More Like VMwhere? [11]
Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Show Notes
More Like VMwhere?
Episode: 11 Published: 05/31/2022
Stories
EXT: A suburban neighborhood in front of a house with green siding and white trim. It is definitely green and not at all blue, no matter what my ex says. Our heroes are exiting the front door wearing spring appropriate garb.
CHRIS: It’s not that I don’t like cake, it’s more that I’m ambivalent towards it. Like me and cake would be great neighbors, but not friends.
NED: That’s stupid, cake is everyone’s friend. In fact…
[Ned is interrupted by a loud cracking sound as a blue lighting ball appears in front of the house that is definitely not blue. I mean it could be considered a blueish green, but primarily green. No one would mistake it for a blue house. Oh, and a mysterious figure emerges from the ball. ]
OLD MAN: Ned, Chris! Thank goodness, I’m in the right timeline. Tell me, is it Blurbuary yet?
CHRIS: Blurbuary? What are you talking about, it’s May. And how do you know our…
OLD MAN: There’s no time! I mean there’s lots of time, maybe too much. But then this must mean.. Quick, who is the president?
NED: Joe Biden
OLD MAN: Crap. And what goes on a hot dog?
CHRIS: Ketchup, naturally.
OLD MAN: No no no, crap. Crappity crap crap. Alright, last question, and listen carefully. How do you feel about cake?
CHRIS: [Begins to answer and is rudely cut off by another lightning ball.] Don’t care for…
[Before Chris can finish his sentence, the old man is sucked into the new lightning ball, which adds a blue-ish pallor to the house, which is still unequivocally green. I mean, in the proper lighting at dawn or dusk, maybe I could see it? No, no, no! This is a green house and I stand by it.]
NED: That was. Odd. Should we go get some hot dogs with ketchup?
CHRIS: Sure! And we can get some delicious pie afterwards.
NED: Sounds good. Even if we can’t agree on cake, we’ll always have pie.
VMware RIP 2022
Links:
- Broadcom to buy VMware? Smell test failed
- Email to employees from the CEO
- Broadcom investor presentation
- Strategy for Broadcom from a 2021 slide deck shows they are focused on top 600 customers. Hope you’re one of those!
- Brian Madden has feeling that are worth reading
Lightning Round
- Microsoft Build Stuff I Care About
- An AMD-powered supercomputer breaks the exascale barrier for the first time
- Microsoft Office security vulnerability identified after Microsoft decided it wasn’t a problem
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance
Hosts
Chris Hayner (He/Him)
Our story starts with a young Chris growing up in the agrarian community of Central New Jersey. Son of an eccentric sheep herder, Chris’ early life was that of toil and misery. When he wasn’t pressing cheese for his father’s failing upscale Fromage emporium, he languished on a meager diet of Dinty Moore and boiled socks. His teenage years introduced new wrinkles in an already beleaguered existence with the arrival of an Atari 2600. While at first it seemed a blessed distraction from milking ornery sheep, Chris fell victim to an obsession with achieving the perfect Pitfall game. Hours spent in the grips of Indiana Jones-esque adventure warped poor Chris’ mind and brought him to the maw of madness. It was at that moment he met our hero, Ned Bellavance, who shepherded him along a path of freedom out of his feverish, vine-filled hellscape. To this day Chris is haunted by visions of alligator jaws snapping shut, but with the help of Ned, he freed himself from the confines of Atari obsession to become a somewhat productive member of society. You can find Chris at coin operated laundromats, lecturing ironing boards for being itinerant. And as the cohost on the Chaos Lever podcast.
Ned Bellavance (He/Him)
Ned is an industry veteran with piercing blue eyes, an indomitable spirit, and the thick hair of someone half his age. He is the founder and sole employee of the ludicrously successful Ned in the Cloud LLC, which has rocked the tech world with its meteoric rise in power and prestige. You can find Ned and his company at the most lavish and exclusive tech events, or at least in theory you could, since you wouldn’t actually be allowed into such hallowed circles. When Ned isn’t sailing on his 500 ft. yacht with Sir Richard Branson or volunteering at a local youth steeplechase charity, you can find him doing charity work of another kind, cohosting the Chaos Lever podcast with Chris Hayner. Really, he’s doing Chris a huge favor by even showing up. You should feel grateful Chris. Oaths of fealty, acts of contrition, and tokens of appreciation may be sent via carrier pigeon to his palatial estate on the Isle of Man.