“Because life IS orthogonal” – this is going to be interesting…

Well – here’s something that WILL achieve the goal of making me look like an idiot – which is of course part of the fun :-)

We thought the idea of an episodic “Chad’s World” would be a fun way to talk about new tech, and I’ll never pass up an opportunity to do something ridiculous…   Yes, I know how patently silly the idea is, and believe me, I’m not letting it go to my head.  When you see it, you’ll understand why…like I said…I’m an idiot :-)

Here’s the teaser…  

That last frame is a reminder… “Never challenge the film crew to find and emphasize the frame that makes one look the most goofy – they WILL do it” :-)

It is really fun to do to:

• I can’t believe the set they built – there are embedded details all over, and yeah, it’s kinda like my real basement :-)
• The “Cyclon VMAX” stuff posted earlier was the Symm engineering team and Dave Robertson rigging up the Symmetrix to talk in one of the episodes.  We had all kinds of lightbars, with all sorts of patterns – was fun…   In the end, it was the ACTUAL production lightbar that VMAXes use with a little jiggery-pokery on the ASIC that controls it :-)
• The stuff we’re demoing is really mind-blowingly cool stuff.    There are things no one in the public world has seen yet. 
• The theme song is what we were recording in the blog post here.   The lyrics and music are a Nick Weaver, Fred Nix and Patchwerk studios creation, with many of the “Chadisms” that people make fun of me for built in :-)  We thought it would be fun to have a lot of the team participate directly – so the voices are those of many vSpecialists, who, except for Weaver, are frankly pretty weak on musical skillz :-)

It’s all in good fun.   We’ve recorded a couple episodes themed around big news, and will keep on trucking as long as it’s funny, entertaining and educational – which I hope is a long time.

You’ll see the first episode very soon on December 19th, and the second one early in the new year.   We’ll be constantly inviting customers on the show – so if you’re interested, ping me, comment here, or watch “Chad’s World”!

See you there!

P.S….

orthogonal adj

1. (Mathematics) relating to, consisting of, or involving right angles; perpendicular

2. (Mathematics) Maths

a.  (of a pair of vectors) having a defined scalar product equal to zero

b.  (of a pair of functions) having a defined product equal to zero

3. (Chadism) Something Chad Sakac says when he’s trying - in his longwinded, pedantically verbose way – to describe multiple things that are related topics, but independent in every way, like storage efficiency technologies (see example halfway through this post here)

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Looking forward to those episodes Chad!

Hello from Spain ;) I´m a great fan of your blog!