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Friday Funny: Cartoon Caption Contest
Happy Friday, everyone! It’s the new year and we are all setting goals and sticking to our New Year’s resolutions. Some of us are more successful than others. . .
Well, in this week’s cartoon by Diane Alber, our resident data center cartoonist, Kip has decided he is going to try and achieve two goals at once – exercising and saving energy. We’re just not sure how successful he is going to be.
Here’s how the caption contest works: We provide the cartoon, drawn by Diane, and you, the readers, can submit the caption in the comments below. We will then choose three finalists and the readers will have a chance to vote on their favorite. The winner will receive a signed print including the winning caption.
For more of Diane’s work, visit KipandGary.com
Submit your caption idea in our comments section.
About Colleen Miller
Colleen Miller is a journalist and social media specialist. She has more than 25 years of writing and editing experience, with her most recent work dedicated to the online space. Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data.
Matt R
Posted January 20th, 2012“I thought that flywheel vendor seemed pretty shady.”
Chris
Posted January 20th, 2012Don’t worry; the IV drip of Red Bull is on its way.
so, whats your thoughts on these 15 high end Storage arrays arriving this afternoon?
dday
Posted January 20th, 2012Kip great work, you saved 1 KW of power but the dehumidifier just died
New Caption Contest: A Workout Bike in the Data Center? - Kip and Gary
Posted January 20th, 2012[...] So it’s the new year and everyone is compiling their list for new year’s resolutions. ..As I watched the ball drop in New York on tv they did a twitter poll of the top 5 news years resolution and the two that caught my attention (not that it was surprising) was , “saving money” and “start working out”. So I figured what a better way to kick off the new year then Kip and Gary trying their new year’s resolution. It’s crazy but there are bike powered washing machines it’s called Cyclean…pretty fitting name. And everyone knows of Sherrif Joe out of Arizona that makes has immates ride bikes to watch TV….So maybe kip’s idea isn’t that bad??Click here to provide your caption! [...]
and I was so excited when I signed up for the free company fitness program
Will DeGroft
Posted January 20th, 2012Oh boy. I know money is tight, but this value engineered bike-flywheel UPS scares me.
Amy C.
Posted January 20th, 2012I was just going to change the lights in the data center…show off!
Tony P
Posted January 21st, 20121.21 jigawatts to keep this room running? I’m not sure I can peddle 88 miles per hour…
Kip’s really working for that promotion
Couldn’t we just turn up the temperature to ASHRAE guidelines to save energy, Kip?
waylon
Posted January 21st, 2012Kip, I know you like to do your lactate threshold tests in the data center but you simply do not put out enough watts to justify setting off the water detection alarm every five minutes.
David
Posted January 22nd, 2012So! How long have you worked for the MPAA?
PERL
Posted January 22nd, 2012Can you pedal a little faster? I’m getting ready to watch the final season of Lost on Hulu. . .
Steve G
Posted January 22nd, 2012I’m not sure this will fufill our backup power requirements to reach tier 4 status
Benjamin Bonnici
Posted January 22nd, 2012Wow, you just cannot catch a break with Diane at the helm, can you Kip?
Frank Bulk
Posted January 22nd, 2012I hope the power supplies have variable input ranges.
Tim
Posted January 22nd, 2012Kip, the hamsters said to pedal faster!
David
Posted January 23rd, 2012State-of-the-art no-break solution! Kip up the good work!
Didn´t they tell you? Power was restored hours ago…
Keep peddling the diesel delivery will be here any minute
Dale Stout
Posted January 24th, 2012How many KippaWatts have you generated?
Miles Auvil
Posted January 24th, 2012Pedi-bike for Petabytes
EL
Posted January 25th, 2012I’m not sure what has you more motivated, Kip… The bet with your wife as to who can lose more weight, or your annual performance review meeting next week.
Aaron L
Posted January 26th, 2012Adding features to Data Center…On-site gym, check! N+1, check! Thanks Kip!
Kara
Posted January 27th, 2012Ya know Kip, we should post a picture of this in our blog to show customers just how far we’ll go for uptime.
MatG
Posted January 30th, 2012I’m not certain you can personally claim an energy tax credit for this Kip.
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Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
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January 20th, 2012