bug Bash started life as an internal MS comic strip by cartoonist and program manager, Hans Bjordahl. It has a ton of great commentary on the software development process and has also been available outside MS for a while now. My favorite series of strips is a set of “Meeting Busters – Surefire ways to sink your meeting”. Within that series, there is this beautiful cell:
Some more back story: when we lived in Colorado my wife (well… girlfriend at the time) and I loved Hans Bjordahl’s comics in the University of Colorado school paper (I wasn’t going to college there, Paula was). When I started work for Microsoft I noticed the “Bug Bash” comic in our internal newspaper had the same character style (which led me to dig up the old clippings I had… and lo!). When Hans left Microsoft this year I worried we’d loose the regular dose of laughing at the software development industry but Hans has continued to write and publish Bug Bash (this was the only sentence without a parenthetical).
I was reminded of it this morning when I came across a CNet article (from February) on how the Internet is changing the business of cartoonists. Tag line:
“See you in the funny pages” takes on a new meaning for cartoon artists who are making a home on the Web.
Here are direct links to the Meeting Busters strips:
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A little bit of irony to start the week…
Fire extinguishers…
… housed in an old fireplace.
The political pundits are all arguing over the cause Americas loss of respect in the world’s eyes. Is it our hawkish executive office? Is it religious tension stirred up by extremists? No. It’s the crap we export. This is the way Irish people see America in the grocery stores over here: Rolling Rock beer and Fetzer wine. Think of it in micro-terms: America is New York and Ireland is New Jersey… all the garbage alcohol gets shipped here.
Rolling Rock: the Pinto of Beers
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You call that a cup holder?
This is a real cup holder.
Aparently Buick felt the target audience of their rendezvous would be driving around drinking bottles of wine.
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Skyler dance
Rob shows off his son’s dancing chops. Not bad for four months old.
We were at the wedding of our friend Leo and I noticed this signage at the entrance to the wedding hall.
I suppose this helps explain why I feel guilty after eating a Big Mac.
Picture courtesy of Phillip Holmes of Shane Griffin images.
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