SysAdmin of the Year - I’m Buying you a Pizza!
04 Dec, 2006
To the winners of the 2006 SysAdmin of the Year award, Congratulations!
In the immortal words of Strongbad:
“Now that’s what I’m talking about, that was amazing! I mean.. you… I mean … I’m buying you a pizza!”
- As told to The Cheat after he created the Everybody to the Limit / Fhqwhgads video.
So if any of the winners, runners-up and honorable mention sysadmins are interested, contact us with your favorite local pizza joint and address and we’ll send you a gift certificate. Hopefully your employers reward you with some real bonuses though (see cash/money).
Winners:
Grand Prize: Michael Beck, Emerging Technologies Group
First Place: Sean Thomas, True Prism Technologies
Runners-up: Darren Barry, Micah Anderson, Dawn Lovell
Honorable Mention: Mike Jennings, Nik Keating, Russ Steffen, Denis Roy, Justin Hartwell
Contest Rules: http://www.sysadminoftheyear.com/rules
Notes:
- I’m really surprised Sean Thomas didn’t win. I mean, he risked his life to save a RAID array from a burning datacenter and then worked around the clock to get his company back up and running. Plus, he looks like he rocks out, especially in his bits and bytes t-shirt.
- All entrants in the original contest had to agree to allowing follow-up sales calls by Splunk representatives (the contest’s sponsor). This is like signing up for a magazine, because you know you’re gonna get barraged with marketing calls for years to come. I can assure all of the winners that the pizza won’t come with a side of cold-call coleslaw. (That doesn’t make any sense, but neither cold-calls nor coleslaw go well with ‘za.)
- I never like contests that have a “grand prize” and a “first place” winner. In my mind, the first place winner should get the grand prize. Thats how it was done on Bozo’s Grand Prize Game after all.
“I’m sad that I didn’t get the grand prize…”
December 5th, 2006 at 12:55 am
Coach Z says: “Hey der, dis is da Coach! It looks like deez guys did a good jorb!”
However, The Cheat had this to say: “Meh!”
December 6th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
Hi everyone thanks for the Pizza and thank you Splunk for sponsoring the contest and for the software license. I am honored to have been recognized as SysAdmin of the year 2006 runner-up and proud to be serving our country in the U.S. Air Force. No bonuses here, however, I may be making a move to the civilian side of the house soon. The fact that SSgt Joseph Burby nominated me for this award was a reward beyond my expectations…then to win runner-up…amazing!