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Yay!
Or not so yay, for those of us who rely on outsourced Chinese programmers and now those programmers are out on vacation for the next week despite two projects being due at the end of the month. Yay. Oh well, lets me get my flippers wet in actually programming rather than managing for a change since I now have nobody to manage… been a while, I’ve spent more time holding meetings and writing design documents over the past year than I’ve spent hacking code, but hey, a penguin doesn’t forget how to swim in the bits and bytes, heh!
– Badtux the “Wish I got those kinda vacations” Penguin
This would really screw up scheduling when you need to put together machines for a customer and all of the vendors in Asia shut down for a week. It took a while to build it into the supply chain, and the Asians wouldn’t mention it when taking orders, it would come up when the orders didn’t show up, like it was a big surprise to everyone.
That’s supposed to be a rat? I’m not seeing the resemblance.
The rat is only the left half of the drawing. It is more realistic than their dog graphics.
Based on the 12-year Chinese cycle, I’m a yellow rat. I’d better stay here; I prefer being a yellow dog.
There are different cycles for the animals and the colors. The animals are on a 12 year cycle, but the colors are shorter, maybe five years. Also remember that if you were born in the late winter to early spring, you may have been in a different year in the lunar cycle than your solar year.
I’m still not seeing a rat. Looks more like a panda bear.
That may be why they write “rat” next to it.