Vote for the Computer Engineer Barbie

by Matt Burns on January 11, 2010

I can’t come up with a good reason why Computer Engineer Barbie is more socially-forward than Environmentalist Barbie, Surgeon Barbie, Architect Barbie, or News Anchor Barbie. It probably has something to do with a fantasy I share with nearly every other computer nerd. Whatever. Vote here to help further the Computer Engineer Barbie movement. You know you wanna.

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JohnnyTToxic - January 11th, 2010 at 4:45 pm UTC

I just want to see what sort of cheesy, misrepresented accessories she’ll come with. It’ll probably be a boring laptop and not a beowulf cluster.

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- Dave Peterson - January 11th, 2010 at 5:35 pm UTC
  
  Accessories better include teeny-tiny Lego Star Wars mini-figs and about 15 empty Coke cans, or I’m calling fraud.
  
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- Erbo - January 11th, 2010 at 6:07 pm UTC
  
  Shouldn’t be a big deal to make a Barbie-sized APC rack full of 1U servers…
  
  But she needs to come with soda cans, a pizza box, and a Nerf gun for cubicle defense, too. :-)
  
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Greg Kumparak - January 11th, 2010 at 5:08 pm UTC

Where’s the option for “Social Media Expert” Barbie?

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Drone - January 11th, 2010 at 6:06 pm UTC

Hey, where’s the Computer Engineer Ken? Without Computer Engineer Ken we can’t pretend to make Computer Engineer Babies!

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- Erbo - January 11th, 2010 at 6:09 pm UTC
  
  Ken’s probably in QA. Or maybe telephone support. :-)
  
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Alex Neuman - January 11th, 2010 at 7:14 pm UTC

If he’s in tech support then it’s going to be something like… “Hello and thank you for calling Mattel tech support, my name is Kendrayanan Seetharamanamanatoot-toot-toorooroohnan but you can call me Ken”.

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Sharon McEachern - January 12th, 2010 at 11:37 am UTC

If Barbie works as a computer engineer it could threaten her health.Teenagers who become computer engineers usually addicted to the internet. Recent research that found teens who are addicted to the internet are much more likely to purposefully hurt themselves than non-addicted teens. We’re talking hitting themselves, pulling their own hair out, burning and cutting themselves. Ethic Soup has a good post on this research at:

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/12/internet-addict-teens-more-likely-to-hurt-themselves.html

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Laura - January 12th, 2010 at 5:19 pm UTC

I hope Computer Engineer gets picked. It would be great for convincing my niece to follow in my footsteps :)

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- Drone - January 13th, 2010 at 4:13 am UTC
  
  I picture this in my whiskey soaked mind… it’s reely kreepy.
  
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