Happy cheese weasel day to all the techies out there! pic.twitter.com/SWQqF3JUFn
— Craig Szczublewski (@Aktion_CraigS) April 3, 2015
Happy cheese weasel day to all the techies out there! pic.twitter.com/SWQqF3JUFn
— Craig Szczublewski (@Aktion_CraigS) April 3, 2015
Someone gave me this at work. Ha! #cheeseweaselday pic.twitter.com/tHuHPjHLpS
— Glenn (@NTKramer) April 3, 2015
We just celebrated April Fools Day and you should be celebrating again tomorrow, even though you probably won’t.
Easter is still a couple of days away. So why should you be celebrating?
April 3 is recognized as Cheese Weasel Day. This is the world’s only widely known internet holiday. Since 1992, the day has been informally set aside to honor those people who practice the dark art of computer repair. The elusive IT guy who appears out of nowhere when viruses strike or systems fail.
When you get the blue screen of death or rainbow spinning wheel of frustration, who do you call?
Do you ever even tell them thank you when your work day returns to normal and you can pretend to be working while you browse Facebook or watch YouTube videos all afternoon? Read the rest of the article here #CheeseWeaselDay
Have you not heard Cheese Weasel Day is April 3rd?
#CheeseWeaselDay is the only internet holiday. It celebrates the contributions of techies to daily life. Do a web search and see for yourself, its a grassroots holiday that’s been around since the 90′s.
On Cheese Weasel Day (April 3rd) the Cheese Weasel delivers cheese to techies, usually leaving a slice of cheese under their mouse pads. People have office celebrations (see below, the party is already starting!), create art and generally express gratitude to techies on this fun (and cheesy) holiday.
Not sure who to send thankfulness to on Cheese Weasel Day? Anyone who helps you when your technology goes on the blink. They deserve a thanks! You’re not going to be able to give them an Apple iWatch until April 24th, so why not just slip them some cheese now?
Please consider joining the tradition for 2015, encourage your company or organization to show appreciation of tech support. Don’t wait until Skynet gains self-awareness and your tech support has to deactivate a killer sentient robot before you say thanks. Say thanks April 3rd. If you do have a celebration, please remember to use the tag #CheeseWeaselDay and let us know.
Remember, robots don’t care about cheese!
Thank you!
-Cheese Weasel
A photo posted by Tayler Casey (@taylercasey) on
Cheese Weasel Day (CWD) is the only Internet holiday. Started around 1993, CWD is celebrated each April 3rd as a fun day dedicated to appreciating people who work in the tech industry. Share this video to celebrate the contributions of your technical friends! #cheeseweaselday
The Cheese Weasel Day story started in Silicon Valley in the early 90′s. A couple out for a day in the park on April 3rd noticed a weasel carrying a piece of wrapped cheese and wondered what was going on. They decided they must have had a rare sighting of the Cheese Weasel. Their story eventually morphed into the urban myth of the Cheese Weasel who brings cheese to the good little tech industry workers, leaving a piece of cheese under their mouse pads on April 3rd.
Since that time, the celebration of the Cheese Weasel has grown and become an Internet holiday tradition that celebrates the contributions of workers in the tech industry. Tech workers get a lot of grief from people and are often under-appreciated. Cheese Weasel Day is a fun way to say thank you to them.
Over the years people have made art, music, prose and poetry to support and celebrate the myth of the Cheese Weasel. It’s all for fun and just to be nice to people who do a lot of good things for us. I like to think of CWD as the milk of human kindness, curdled. As we all know, kindness is a fondue-mental human need.
So, what’s your contribution to the Cheese Weasel Day fun going to be in 2014?
Molly Carocci is the undisputed poet laureate of Cheese Weasel Day.
The Cheese-loving Shepherd to His Love
Eat cheese with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That dills and Wensleydales and Tetillas, Or Edams or Havarti yields.
And we will sit upon a sweater,
And see the shepherds eat some Cheddar
By shallow rivers, at whose falls
Melodious birds eat Emmentals.
Read the rest of her amazing CWD poem
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