Behold: the first caption contest of 2016! A caption-writing muscle must be trained like all other muscles, and if your brain is anything like the gym in early January, you've been doggedly if resentfully elbowing others out of the way and keeping it honed and ready for just such an occasion. Fortunately, after this you have our permission to lapse into a restful torpor until this time next month. Don't worry, this month's photo is worth it.
You know the rules; you love the rules, but here they are again:
- Leave your funniest clean caption to the photo in the comments section below. We reserve the right to delete captions that we deem inappropriate. We’re not too stingy, but try to keep it moderately PG-13.
- Captions submitted any other way besides in the comment section will not be accepted! That means do not use the feedback form, though you may really, really want to.
- Captions will be accepted from the moment this post goes live until Friday, January 22 at 10 a.m. Mountain Time.
- A crack team of humor experts will pick the winner and we will announce it shortly thereafter.
The winner will receive one of our new 6W Solar Panels! Aaaaaand GO!
Some call me... Tim
I didn't get a Dumpster Dive again! Every one, grab your torches and pitchforks!
Prometheus: I stole fire from the Gods!
Humanity: Pics or it didn't happen
Shit! Third lightsaber to do that this week.
"we're low on educational content posts, so here is another caption contest!" lol
FlameFun, the inevitable evolution of SparkFun.
F**K USB I still use FireWire
This is the only remaining photo from the great Colorado fire of 2016.
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
Behold! I have created- wait, that's not supposed to be on fire, hold on a second.
Yes, we have tantalum capacitor's!
All IC's are made of smoke. When the smoke escapes, they stop working. All Sparkfun products are made of sparks. When they stopped working, you have to take it outside to let the sparks escape.
And so Nick beings the 2016 Spark fun games with the traditional torch lighting ceremony.
Behold, the internet of FIRE!
Sparkfun's new year release - Fireduino Launchpad with Smokey Smokey. Sky is the limit!
Nick's body piercing kit now comes with an instant cauterizer.
I am NICK , God of Electronics!
Look on my works, ye mighty, and -- oh wait, my lightsaber went out; lemme start over ...
This is what happens when you over-design a cigarette lighter.
Do you want wildfires? Because this is how you get wildfires.
Reason #7 pointing lasers at airplanes is dangerous.
Employee gets fired up after getting fired from Sparkfun!
Mr. Smith's science class stood in awe, pondering who their longterm substitute might be.
Today's cool new product: The Lithium-Ion powered baseball bat. Bwahahaha!
If I hold it in my other hand water comes out..
Now THAT's a solar flare!
Headline: Olympic torch runner uses torch as signal flare after getting lost by following apple maps!
Nicks last words....Hey Y'all, watch this!!!
Look at all the sparks I give!
Sparkfun Wish List:
Piezo Igniter
In stock COM-10234
$9.95
Tube - Aluminum (1"OD x 14"L x 0.82"ID)
in Stock ROB-12375
$5.39
Methane - Sparkfun Cafeteria served beans.
Only 13 left: FART-99999
Priceless.
Unhappy with their services, Sparfun employees try to destroy the cloud.
Now I am become Nick, the destroyer of SparkFun.
Incendio!
Now that I've mastered the flame spurt, I can live undisturbed...now if only I could discover the secret of the R.O.U.S.'s.
I don't think they exist.
Who are you who can summon fire without flint or tinder?
All of SparkFun lived in harmony. Then, everything changed when the fire nation attacked.
"Need a light?" These were the last words Mark heard before he lost his eyebrows.
Our new fishing tale lie detector kit is HAWT!
Training to carry the Olympic torch has begun!
From massive flooding at sparkfun to wild fires.
Now! Now I am ready show how to mow this lawn!
And ready to call the fire department. Just in case...
'Scuse me while I light the sky...
Our new Instructable: How to make incendiary remarks without Twitter.
If this gets any hotter, the field's going to have a bad day.
Oh no, not again.
They told me to light up the sky!
Who said global warming is caused by carbon emission?
Oh no! The Make Magazine garage door opener did this again!
Little known to the SparkFun Empire, a simple spark soon created not only a new logo, but also a fire based revolution.
Guess what I got in my Dumpster Dive!
Retro transmitter: Works in both visible and infrared!
Hey anyone can you see the Sparkfun logo?
You'll probably see a lot of these in the next dumpster dive. Fire not included, air freight not allowed.
And so the great and powerful Oz after having his balloon and ego deflated, was last seen in Colorado trying to find his way back to Kansas.
Imagination sparks intelligence sparks invention. On a side note Spark fun is now hiring.
With a spark of intelligence man created fire, never mind the tall dry grass every where.
I have the powerrrrr!
Because the man in my dream, the one standing on the hill, it is not me... It is you, Nick. (Sonny, iROBOT)
Little did he know, his meme about "getting fired" that went viral would get him unemployed.
What do you mean I am standing in a field of dry grass?!?
Do not try this at home!
Moments later, Nick realized that the flame retardant properties of the faux fur coat were oversold and underdelivered.
"The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up."
Perhaps cereal arsonist? I mean, look at that field...
Next on VH1's Behind the Villain every villain has that pivotal moment and this was his. The moment where Nick went from Creative Technologist to Flameborg the Evil Genius.
