With so much talk about the cloud on blogs far and wide, it was inevitable, I suppose. Blogger Dave Graham has penned a piece, with tongue firmly in cheek, about the various “cloud personality types” that are out there, based on the DSM.
He is still updating the post. So far, my personal favorites are:
“The ‘Cloud Idiot‘ – (cloudiot) – This is the person who thinks they know more about the cloud than anyone else. They’re constantly on the prowl for the ‘what is …?’ questions on social media platforms and provide blustery responses with vapid data validation. Oftentimes, these folks are proven wrong in a rather humiliating and public fashion.
The ‘Cloud Antagonist‘ – (cloudagonist) – This is the commiserate cloud ‘hater.’ This person loves DAS storage, SANs, divided fabrics and can be found extoling the virtues of direct server management via commandline and a collection of USB sticks.”
He has asked readers to submit their own, and I look forward to seeing the comments field fill up on this one. So far, there has been one, from Matthew Glidden, who suggests the “‘Cloud Evader’ – (cloudaway) Afraid or unwilling to engage clouds and any related topics, evaders check their virtual watch and leave a vapor trail of mumbled excuses. They only bookmarks blogs and twitters that cover safe topics like ‘cuisine’ and ‘roller derby.’ Evaders create fringe attachments to cloudagonists, but keep a safe distance from any emotional opinions, pro or con, lest they disturb the cloud-free status quo. Stopped watching the Weather Channel in mid-2007.”
I encourage one and all to go to Dave’s blog and add more personalities as they come to you. I’m working on one I think I’ll call the “cloud burst…”
Sunshine,
I’d have called this a “Cloud Personality Taxonomy” but I think that Christopher Hoff would have KILLED me. got enough of these taxonomic discussions floating around already.
please feel free to send your ideas this way…I’ll keep appending if ya’ll keep sending!
cheers,
Dave
So what kind are you?
Well, with a name like Sunshine, I could say that I’m a cloud burner but that might be taken too seriously.
Ocarina could be the ‘Cloud Cruncher’ crunching its way through cloud storage chomp!chomp!chomp!