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Funny Friday: Data Center Cartoon Caption Contest
Diane Alber, the Arizona artist who created Kip and Gary, a cartoon that’s all about the data center, is partnering with Data Center Knowledge on a cartoon caption contest. We featured her work last month and Kip and Gary proved popular with our readers. Alber’s series on data center life includes over-filled racks, colored cabinets, data center mishaps, and communication problems between facilities and IT staff. Today, we present a video that provides a look at Diane’s process as she creates the cartoon, with a time-lapse view. Below is the final cartoon with the blank bubble – with the caption to be provided by you. We challenge our readers to submit a funny thought for the bubble. Send submissions to captioncontest@datacenterknowledge.com The winner will receive a signed print of the cartoon from the artist!
Here's the completed Kip and Gary cartoon, awaiting your caption. Click the image for a larger version.
About Rich Miller
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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Posted September 23rd, 2011strange how overpowering these cravings for spaghetti are..
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Data Center Cartoon Caption Contest! And second YouTube video! - Kip and Gary » Kip and Gary
Posted September 26th, 2011[...] So this is pretty exciting, not only am I launching my second you tube video. But it is partnered with data center knowledge to do a caption contest. So far the response has been amazing. And I would love to have your ideas too! Check out the caption contest here: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/09/23/funny-friday-data-center-cartoon-caption-cont… [...]
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Posted September 29th, 2011Our Idea of future expansion didn’t worked Gary!!!!
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