Mike Tougeron

@touge.me

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Infra Software Engineer at #Adobe, #kubernetes fan, avid science fiction reader & gamer (board & video). he/him. Remember, reality is all in your head... Opinions are my own (I think)

A photo of a young gray and white kitten being petted while sitting on a black computer chair.
A quote that says weird is a relative, not absolute term. The text is over an image of the character Megamind
A photo of two dogs. One is yellow and one is white. Both are medium sized. They are both looking up at the camera.
A photo of Morpheus from the movie The Matrix who is a black man wearing a black trench coat and black sunglasses holding out his hands with a red pill and a blue pill in each hand.
The quote Can you tell me how many times I’ll have to remind myself, or relearn what I can do, before I believe it without question? By C.E. Murphy written over a forest scene with the sun rising in the background
An image of the book cover art for Urban Shaman by C. E. Murphy. It has a woman with dark hair in a white shirt with a blue jean jacket with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, leaning on a mystical sword in her right hand. She is wearing dark blue jean pants. She has a "bad ass" stare in her eyes. In the background appears to be a circlet of crystal shards above a Seattle cityscape. I'm not sure what the ground is but I think it is clouds. The scenery has a dream-like feel to it but unlike the rest, the woman is solid and looks more real than the rest.
An image of a rocky beach with the quote Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? by Terry Pratchett
An image with the word Democracy above a simple crown that is crossed out in red ink above the words No Kings. The image has a blue background.
A Google search for "how many songs have ever bseen made?" with the AI results of "While there's no definitive count of al songs ever created, estimates suggest there are approximately 2 million songs throughout history. However, the number of songs available for listening is much"
A slightly blurry pride flag in the background of two hands, one white, one brown, making a heart shape. It is an actual photo.
A photo of a highschool male baseball batter watching the baseball cross the plate (strike) with the ball in the strike zone, the catcher about to catch the ball and the umpire behind him.
A teenage male pitching a baseball. He is wearing a green uniform shirt, green hat, and white baseball pants. The ball is mid air on the way to the plate. In the background are 2 other baseball players wearing the same uniform.
A screenshot of a Steam game download status showing the download speed is only 9.4Mbps and it will take 23 minutes to finish downloading the game update.
Photo of my new Weber Genesis II BBQ. It is chrome with a tray on the left, a side burner on the right, 4 main burners, and a closet beneath. It has black trim/molding. There is a temperature gauge in the middle of the lid.
A screenshot shot of a tweet by @yeeeerika with the words "I have feelings for you but you have to guess which ones"
A photo of me with a look of fear on my face like I'm screaming from the top of the London Eye
A photo of my breakfast with 2 fried eggs, bacon, an English sausage, baked beans, sliced mushrooms, thick cut French fries, and white toast.
A three-panel political cartoon by Gritty20202, titled "Gritty is the Way," compares historical and contemporary events. Each panel features an authority figure saying, "I'm just following orders." The first panel, labeled "1830s American West," shows a U.S. soldier in a cavalry uniform with a Native American man in traditional clothing looking distressed. The second panel, labeled "1940s Nazi Germany," depicts a Nazi officer with a prisoner in a striped concentration camp uniform. The third panel, labeled "Present-Day USA," shows an ICE officer in a tactical vest with a distressed woman and child clinging to each other.
The grave tile for Stephen Hawking with the date 1942-2018
The memorial to Sir Isaac Newton. An apple above a marble statue of Newton next to 2 child angels. There's a plaque but the words are too small to read.
A photo in from of Buckingham Palace facing the gold queen Victoria monument statue. The area in front of the statue is crowded with people watching the household guard marching. The household guard is dressed in a red uniform with large black furry hats. There was a band in black uniforms carrying flags marching in front. It was a clear day with a blue sky and trees in the background.
A photo of an empty courtyard surrounded by buildings with high wall. The buildings are painted a drab white or brick red color. It is very boring looking.
A photo of Joseph Sandoval (left), Liz Rice (middle), and Katie Gamanji (right) sitting on the stage at KubeCon during a panel.
A screenshot of an email from Heroku and AWS that has the subject line "Mike, Evening Social Hosted by Heroku + AWS is coming up in 0 days"
A photo of the kubecon keynote stage. There is a podium on the left and 3 chairs in the middle. The large video screen spans the width of the stage. In the middle of the screen is this kubecon logo of the English style red double Decker bus with all the cartoon animals in it (it is animated across the screen). On the far left and right are many random, rotating CNCF projects logos.
A photo of a slide from kubecon EU 2025. On the top right is a man, the speaker, wearing a white shirt. On the bottom left is a man in a black shirt who was doing the sign language translation. In the middle is a photo of a man in glasses with his hands grasping his head screaming in frustration. On the left are the words in a bulleted list: Al Problems! Assume that Al is a silver bullet Throw engineering out the window Bite off more than one can chew Randomness guaranteed! Fail... Fail... Fail some morell!
An ArgoCD dashboard screenshot that is hard to read that is hard to tell which applications are successfully synced and which ones are not.
A photo of the kubecon registration booth. It has tablets on top of it where you can print your badge. But the cool part is the banner on the side that has the CNCF cartoon characters on an English double Decker bus and the words "Mind the CrashLoop"
1. The Landscape of Women in Cloud Native women in the AI workforce 32% women in the engineering workforce 20 % women in the cloud computing workforce 14 % https://siliconangle.com/2023/05/17/redefining-cloudscape-rise-women-leaders-cloud-computing-womenofthecloud
