Comments on: Happy New Year, 4705 Wu Zhi

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:37:07 +0000

That may be why they write “rat” next to it.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:29:54 +0000

I’m still not seeing a rat. Looks more like a panda bear.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:49:04 +0000

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.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:37:42 +0000

Based on the 12-year Chinese cycle, I’m a yellow rat. I’d better stay here; I prefer being a yellow dog.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:09:37 +0000

The rat is only the left half of the drawing. It is more realistic than their dog graphics.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:14:00 +0000

That’s supposed to be a rat? I’m not seeing the resemblance.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:46:15 +0000

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.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:09:11 +0000

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