We’ve heard of footballers bathing in champagne and Bernie Ecclestone’s lovely leather carpets, but now it seems the computing industry has its own purveyor of grotesque extravagance.

This is Rahul Sood, the founder of VoodooPC and now CTO of HP’s gaming business, cutting his birthday cake with a MacBook Air:

“I assure you no Macs were harmed in the taking of this photo,” Sood claims on his blog. The same can’t be said for HP’s reputation, however. After all, had he attempted to do likewise with a HP laptop, there probably wouldn’t be a cake left.