Farewell, Spanfan

Last week we said goodbye to Spanfan. She was one of our BEST.

During all the heart-felt "goodbye" stuffs, Cowboy spewed out an especially cheesy line. "When they make a 'Mount Rushmore' of Programmers, SpanFan will be on it."

I was trying to think of something our department could do for her before she left. Something a little beyond simply taking her out to lunch. Then, it hit me... she's got a five-year-old son who makes little stick-figure drawings for her all the time. She's got some posted on her desk, and others on her Facebook wall.

I emailed my idea out to the department. *We* should all make goofy little drawings for her! LadyPatsFan even volunteered to bind them into a yarn book for her.

Of course, for *my* stick figure drawing, I went back to Cowboy's cheesy statement. I created:


The Mount Rushmore of Programmers. SpanFan, Bill Gates, Gandhi, and Gandalf.

The funniest part was when I showed the drawing to my buddy Scruffy. His hyper-analytic mind broke when he saw Gandalf on there. "Gandolf wasn't a programmer!", he complained. "And Gandhi was?", I countered.

I also love that my Gandhi looks so much like Groucho Marx. It's silly, but it makes me happy.

Farewell, Spanfan! We miss you!

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"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know."
― Groucho Marx