A skyline photo of the London Bridge from high up
A photo of the outside of the Tate Modern museum, a large building, with a wall in front that has the words "Tate Modern" on it.
A photo of fried fish on top of French fries inside a box
The image is a humorous cartoon illustration. It shows an old-fashioned desktop computer (with a CRT monitor, keyboard, and CPU) mounted on wheels like a small cart, giving it the appearance of a vehicle. The computer is moving through an office hallway with cubicles. On the monitor screen, there's a cartoonish face, implying the computer has a personality. A speech bubble above says: "WHY DID THE COMPUTER SHOW UP AT WORK LATE? IT HAD A HARD DRIVE." This is a pun: "hard drive" refers both to a long or difficult commute and a computer's hard disk drive. In the background, two people are having a conversation at a desk inside one of the cubicles.
A cartoon image of a white male wearing glasses cheering with his arms raised sitting in front of two computer screens with a messy desk covered in energy drink cans and crumpled paper. He has a smile on his face, looks excited, and is saying "Wow, a different error message... Finally some progress!"
AL SHARPTON'S DEI BOYCOTT PLAN 24 HOUR BLACKOUT on FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28, from 12 AM to 11:59 PM. THIS IS THE FIRST STEP to counter the attack on DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) .Do not make any purchases. • Do not shop online, or in-store • No Amazon • No Walmart • No Best Buy • No McDonalds and other fast-food stores .No Gas • No Major Retailers • Do not use Credit or Debit Cards for non-essential spending. Try to buy all you need before Friday, February 28, but IF NECESSARY: • Only buy essentials of absolutely necessary items such as food, medicine, emergency supplies) • If you must spend, ONLY support small, local businesses. WHY THIS MATTERS! Corporations and banks only care about their bottom line. Disrupting the economy for even one day sends a powerful message. If they don't listen we make the next blackout longer. Our numbers are powerful. This is how we make history! SPREAD THE MESSAGE! Please share with all of your contacts. Talk about it, post about it, document your actions that day! We must use he power we do have and send an eco- nomic message with our numbers as did Dr. King!! FEBRUARY 28TH. The 24-Hour Economic Black Out Begins.
A screenshot of a news headline that has a header caption saying "I'm not dead yet" and a headline of "Pixel Watch 3 gets FDA approval to alert you if you're dying" and a sub caption of "But you'll have to wait a bit longer to turn the feature on.'
A clear window with a white piece of paper taped on it that has the words "closed for closure will reopen when open" printed on it
An image from the boss in the movie "Office Space", a man wearing a suit shirt with a tie and suspenders and glasses with the caption saying "yeah if you could stop hitting reply all that would be great"
an image of a building that has a banner on it (I can't tell if it is fake or not but it probably is fake) that says "Lord, take teams not tiktok"
A screen capture of a slack conversation between me and a co-worker that says: coworker: "point of order: that folder name should be orgs (plural) right? since the other folders are plural?" me: "it 'should' be but it isn't that way anywhere" me: "and who's fault is that?" me: "mine. that's whose... :disappointed:"
A screenshot of a news article with the headline "Neil Gaiman denies sexual assault allegations after multiple women come forward"
A photo of a corroded & rusted pipe with a large hole in it
an image from the movie "The Sandlot" of a young boy with freckles wearing a baseball cap with the text from a famous quote from the movie that say s"You're killin' me smalls"
a screenshot from the video game civilization 7 showing a mountain in the foreground with a city in the background surrounded by a wall. the landscape in the background is covered in snow.
Poster for a movie with the text "Wallace & Gromit Vengeance Most Fowl" with the claymation characters Wallace and Gromit looking surprised in the background
A square billboard viewed from a corner where one side has "just do nothing" and around the corner the other side has "it is impossible!" and a heart is wrapped around the corner at the bottom. Even though the sign's sides each look negative, the intention of the sign is to say "Just do it nothing is impossible!". The color of the words "just do it" are different from "nothing is impossible" but I'm colorblind so I don't know what color it is.
A California license plate that says "k8s 137"
A photo of a beach with a palm tree and an ocean stretching into the distance. There are some light clouds in the sky but it is mostly sunny. On the far left side there are two people (with unclear descriptions) standing with their feet in the water.
A photo of me, my wife, and teenage son in front of the sun princess cruise ship
Screenshot of the Blueskyroast report with the following text: Mike Tougeron: The Kubernetes Comedian of Bluesky Where tech insights meet dad jokes in the digital arena. "A delightful blend of geekiness and wit that keeps followers guessing and chuckling." Key Topics 93% Authenticity 75% Thought Leader 90% Kubernetes 85% Dieting and self-sabotage
A cartoon of a turkey holding a tablet with the weather report that says "Thursday's temp: 350 degrees" and a floating thought bubble above the turkey that says "that can't be right..."
A photo of a man (he is blurry) on a stage with a slide with a blue background that says: SAD noun Short for Senior App Developer
A screenshot of the 10-day weather forecast showing rain for 9 of the next 10 days.
A cartoon of the character Skeeter, a bluish colored boy in this image, leaning his back against Doug, a white boy, from the cartoon show Doug.
A 3-panel comic of a snake and turtle. Panel 1: the turtle says to the snake "I'm a creator" Panel 2: the snake says "Oh cool! What do you create?" Panel 3: the turtle responds "mistakes"
A photo of two men and a woman sitting on chairs on a large stage.
Dave Weinstein from Adobe accepting the End User
A photo of Joseph Sandoval on the keynote stage in front of the Kubecon Cloudnativecon banner introducing the next speaker
A photo of a SUV decorated with Argo project designs