{"id":13443,"date":"2010-07-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/07\/13\/tips-for-planning-your-ship-party\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T10:25:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T18:25:42","slug":"20100713-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100713-00\/?p=13443","title":{"rendered":"Tips for planning your ship party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not saying how I know these things. Just making a little list for reference.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you plan on staying dry, do not hold the party near a fountain. (Note that fountain avoidance is a necessary but not sufficient criterion.)<\/li>\n<li>Corollary: If your team members have an armory of super soaker water cannons, and you plan on staying dry, then absolutely do not hold the party near a fountain.<\/li>\n<li>Unrolled spools of bubble wrap are a poor choice of equipment when trying to climb from the lobby to the upper floor balcony.<\/li>\n<li>After discovering that bubble wrap is unsuitable for climbing, do not upend a glass table in an attempt to gain a higher starting point.<\/li>\n<li>A contest to see who can run and break through a plaster wall is not a recommended choice of impromptu amusement.<\/li>\n<li>Do not throw a couch from the upper floor balcony. Not even if it&#8217;s on fire.<\/li>\n<li>Costco underwear does not count as swim trunks.<\/li>\n<li>Do not have a tug of war over a vat of Jell-O.<\/li>\n<li>The expensive sculpture outside your building is not a water storage tank in need of refilling.<\/li>\n<li>Exercise caution when driving your motorcycle through the halls. The carpet damage from your burnout can be repaired, but the patches never really look the same.<\/li>\n<li>On the day of the ship party, do not wear a nice suit. You might be thrown into the back of a pick-up truck and buried in ice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Bonus<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/archive\/blogs\/cellfish\/having-a-ship-party-at-microsoft\"> Other lessons learned<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not saying how I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-13443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Not saying how I know.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}