It’s a “Portal” Day Today
Today is all about virtual meetings; I’m spending most of it sitting at the home office with a headset microphone clamped to my head, bouncing from one online meeting to another, magically transporting my presence over great distances. My co-worker John Bristowe is in the same boat and quipped on Twitter: “I feel like I’m playing Live Meeting Portal”.
With that remark, and since it’s a Friday, I can’t help but post this amusing cat photo featuring Portal:
![[ani] portal kitty](http://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/aniportalkitty.gif)
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