Before I forget, let me wish you all a happy Chinese New Year! This year, it’s the Year of the Ox, so it’s only fitting that I post a picture of him:
Jon "The Ox" Entwistle, bassist for The Who.
For more on the Year of the Ox and Chinese astrology, this article at SFGate.com should help get you started.
This article was originally posted in Global Nerdy.
On Tuesday, the day that Barack Obama got sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, my 3-month probationary period at Microsoft also ended and I became a full-fledged Microsoft Developer Evangelist. I figured that if Obama could have a swearing-in ceremony to mark his official entrance into his new job, why couldn’t I?
As luck would have it, I was at the Vancouver Convention Centre to speak at Microsoft’s TechDays conference, where the Microsoft logo was projected onto the waterfall on the second floor. It made a pretty good backdrop for the ceremony, which was conducted by my fellow Developer Evangelist John Bristowe. I swore my oath on a “Techie Crunch” box, a cereal box containing the swag we gave to every attendee:
This magic moment would’ve been lost forever if it weren’t for videographer, blogger and man-about-tech Warren Frey, who was recording interviews for TechVibes and caught it for posterity. Thanks, Warren! I salute you with a filet mignon on a flaming sword!
I found this poster amusing – click it to see a larger version:
The title of this photo when I found it was “And now, I shall slash the Caleeefornia budget”.
PETA – the food Taliban – continue to scrape of the bottom of the barrel for ideas. Their latest campaign is Save the Sea Kittens, in which they attempt to stop people from eating fish by branding them as “Sea Kittens”.
I have bad news for you: I’m Asian, and I think of cats as egg rolls waiting to happen.
The concept of rebranding animals in order to stop people from eating them isn’t terribly original. It was done in South Park back in April 2002 in the episode Fun With Veal. In the episode, the kids try to save a herd of baby cows from being turned into veal by stealing them and demanding that the beef industry rebrand veal as “tortured baby cow meat”. In the end, they have to stop; as a result of going vegetarian, Stan breaks out in vaginas and only an infusion of meat stops him from “turning into a total pussy”.
The people at someecards are always creating timely new cards to fit the current zeitgeist, so I wasn’t surprised when they came up with plenty for tomorrow’s festivities. Click on any of the cards below to send them to a friend!
Let’s face it; people from both vote with their adrenal glands, not their brains:
someecards tries to address everyone’s greeting card needs. There’s even a card that Steve Sailer and the Bell Curve crowd would gladly send out!
