Separated at birth: The Windows XP SP2 launch team

Date:October 31, 2006 / year-entry #369
Tags:non-computer
Orig Link:https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20061031-02/?p=29173
Comments:    11
Summary:When Paul Thurott interviewed the Windows XP SP2 launch team, he also included publicity photos of many of the team members. Which, of course, prompted me to play a game similar to my stunt casting of Harry Potter, namely, "Separated at birth?" Todd Wanke Robert Redford Rebecca Norlander Lisa Kudrow Mark Harris Ryan Stiles Laurie...

When Paul Thurott interviewed the Windows XP SP2 launch team, he also included publicity photos of many of the team members. Which, of course, prompted me to play a game similar to my stunt casting of Harry Potter, namely, "Separated at birth?"

Todd Wanke
 Robert Redford
Rebecca Norlander
 Lisa Kudrow
Mark Harris
 Ryan Stiles
Laurie Litwack
 Paula Poundstone
Jim Allchin
 Andy Warhol
Comments (11)
  1. Spire says:
    October 31, 2006 at 11:11 am

    This is fun! Let me have a try.

    Todd Wanke: Ryan O’Neal.

    Rebecca Norlander: Maya Rudolph.

    Mark Harris: Woody from "Toy Story".

    Laurie Litwack: Cynthia Stevenson. Or Meryl Streep.

    Jim Allchin: Clay Aiken.

  2. Eric Lippert says:
    October 31, 2006 at 11:33 am

    I love how Reb looks like she’s about to play a practical joke on you and can barely keep from laughing.  Fabulous photo.

  3. Cody says:
    October 31, 2006 at 12:01 pm

    I think the Ryan Stiles resemblance is the best.  Then again, I like Ryan Stiles a little too much.

    [It was the Ryan Stiles resemblance that inspired the entire exercise! -Raymond]
  4. Tim says:
    October 31, 2006 at 12:18 pm

    Jim Allchin has always reminded me of Skeletor from He Man and the Masters of the Universe.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletor

  5. Reuben Harris says:
    October 31, 2006 at 12:21 pm

    Anyone else reckon Todd Wanke has an alarming resemblence to John Carmack?

    That’s the second time I’ve seen his mugshot and both times I’ve thought "Carmack!"…

    (Here’s a pic of John Carmack: http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/images/John_carmack.jpg)

  6. Cooney says:
    October 31, 2006 at 1:17 pm

    Jim Allchin always reminded me of a zombie movie :)

  7. Jon says:
    October 31, 2006 at 1:37 pm

    It looks like the Lisa Kudrow picture was blocked.  You might consider hosting the pictures yourself rather than hotlinking, given the size of your readership and the bandwidth costs of image hosting.  I see that your Harry Potter post had some of its images blocked, presumably for that same reason.

  8. Cody says:
    October 31, 2006 at 1:43 pm

    "You might consider hosting the pictures yourself rather than hotlinking"

    Short of using photobucket or something similar, he can’t.  The blog software and/or settings don’t give him any space to upload images.

  9. Jason says:
    October 31, 2006 at 8:47 pm

    Is Paula Poundstone really someone you would want to be associated with?

  10. Mike says:
    October 31, 2006 at 10:08 pm

    Including images from other sites is considered bad form at best, bandwidth stealing at worst…

  11. required says:
    November 2, 2006 at 8:10 am

    No. Worst is "embarassing", when you find your blog is actually displaying porn because someone at the linked site got vindictive.

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