As geeks, we never miss an opportunity to Star Wars-ify stuff at Shopify. Meet our kettle, R2-Tea-2.

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This image actually had me rolling out of my chair laughing. Click it to see it at full size:

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It’s a busy, meeting-filled day for Yours Truly down at the local headquarters for The Empire. Here’s a (slightly edited) photo that I took at our big Evangelism team meeting around 3:30 this afternoon:

Photo courtesy of Matt Gunn.

Even though it’s been almost four months since I’ve joined Microsoft, I’m still asked the question “Joey, why did you join the Dark Side?”

There are many reasons for joining the Dark Side. One of them is that the Rebels are sick, sick puppies:

Card courtesy of Ben Congdon.

Happy Valentine’s Day. my fellow nerds!

As of this writing, you’ve got just over 10 hours to get the R2Decaf T-shirt before it’s gone forever tonight (January 19) at midnight. It sells for a mere USD$9 at TeeFury.

It’s a busy day for me: I’m gearing up for my first presentation on behalf of "The Empire", which will happen at Microsoft’s TechDays event in Calgary (Wednesday, December 10th and Thursday, December 11th). More on that in a later post.

In honour of this preparation, I thought: here’s an opportunity to riff on the theme of “The Empire” (and to provide you with some reading material)  — I can present the storybook version of Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope. Of course, back in those days, it was known simply as plain ol’ Star Wars.

The book came with a vinyl record that was meant to be played along with the book; I’ve included its audio below in MP3 format:

• The Story of Star Wars, Part 1
• The Story of Star Wars, Part 2

The voice work on the record is terribly off – whoever’s playing Darth Vader sounds more like Count Dracula, but you have to keep in mind the book was released in 1979, well before Star Wars had firmly established itself as part of the pop culture canon. Enjoy!

I couldn’t rightly call this blog Global Nerdy without mentioning Darths and Droids, a webcomic that in which Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is presented as a role-playing game session. It actually makes a lot of sense when you look at it that way.

As both a dog person and an aficionado of science fiction action flicks, this photo amuses me to no end:

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood will tell you that there’s nothing like a computer you build yourself, and as the Star Wars comic below shows, it applies to droids you built yourself too:

There will be more substantive tech articles soon, I promise. But I can’t resist posting a photo titled Slave Leia Pillow Fight…

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

Update: Here’s the original photo, and you’ll find more in this Flickr photoset.