A while ago, we had a discussion here at the office about nerdy t-shirts. We all know what I'm talking about: usually worn by a male geek/programmer with a neckbeard, a black shirt with a "witty" technical reference. Opinions about these shirts vary among SRT employees: some of us find them funny and even wear them on dates [no report on the results, though], some are skeptical. You might guess that I fall into the second camp. Here are the worst offenders in my book:
The geek love poem...
It's so bad it's good.
The worst one of all. Nearly ubiquitous in computer science buildings on campuses nationwide, but yet still considered brilliant and unique by the wearer.
And of course, I can't leave out geeky women's gear -- in some ways even more horrifying than the men's stuff. Evidence presented:
HTML tags -- get it?!
I have no words. Instead I'll leave you with ThinkGeek's description of these: "... we bring you HTTPanties
for the discriminating woman who would prefer a web-savvy and somewhat-direct
approach in the romance department. Feeling frisky? Well then don the black "200 OK" panties and see where they take
you. Alternatively, the white "403 Forbidden" style sends a very different
and hopefully clear message. We think "411 Length Required" and "413 Requested Entity Too Large" are pretty self-explanatory."