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I nominated Jon for Sysadmin of the Year 2006:

Not many sysadmins are responsible for the hundreds of servers and terabytes of data that power a web-site with millions of users, but Jon is. In addition to that he's also responsible for all the computers and test servers in the office, which means he's in charge of keeping us developers happy (and everyone else, too, but they're easier to please).

To keep him on his toes, as it were, most of the equipment Jon is responsible for lives at a co-lo in Jersey, which, as any Manhattanite will tell you, is somewhere West of us, though no one really knows where and no one really cares to find out, because there's no good reason to go to Jersey - hell, there aren't even any bad reasons to go to Jersey. What this really means, though, is that at any hour of the day or night Jon's smartphone might start beeping, and if it can't be fixed remotely, he has to hop in a ZipCar and get his tired ass over to Jersey. Thankfully, with EVDO and a Lenovo tablet (which he always carries), he can usually fix things wherever he happens to be - which just means that he has a four pound tether tying him to his work no matter where he goes (and I've got pictures of him standing outside a Starbucks at one in the morning trying to fix something after we left a movie theater).

Anyway, despite everything Jon goes through, he's still one of the chillest guys I've ever met and could kick my tail at CS:S, BF2, or Burnout Revenge any day of the week. I think his effort and responsibility deserves to be rewarded, not many 26 year olds have the responsibility that he has and handle it as well.

Sorry, it's a little PG-13, but it was funnier that way.