Looks to me like they are making a movie out of NStorm’s awesome “Elf Bowling 2 : Elves in Paradise“. Ah, that game bring such memories of the .com bubble: that X-mas you could hear its sound effects in almost ever cubicle or octapod.
Senor Developer
My job title is Senior Web Developer or something to that effect. On of my managers at iXL joked that it’s really just a typo on my business card, and it should say Señor Developer. Har har.
In any case, I think I found a perfect food commensurate with my station:
This kind of reminded me about a story somebody told me about a graphics designer that worked at iXL. This designer dude liked to get really into his “creative process”. When somebody wanted to talk to him, he would ignore that person or try to chase that person away from his octapod. You see – he was CREAAATING! He was very creative all right. At one point he was working on a website for Lucent. And he spent a lot of time creating logo images. Boy, was he pissed when the client was very unhappy with the result. On his version of the logo “Lucent” became “Lucentè”. Lucent-ey. But he still could not understand why that was wrong.
By the way, I’ve heard some disgruntled programmers refer to the red circle on the logo as
Murder at the ABA or The Pod People
There is one project that I am glad I was not on. A few people that were sitting in a octapod next to me at iXL worked on the http://www.aba.com website. It turned out to be a horrible death march. I found out about the project because one of the coders had an Asimov’s book displayed on her table (interestingly enough, I had that book in my collection).
The book in question was “Murder at the ABA”, a detective story about a murder at the American Bookseller Association convention.
Oh, if you are wondering what the “octapod” is. An octapod is this weird replacement of a standard cubicle. It looks somewhat like this:
In other news: Scient that swallowed iXL has now been swallowed by sbi. So long to Scient, Viant, Sapient jokes.