Vulture Culture

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Scott Jennings| 50 Comments

I still can’t tell you where I work. But apparently the carrion birds know.

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Yes, that is a vulture. Yes, it just landed on our patio. Yes, I think this means we’re about to be dead or targeted for some sort of buyout.

A coworker took another picture:

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  • Baroo

    Ah hah! It’s now so obvious where you work — Generic North American Business Park… in the building next to the rest of us.

  • http://eatingbees.brokentoys.org Sanya

    And you wonder why I won’t move to Texas!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Trey-Ratcliff/502475833 Trey Ratcliff

    hehe omg… that is crazy.

  • http://www.sharingatwork.com Daniel J. Pritchett

    I see yet another bird-driven SUV in the parking lot waiting to mow you down after work!

  • DoubleD

    What’s up with you and birds? If I remember correctly there was another bird that visited you at the last place?

  • http://wowpanda.blogspot.com wowpanda

    I think I saw that bird yesterday. We might be closer than you think.

  • http://britinla.wordpress.com David

    And what I notice about the picture is that was taken with a 1st gen iPhone (Based on the reflection in the window)

  • http://www.brokentoys.org/ Scott Jennings

    Nope, it’s a 2nd gen iPhone, with the vanity white case!

  • whereiswaldo

    a 2nd gen for sure.

  • Triforcer

    Well, this picture rules out Siberia and probably Zimbabwe. Someone start the pixel by pixel analysis, surely we can narrow it down even further!!

  • Raad

    Watch your eyes around those fuckers. Nasty things, them birds.

  • Briancj

    I know that building complex. :D

  • http://www.f13.net sinij

    Visit from upper management?

  • Ironwood

    That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen all week.

  • http://mu.ranter.net Mu

    It was my understanding that everybody knew that the bird is the word.

  • http://www.thisisnotacommunity.org D-0ne

  • Raad

    @Mu

    @D-0ne
    OH GOD NOT THIS AGAIN

  • Vetarnias

    D-0ne :
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184

    I will never forgive you for the rest of my life.

  • dartwick

    Well we can rule out half the country based on the surrounding trees with leaves.

  • DaveN

    I worked at a place in Houston that had vast flocks of black vultures all around the buildings. My first day on the job I was on the phone with a co-worker when suddenly I saw about a hundred of the things take to the air. My comment to a co-worker: “I’ll have to call you back. I just entered a Hitchcock movie.”

    My wife’s theory was that the vultures were proof that the energy corridor in Houston is built on one vast Hellmouth.

  • Cedia

    I hope it’s BioWare, Scott. You deserve it. :)

  • Drey

    Maybe it was just filling in for the Blue Bird of Happiness?

  • Vetarnias

    dartwick :
    Well we can rule out half the country based on the surrounding trees with leaves.

    Because Fairbanks, Alaska is renowned as a gaming studio hub.

  • Montague

    Vetarnias :

    dartwick :Well we can rule out half the country based on the surrounding trees with leaves.

    Because Fairbanks, Alaska is renowned as a gaming studio hub.

    Oh, if only…

  • Triforcer

    Oh, nice Donkey Kong Country reference too. I didn’t catch that on the first read.

  • Lucas

    It’s an evil place. Foreboding, I sense shadow all around it. The Bird is the first sign of impending doom.

    Cheers!

  • Vetarnias

    Lucas :
    It’s an evil place. Foreboding, I sense shadow all around it. The Bird is the first sign of impending doom.
    Cheers!

    I am certain that there is a hidden clue as to Mr. Jennings’ employment in this picture. Now, if it had been any ordinary bird, it could have meant anything, but since it is a vulture, that leaves only one distinct possibility.

    Microsoft.

  • http://dsob.wordpress.com/ geldonyetich

    Missed your chance to stuff and mount it. Take that, recession!

  • Drey

    @Vetarnias
    I am certain that there is a hidden clue as to Mr. Jennings’ employment in this picture. Now, if it had been any ordinary bird, it could have meant anything, but since it is a vulture, that leaves only one distinct possibility.

    Or The Register.

  • Vetarnias

    @Drey
    Ah yes, the most fascinating source of Wikipedia-bashing out there. The only reason for which I read it.

  • Jessica Mulligan

    We recognize your building and we’re coming to get you.

    And your little bird, too!

  • Drey

    Vetarnias :
    @Drey
    Ah yes, the most fascinating source of Wikipedia-bashing out there. The only reason for which I read it.

    The BOFH stories used to be quite good too but I think they’ve worn out their welcome.

  • Beene

    Nice to see the friendly EA reps stop by for a visit.

  • Raad

    @Beene
    lol

  • Jeff

    My money is on Lum working for Bioware Austin.

  • http://www.damnedvulpine.com J.

    They’re in the neighborhood, but only because 90 percent of the game development in Austin is 10 miles from Richard Garriott’s “house”.

  • hkedi

    I KNOW that building….. I lived in Austin 5-6 years ago, Definitely West side of the city, it’s pretty hilly (look at the road). I think it’s somewhere on the capital of Texas highway. possibly close to the bridge. (of course that doesn’t really help. that entire area is dotted with tech park buildings.) (BTW, have you done the haunted trails yet Scott?)

  • Zuzax

    I didn’t realize Initech moved to Austin after the fire.

  • Boanerges

    No, that’s not the bird of your impending doom, that’s EA’s new mascot.
    Wait, they’re the same? Never mind…

  • hitnrun

    He’s working on the Judge Mathis prison rape game. Confirmed.

  • http://www.f13.net sinij

    hitnrun :
    He’s working on the Judge Mathis prison rape game. Confirmed.

    Lum would find a way to make Prison Rape game into PvE co-op group experience.

  • Hatch

    sinij :

    Lum would find a way to make Prison Rape game into PvE co-op group experience.

    Patch note:
    When zoning into John’s grotto users will now see the goatse load screen in proper resolution

  • http://www.ihaspc.com Chris F

    Shoot it.

    Just in time for Easter dinner!

  • Briancj

    Zuzax :
    I didn’t realize Initech moved to Austin after the fire.

    Office Space was filmed, mostly, in Austin. So, they really didn’t move here, just relocated to another office complex. ;)

  • RichVR

    What a coincidence that both shots have the bird in the same exact pose. Cummon. Is that a stuffed bird?

  • http://ansonthegnome.livejournal.com/ Matthew Weigel

    @RichVR

    The only thing it is stuffed with is hate. Hate for us.

  • Hatch

    Matthew Weigel :
    @RichVR
    The only thing it is stuffed with is hate. Hate for us.

    They don’t hate us, we’re just a breakdown during a long trip away from being food for them!

  • Belsameth

    So I guess whomever misses a deadline or milestine will feed it then?

  • Hatch

    Man, it’s been a week since he put up an update. Maybe Lum fed the vultures himself.

  • http://crymore.de EpicSquirt

    @Hatch
    Haha, that’s what I just thought.