[rescue] SGI Fuel

[Andrew Weiss]

On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 02:33 AM, Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:
>

> Heck, the names O2, Indigo, Octane, Onyx, Crimson, Origin, I love'em
> all. It definitly kicks Major Butt(tm) to have one of these
> purple/blue/green/whatever beasts sitting on your desk when a
> Micro$oft-fan comes by and ask what it is.
> "It's far beyond you imagination", I usually reply. :-)
>

 From the Linuxworld Expo Conference on Linux in the film studios... 
Dreamworks SKG is hiring (among other things sysadmins).  The guy I 
talked to said I could forward my resume to him... two dilemmas...1. 
they're in California and my girlfriend has a wonderful job she started 
recently 2. they're moving totally to linux on commodity hardware... 
which brings me to point 2.  They are getting rid of all their SGI 
hardware.  I saw a sad photo of piles of O2's, Octanes, Origin 200's, 
etc. in the hallway.  He actually told me to ask him about them as well 
as send my resume.  Heh and they were saying something about how with 
SGI they changed hardware every 5 years and now they change it every 
year... (as if hardware churn is a good thing [tm])  Working for a 
renegade animation film studio (love how they poke fun at Disney... and 
love Shrek) would still be cool.  Dream job would be at Pixar.... hmmm

> "Fuel" to me is a straightforward follow-up naming from O2 and Octane.
> I'm just waiting to see what the next name will be...
>
Plutonium :-)....

Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space ModulayyyyTOR!!!

Hmmm computer shaped like a stick of dynamite.... [fiber optic fuse]

Andrew