"Danlandia"

A few months ago, as we'd just moved into the new downtown office, Ahmad was feeling separated from the rest of our team. The problem was that he was sitting on the far side of our desks and would have to walk all the way around to take part in conversations etc.

His solution was to separate my desk from Aileen's and give himself a little canal in which to pass through and visit with the rest of us. This resulted in the creation of a little island composed of my desk and 2 other empty desks, one of which housed our library. The other teams began referring to it as "Dan's Island" and that's when Corey came over and delivered my flag: Behold, the nation of "Danlandia".

I've had my flag up ever since, even though Danlandia is now populated by two developers and a library (I imagine Talesh will rename the island after I'm gone). The flag stands to my right, next to my Nerf guns (the Danlandian military) and the other "citizens": Ari, Zim, Gir, Naruto, some crazy guy with white hair and a pet frog and of course, my menagerie of plastic animals from Milestones.

Anyway, as a parting gift, my teammates at Riptown gave gave me a commemorative tshirt in recognition of the nation upon which I've served for the few months I've worked in this office. It's a lovely gesture and I'm totally gonna wear it around Europe. Thanks guys, you all rock bigtime.