My doppelganger
Sometimes I worry about my doppelganger. I found him online a while back and I’m not sure what to do about it.
The whole thing started when some of the developers and I were discussing what to do when an engineer breaks our weekly code build. My thought was to acquire a giant “Shame Penguin” stuffed animal and move it into the already limited real estate of their cube until some other poor bastard broke the build. Mind you, I randomly pulled the term “Shame Penguin” out of my oddly cluttered brain.
Anyway, we went online to try and buy the appropriately/annoyingly sized shame penguin. Googling Shame Penguin, however, returned a frightening result:
From http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/222986341/
Wearing “The Penguin of Shame”
I pity the fool who breaks the build ..
Scary right? Some random guy working for British Telecom in London, already had the same thought of a freakin’ shame penguin to punish whoever breaks the build!! I’d accept that shame penguin is some sort of universal concept ingrained in all of us at an instinctual/genetic level, but applying that specifically to build breakers is just too much. I think we can safely assume that the guy who put this together is my doppelganger.
Dop·pel·gäng·er /ˈdɒpəlˌgæŋər; Ger. ˈdɔpəlˌgɛŋər/ –noun
a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
Here he is:
This brings up a very troubling concept. If I have a doppelganger, one us of clearly must be evil (See Star Trek for clarification). Now, I know many of you would immediately assume its me, but consider his beard. Facial hair is usually the obviously indication of evilness between doppelgangers.
I’m considering contacting him in spite of Doc Brown’s admonishments to not screw around with space time continuum. The whole thing is very troubling. I’ll probably just continue monitoring him for overtly good or evil behavior. At least then I’ll know where I fit into the cosmic scheme of things.
