Hawaiian Shirt Gonzo Friday Top 10 List #2: Our 7 Biggest Disappointments In 2006
Note: As we mentioned last Friday, we’re going to try and post some lighthearted content on Friday afternoons to peruse when planning your weekend. Please note that all of the references in the Top 10 list are fictitious, most of them obviously so.
Last week’s inaugural Hawaiian Shirt Gonzo Friday Top 10 List was a lot of fun. But we found ourselves in somewhat of a moral dilemma: How can we position ourselves as champions of agile delivery, flexibility, and simplicity to our customers, while still remaining beholden to the conformist and somewhat archaic notion that a Top 10 list must contain 10 items.
After nearly seven days of research, I’ve come to the realization that one can capture 96% of the humor with just 70% of the list items. That saves you, my dear reader, from the long and burdensome slog through those three superfluous Top 10 items whose very being epitomizes the Law of Diminishing Returns.
Imagine that, a Top 10 list that’s 30% lighter. Anyway, here we go:
Hawaiian Shirt Gonzo Friday Top 10 List #2:
Our 7 Biggest Disappointments In 2006 (so far)
2006 has been a good year so far. We have a bunch of ProjectPipe users all over the world, and our website and blog traffic continue to grow at a nice clip. Plus, we have some new functionality that will make ProjectPipe much more customizable. I’d also like to thank those who’ve given us constructive feedback.
Unfortunately, there were a handful of dissapointments as well. The Yan to our aforementioned Ying. As painful as they are to recollect, here are our Top 7 Biggest Disappointments:
7) Walt Mossberg’s Review: “It’s like Flickr, but without all of the pictures”
6) Everyone missed our Superbowl ad depicting Abe Vigoda as the new frontman for Phish.
5) Our worst fears from last week’s list have materialized: We’ve been characterized in the mainstream media as mean and judgemental for the inclusion of Role-based Security and Auditing respectively
4) The minor altercation with Nintendo’s Mario, because no members of Cartoon Plumbers Union Local 123 were involved in the creation of the ProjectPipe logo.
3) Stephen Colbert still holds to his schedule of making Pennsylvania’s 13th district (The Fightin’ 13th) the 434th installment in his 434-part series “Better Know a District” on The Colbert Report. Based upon my calculations, that could take…..months of sitting through shows about far lesser districts before it finally airs. Stephen, you’re on notice!
2) We got an email from Fred Brooks last week advising us to add about 20 developers to hit our 2/28 release. That’s not a good sign.
1) We know that Joanie Loves Chachi, but evidently not enough to buy him a ProjectPipe workgroup subscription for Valentine’s Day.
Have a good weekend,
Mike