It was well deserved David! That little change of rules about the last MVP does the next was my little way of reducing my workload and increasing the chances that I and the other attendees get to see the MVPs again!
Cheers Daniel From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Easter Sent: October 4, 2013 9:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 2013 MVP ** Short summary - it's all LJ's fault. :-) First off, I wanted to say how humbled I am to have won the ARSList MVP award. When I got the call from Dan that I'd been nominated and he asked me to attend WWRUG13, I saw it as a great chance to see a lot of friends again. It was a pleasant shock to have been remembered by so many on the list that the voting ended up the way that it did. I am deeply touched that you felt that I was able to help those on the list in some small way - but what you don't realize is that you helped me even more. The ARSList is the most vibrant, loyal and loving community that I've ever been part of and I learned so much about how a common vision can inspire such a sense of camaraderie and friendship. While I may have drifted away from the ARSList on a daily basis, I'll know that we'll always be together as a family. That said, here's what LJ did. During the MVP awards, he wanted to show what the nominee's do in their off hours away from work. So he put up a slide with the results of Googling the nominee's names. If you Google "David Easter", you get a British actor and a picture of David Bowie on Easter in his lightning bolt face paint. His quote was something like "and it looks like David spends the weekends shirtless wearing makeup". Afterwards, I made the offhand comment that it'd be amusing if I put on that face paint during the Thursday Night party - and a plot was formed... I've changed a bit since that early photo of David Bowie Easter was taken, so attached is a side by side comparison of the original and what I look like today. As a quick update on what I've been doing since May, I've joined a company that provides cloud infrastructure technology and services around OpenStack called Mirantis <http://www.mirantis.com/> . Given that everything is moving "into the cloud" these days, and BMC itself has a Cloud LifeCycle Management solution that was partially built on AR System, I'm sure that I'll bump into many of you professionally sooner than later. I'm told that just like Miss America, I will be required to crown next year's MVP at WWRUG14 (or the equivalent). So it even if we don't meet up in the cloud, it looks like you're _still_ not rid of me... :-) For those that I saw at WWRUG13, it was like a family reunion to see you all again - I really missed you guys. For those here on the list, thank you again for the recognition of my small contribution to this amazing community. I wish each and every one of you the best in wherever life takes you. Take Care, -David J. Easter _____ From: Susan Palmer <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 4, 2013 5:31 AM Subject: Re: 2013 MVP ** Ok David .... you don't want to scare away any non-attendee newbies with that pic and no explanation! On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Shellman, David <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org <http://www.arslist.org/> "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
