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Friday Funny: Don’t Be Left in the Dark
Time for our Friday Funny! It’s been a short 4-day work week in the U.S., but it’s still good to look at the calendar on Friday. Let’s celebrate the end of the week with a little humor.
Here’s how it works: We provide the cartoon (drawn by Diane Alber, our favorite data center cartoonist) and you, our readers, submit the captions. We then choose finalists and the readers vote for their favorite funniest suggestion. The winner will receive their caption in a print signed by Diane. Please visit Diane’s website Kip and Gary for more of her data center humor. Congrats to last time’s winner Anthony Parkes of The Schofield Centre, who submitted, “Water cooling is the way forward.”
Below is our “Dark Squirrel” cartoon for the Data Center Knowledge caption contest. Kip and Gary are getting in trouble again!
Diane writes: “I was shocked to hear that squirrels had been a culprit of some major data center outages over the years. So I thought, why not create a comic about it.”
Add your caption that best fits the cartoon below in the comments. You could be a winner!
To see our previous cartoons, visit the Humor section on Data Center Knowledge.
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.
He should use mouses on running wheels to generate clean power instead of squirrels !!
Dude- Put down the coffee cup and grap my tatical assault shot gun in Cabinet 34 Row H
dday
Posted September 7th, 2012Who says geeks dont have a night life?
@InsiderThreats
Posted September 8th, 2012Inside The White House Data Center, its a challenge controlling the “Secret Squirrels”.
Our new four factor authentication security system is not working: something you have; something you know; something you are; and a squirrel.
Frank
Posted September 8th, 2012Oh my, I know we go above and beyond for our boss, but pest control was *not* in our job description.
Who hit the EPO switch?
StevieG
Posted September 9th, 2012Oh, I thought it was unusual when they said the SQ(uirre)L server was going nuts.
Anthony
Posted September 9th, 2012Not Again….
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Skip
Posted September 10th, 2012“Let’s just hope he knows how to fix it when you catch him”
Rick Ross
Posted September 10th, 2012Keep it up Gary, he looks tired…
Pablo Leija
Posted September 10th, 2012Hopefully with the lighting savings the company hire the expert SQuirreL
AJ
Posted September 10th, 2012This is how data center techs eat lunch in Oregon…
Caption Contest: Don’t be left in the dark - Kip and Gary
Posted September 10th, 2012[...] I was shocked to hear that squirrels had been a culprit of some major data center outages over the years. So I thought, why not create a comic about it Click here to enter data center knowledge where they provide the cartoon and their our readers, su… [...]
Mike S
Posted September 10th, 2012I knew I should have used some of that vacation time I squirreled away…
What do you mean he’s after my Cage nuts? gulp !
Kevin J
Posted September 11th, 2012Who will believe a squirrel hit the EPO?
Hey, at least we know the backup light works!
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September 7th, 2012