Name That Caption Contest
Recently I decided to give away a copy of my upcoming book to the person that could come closest to guessing the initial price of a base model iPad. I had enough fun administering that contest that I have decided to do another one. This one will run for a little longer than just a few hours. In fact, it is going to run for one month in total with a few rounds of voting. With the book due to be released in March, I want to spend some time having fun leading up to the release.
At the top of this page is a banner. All you need to do is provide a caption to the photo. The person who provides the best caption will win a copy of my book and I will figure out a way to incorporate your caption into the main page. There is only one official way to enter, but you can enter as often as you want.
Post a blog entry that links back to this one, put your caption into that entry, and leave a comment to this post.
The entries close on Friday, February 12th. That weekend I will review the entries and select my favorites. Those entries will then be presented for everyone to vote during the next ten days or so. And at the end of the month I will select the winner from the top three captions that were voted on by yourselves.
If you want to participate but do not have a blog the you can either (1) leave a comment on someone else’s blog and link back to here or (2) you can drop me an email with your caption. And if you can fit it into less than 140 characters you can even tweet me your caption. But those entries are not official (which means they could be easily overlooked), so your best bet is the blog entry and the link.
I look forward to reading the captions you will think up. Good luck!
February 1st, 2010 at 9:42 am
[...] contest over at DBASurvivor.com, winner gets a copy of my upcoming book. Head over to http://dbasurvivor.com/?p=29 to learn [...]
February 1st, 2010 at 10:04 am
[...] LaRock (aka @sqlrockstar on Twitter) is holding a contest over at his book’s website, DBA Survivor: Become a Rock Star DBA, in which he asks folks to caption his website [...]
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:32 am
[...] Here’s how to enter the caption contest. Comments are disabled on this post because I don’t want people thinking they can leave a comment here and enter the contest. February 2nd, 2010 | Category: SQL Server | Comments are closed [...]
February 2nd, 2010 at 6:29 am
How many entries per blog?
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:23 am
The recovery is complete, time to reflect.
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:40 am
[...] you would like more information about the contest you can find it here. To purchase a copy of his book you can find more information [...]
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:15 pm
as many as you want!
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:17 pm
thanks Brent. I figured you would go with “This is the strangest urinal I’ve ever used”
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:55 pm
[...] LaRock from DBASurvivor.com started a “Name That Caption” contest for a picture he will be using on his site soon, and wanted a little help from his SQL buddies for [...]
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:59 pm
The Grateful DBA’s entries can be found here: http://troygallant.com/?p=329. Good luck all.
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:40 pm
[...] this post on his blog for more [...]
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:32 pm
[...] Name That Caption Contest By thehelpfuldba Recently Tom LaRock aka SQLRockstar launched a contest to promote his new book and its supporting [...]
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:34 pm
I have posted my suggestion at http://thehelpfuldba.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/sqlrockstar-name-that-caption-contest/
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:50 pm
[...] Administration — msrviking @ 12:20 AM Tom LaRock is conducting an interesting contest over here. My captions would [...]
February 2nd, 2010 at 10:10 pm
My captions listed at my blog!
February 4th, 2010 at 9:14 am
“Yeah… I’m going to have to take a taxi to get back to my car. Why did I park so far away?”
February 5th, 2010 at 7:28 am
[...] over at DBASurvivor.com will end next Friday, winner gets a copy of my upcoming book. Head over to http://dbasurvivor.com/?p=29 to learn [...]
February 5th, 2010 at 8:41 am
“I wonder if those people can tell that I’m not wearing any pants?”
February 5th, 2010 at 8:50 am
Crap, this database is more corrupt than our Accounting team.
February 5th, 2010 at 9:09 am
This mural IS pretty life-like, but I still miss working above ground.
February 5th, 2010 at 9:12 am
Mark? MARK! We asked you where you see yourself in 10 years. Hello?
February 5th, 2010 at 9:15 am
Hey! Anybody out there hiring?!? I hate it here!
February 5th, 2010 at 10:24 am
[...] Thomas LaRock, DBA Survivor, with a Name That Caption Contest. The deal is: “The person who provides the best caption will win a copy of my book,” [...]
February 5th, 2010 at 11:01 am
[...] Survivor: How To Become A Rockstar DBA“. Also, I’ve been aware of Tom’s “Name That Caption Contest” over at his book’s website but I never thought of joining the contest until I read Jorge Segarra’s entry. Basically, the [...]
February 5th, 2010 at 11:42 am
(last one, I swear) “Wow, the contractor did a GREAT job fixing the window the last DBA jumped through!”
February 5th, 2010 at 11:42 am
“We will upgrade the server when we hit the ‘wall’..
February 5th, 2010 at 11:48 am
My take on it.
February 10th, 2010 at 9:33 am
You are surviving because you are at a company with so much red tape that they’ll never fire you … short of taking a dump on your bosses desk.
You essentially do nothing that adds any value, but make yourself seem busy by making up things to do, interfering with people who can actually solve business problems, and by being irritating. It’s a terrific strategy for ‘surviving’, and it explains why you’ve been passed up for promotion time and time again.
February 10th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Mom? Glad you found my blog. Tell Dad I said hello. I’ll call you later this week.
February 10th, 2010 at 11:33 am
I belieeeeeve I can flyyyyyy…
February 10th, 2010 at 11:37 am
Coos – uh, have you seen the layoffs going around lately? It’s hard to avoid getting laid off even if you’re the hardest worker in the shop. Strategies like the one you described stopped working after the dot-com crash, at least at the companies Tom and I work at.
February 10th, 2010 at 11:48 am
My suggestion: http://wendyverse.blogspot.com/2010/02/name-that-caption-contest.html
February 10th, 2010 at 11:54 am
[...] DBASurvivor.com will end this coming Friday, winner gets a copy of my upcoming book. Head over to http://dbasurvivor.com/?p=29 to learn [...]
February 10th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Has anyone noticed that building there before?
February 10th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
So, see, I changed my mind and added another option to my suggestion.
http://wendyverse.blogspot.com/2010/02/name-that-caption-contest.html
February 10th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Ahhh… Cubes…
February 12th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
my submissions can be found at
http://tjaybelt.blogspot.com/2010/02/name-that-caption-contest.html
February 14th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
“hmmmm… I wonder if any of those businesses out there haven’t heard what a slacker I really am…”
February 15th, 2010 at 11:38 am
[...] voting poll is officially open for the DBA Survivor “Name That Caption Contest“. Head over to http://dbasurvivor.com and pick up to three of the five captions. The top [...]
February 15th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Error when you try to vote
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Timestamp: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:15:15 UTC
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February 15th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
David,
it should be working now. i couldn’t get wp-polls to work properly, so i signed up for an account with MicroPoll and configured one that way for now.
February 16th, 2010 at 10:16 am
[...] - The original post - My entries - The voting [...]