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March 2, 2006
Are You From the Past?
Roy: Yeah, you do know how a button works, don't you? No, not on clothes. No, there you go, I just heard it come on. No, that's the music you hear when it comes on. No, that's the music you hear when... I'm sorry, are you from the past?
The favorite new sitcom around the office is The IT Crowd, a British sitcom from the creators of Father Ted about a small IT department. (Hey Fuzzy, you don't live in Britain, how are you watching this show? Oh, there are ways.)
Hi-larious stuff, even if you're not a super geek. (Though, don't worry if you are a super geek -- real geeks were involved.)
And now my friend Kyle has made a T-shirt inspired by one of his favorite lines from the show. Available in geek-friendly black as well.
Update: BoingBoing linked to the shirts and Cory Doctorow called them "amazing fan-tees".
Posted by Fuzzy at March 2, 2006 12:08 PM
Comments
Attn: Shirt designer. "Does not equal" is properly expressed as " != ". That symbol is fine if you're into pen and paper though, but given the shirt is supposed to be IT-"geeky", I suggest a " != "
Posted by: SleighBoy at March 2, 2006 2:28 PM
I came to say the exact same thing. -)
Posted by: Thomas J. Brown at March 2, 2006 3:40 PM
Not to start nothing, and I'm not the designer, but he and another geek both just leaned over into my cube and our consensus was that there are a lot of ways to geekily express "not equals" -- in visual basic it'd be "<>", in perl "ne", in regexp "^", etc. The ≠ symbol is the actual mathematical symbol AND the designer is a Mac geek -- accurate typography is one of the ways his geekiness expresses itself.
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at March 2, 2006 3:47 PM
Thanks for the tipoff - somehow this show had flown under my radar, and I'm finding it truly hilarious. Great stuff!
Posted by: Matt Stratton at March 3, 2006 6:15 AM