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Friday Funny: The Wiring Fairies
It’s Friday and time for a little levity at Data Center Knowledge before we head off for the weekend. We invite all our readers to submit captions that best fits the cartoon below.
For our previous cartoon – the Data Center Bubble, the winner is Sarah Pollock, who submitted, ” What you see here is called the Hubba Bubba package, but we also sell the Double Bubble package and the Bubblesphere packages for our large customers like yourselves.” Congratulations, Sarah!
Diane Alber, our data center cartoonist, explains how she came up with this week’s cartoon, “I got this idea while talking to a mechanical/electrical engineer that referred to the infrastructure wiring as ‘fairy wiring.’ It made me laugh so I thought I would take on my own interpretation of the phrase ‘fairy wiring.’ This goes back to one of my blog posts where I had to explain what I do for a living, everyone knows what electrical wire is and they understand without it a light bulb wouldn’t work, but for some reason with all the wireless we have going on I think a lot of people think the Internet just ‘magically appears’ if you stuck with that theme it would make sense that the wiring would be done by fairies. . .So I just had to do a comic about it!”
The Data Center Knowledge caption contest works like this: We provide the cartoon (drawn by Diane Alber, whose website is KipandGary.com) 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 signed print by Diane.
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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.
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Wiring Your Data Center….Caption Contest - Kip and Gary Data Center Comics
Posted October 6th, 2012[...] I got this idea while talking to a mechanical/electrical engineer that referred to the infrastructure wiring as ‘fairy wiring.’ It made me laugh so I thought I would take on my own interpretation of the phrase ‘fairy wiring.’ This goes back to one of my blog posts where I had to explain what I do for a living, everyone knows what electrical wire is and they understand without it a light bulb wouldn’t work, but for some reason with all the wireless we have going on I think a lot of people think the Internet just ‘magically appears’ if you stuck with that theme it would make sense that the wiring would be done by fairies. . .So I just had to do a comic about it! CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE CONTEST! [...]
Makl
Posted October 7th, 2012And you said the union reps wouldn’t be able to find qualified replacements during the strike! Where’s my 10 bucks…
Mathew
Posted October 7th, 2012Perfect, guess I know who will be hanging my Chirstmas lights this year.
Jonathan Mann
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AJ
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Frank
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dday
Posted October 9th, 2012Boy when you said the new guys were fairies, I reported you to HR…. sorry
Dday
Posted October 9th, 2012Don’t worry they’re good at cabling, it the grounding ESD straps that they have a problem with
Digger
Posted October 10th, 2012Do they do Windows?
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October 5th, 2012