It wasn't supposed to do that.
With the Dumpster Dive complete, SparkFun prepares for their new "Scorched Earth" promotion. Some feel marketing may have taken it too far.
We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky.
Well, whaddya know? Cow flatulence DOES burn!
Nick doesn't settle for just letting the "Magic Blue Smoke" out.
Need a light?
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
SparkFun EHS would not allow this re-creation of their logo on company property. We're still not sure why they allowed it here...
Stand back! I'm going to try science!
Saving time by reflowing the solder and burning the EEPROM in the same step.
Suddenly, Smokey felt that something was very, very wrong. He had felt this feeling only once before and knew that this twinge could only be the result of SFE employees going outside. Thankfully, bears can run, engineers can't.
Nick, holding what is left of SparkFun's servers after the dumpster dive, calls for help.
We started testing some products for hot air balloon drones. This may not have been such a good idea..
And si how we burned up the the methane sensor...
Set one fire alarm off at work, and they make you go outside to test things...
Yippee ki yay ...
"Releasing of my gas just got so much more interesting! Friends, family, and coworkers beware!"
From now on, you'll have to refer to me as "Nick, Lord of the Flame."
The solitary reaper tries to spark fun; invents wireless hotspot out of none
January? HaHaHa!!! The Heat Is On my friends!! :)
No, flaming jelly fish, you cannot has my candy bar.
A man out-standing in his field.
A hot sefie, the Sparkfun way
Hololo.....and the sky turned blue and the flame red
What comes after sparks FIRE!!!
And with a Spark, the fire dance begins to summon the power of the electrical god, Tesla
Behold: what hath eluded me so hath given me fire. Mighty blaze and canon of fart, it is time.
Field of dead grass... Check!, Cellphone Camera..... Check!, Stick of giant fireball... Check! What could possibly go wrong....
Spark Oddity: Commencing Countdown, Engines On...
Sparkfun's new wildfire starter-kit. Get yours today!
Fortunately, the SF shrinking ray kit included a match to signal for help. Unfortunately, the kit didn't specify the dangers of lighting it on top of the shop's dog.
Inventor of the Fart Stick lights his first blue flame before dying in a grass fire.
Putting the "wild" back into Colorado Wild Fire.
I knew I should have bought a battery charger from SparkFun.
Controlled burn just means I have to use an Arduino on the valve solenoid, right?
Kylo Ren attempts his first light saber
In his constant quest for irony, Nick deploys the Smokey Bear Signal.
KIT-13420 Sparkfun Bong-Gone-Wrong v0.1
selfire
Mythbusters demise, Sparkfun win
Popularizing the anonymous (back-of-the-head) selfie by letting magic smoke (and fire) out in the background!
Fire. FIRE! I HAVE MADE FIRE!
Sparkfun tries out the new open source fire torch.
There aren't any fire detectors outside.
Remember, after the fire, after all the rain, I will be the flame!!!
Follow me on Snapchat: Prometheus
Arms spread wide to show he's not cheating! or maybe he's worried about his cell phone.
I AM LOKI, GOD OF FIRE... FEEL MY WRATH!!!
This is where Nick goes when company policy prohibits his latest project.
There's never a dull day in boulder when Nick's around.
Behold my potato canon!
When you said your phone call would warm my heart I did not think you meant it literally!
Nate was never as happy that he enforced a strict "no smoking" policy on SparkFun's property as he was the day he looked out his window and saw Nick Poole vaping in the empty lot next door.
The first evidence of the flame being in the SparkFun logo.
SparkFun's secret weapon against trolls who try to start flame wars in the comment section.
Attempt #34 to recreate the Sparkfun Logo IRL
I am the God of Hellfire and I bring You FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"When you can take the remote from my hand, it will be time for you to leave."
Where there is Spark, there is Fun!
R&D of Light-saber prototyping trials, iteration # 41: Light more controlled than previous experiments. However, looking closer at our subject, we confirm consistent side-effect of hair removal from head and facial region.
Let the Fire Olympics begin!
Here is our XXI century Prometheus: only Nick can stand up to Zeus!
I'm the Master of Sparks on High!
Summon the Rohirrim! And change your shirt!
Only YOU can prevent engineers from playing with fire...
The modern caveman - controlling fire from his phone
Let there be FIRE !
Nick's DIY methane gas torch!
I have a bad feeling about this...
-- Han
There,s got be a better way to set the world on fire with with our electronics.
Come on Sparkfun, light my fire! Come on Sparkfun, light my fire!
Moments prior to the elimination of all body hair - the final step in Nick's transition to machine.
Fire? Wait...What FIRE!? I thought It was supposed to be magic smoke...oh crap.
Sparkfun.. all about how to start some 'fun' with just a spark.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go fire.
Only YOU can prevent brush fires.
I have the poweeeeeer! (Heman)
Man... right after he got fire from Promethius.
I don't always let out the magic blue smoke, but when I do, I prefer to do it in style.
Thou shall not pass!
Listen up, see this, this is my boom stick.
OK, who added a fire aspect to my spell of efficiency +3 ?
Making the Sparkfun logo with real sparks
Nick's live Sparkfun logo generator.
Smoke test! FAILED!
They told me the Olympic torch would be here! What gives?