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Waldganger's birth announcement thread reminded me of the birth announcement that I wrote for our daughter, Ruby, almost eight years ago:
This announcement embarrassed a couple somewhat senior people at Adobe who didn't read it carefully, and sent out a congratulatory email under the assumption that it was an announcement for a genuine Adobe product.
Always remember: the word "assume" is an acronym.
Subject: Project "Ruby" released on schedule!
I'd like to bring you all up-to-date about a not-so-well-known Adobe project code-named "Ruby," which was the result of close collaboration between Adobe's Type and Acrobat teams. Unlike most projects within Adobe that typically suffer from sometimes extreme schedule-slippage, this project was one of the first that was released on-time, according to its original schedule.
Ruby's release schedule, as determined by Dr. Elizabeth Wu of Release Engineering, was April 6th, 2000. These dates were placed into OPUS, and tracked. We are very pleased to announce that Ruby was released ahead of schedule.
Digby Horner, Senior Director of Engineering Technologies, recently was quoted, "I am ecstatic that the development of 'Ruby' was kept on-track from the moment of inception, and in fact was released early. This proves that product development can be done according to schedule, as indicated by OPUS. It gives me this 'warm and fuzzy' feeling inside." Mr. Horner further stated, "I appreciate the quality of 'Ruby', and am confident that the product's life-cycle will be very long. Definitely a win-win situation for Adobe and its customers."
"Ruby" was officially released on March 23rd at 6:53PM, and the final product weighed 7 pounds and 3 ounces (3.25 kilograms). However, the weight of this product is expected to increase over time. The two engineers involved on this nine-month project, Hitomi Kudo (Manager of Acrobat Quality Engineering) and Ken Lunde (Manager of CJKV Type Development), are very happy that this flagship product has been released, and have decided to take a short break to look after "Ruby." Well, they're Ruby's parents after all.
This announcement embarrassed a couple somewhat senior people at Adobe who didn't read it carefully, and sent out a congratulatory email under the assumption that it was an announcement for a genuine Adobe product.
Always remember: the word "assume" is an acronym.
