Getting Inked for Tux at OSCON 108
OSCON isn't just a gathering for talks on topics like Creating Location-aware Web 2.0 Applications on an Open Source Geospatial Platform and fightin' words from the stage; it's also an excuse for some interesting social gatherings, like this year's Community Choice awards (organized and sponsored by the corporate overlords at SourceForge, as you might recall, and with Slashdot's own special category), at which, among other festive activities, attendees were offered the chance to get open-source-related tattoos. There are shots of some of these up on the SourceForge Community pages, and — with some overlap — even more in this set at Flickr. (My pasty bicep^h^h^h^h^h shoulder is the one now adorned with a circled head of a happy Tux ala IBM; I was expecting it to hurt more than it actually did.) Anyone with techie tattoos, please disclose below.
Pretty Fly (Score:2, Funny)
Now he's getting a tattoo yeah
he's getting ink done
He asks for a 13
but they drew a 31!
Friends say he's trying too hard and he's not quite hip
But in his own mind he's the
he's the dopest trick
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I almost got a chuckle, but by the end of your mangled sentence the English language was way past dead by you beating it with your mangled version of it :(
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It's song lyrics. 'Pretty fly (for a white guy)' to be exact, and it doesn't need to have prefect structure while it's being sung.
I got Zune tattoos (Score:1, Funny)
You've probably seen my photo around [engadgetmobile.com], but I'm trying to get them removed now.
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Please tell me you're joking... (Score:5, Informative)
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Indeed, I feel sorry for these people who get tattoos like this.
Oooh, look what geek cred I have, I have open source logos on me. Except that the penguin has never been anything but, well, pretty lame really.
And then add to the the speed of progress in the tech world, and you've got yourself a permanent reminder of how narrow focused you happened to be at one point in your life.
Fast forward 10 years or so and you have so many other things that you are interested in, and you can see how foolish it may have b
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Actuallly I really enjoyed checking out some of the ink done at this site:
Carl Zimmer's Science Tattoos [sciencetattoo.com]
I have just one tat and it is on my shoulder and not really geeky at all. It's just a Greatful Dead "Steal Your Face" tat that I have had since I was about 16.
(Oh - and someone fix this window size please? I hate trying to post in idle just because of this.)
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http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/sciencetattoo/2008/02/cousin-to-pigeo.html [typepad.com]
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But it's not an operating system, it's my whole life! See, I won't regret it.
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Re:Please tell me you're joking... (Score:5, Insightful)
Because if no-one points out the folly in doing this when others do it, but just heap praise on them, well, others are likely to do the same thing.
Then you have even more people who wish they maybe should have thought a bit longer about getting something so topical inked onto their body for life.
If comments like this make just a few people think 'oh... hmmm, yeah, maybe I won't still think Linux is the centre of the universe in 10 years', and perhaps just get themselves a nice t-shirt or something, then my work here is done.
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Yeah, that was a well thought out response pulling on all available knowledge, bravo sir.
Did I say all tats? No
Did I even state any kind of age at which getting one of these tats is foolhardy? No
Do you know how old I am? Well, maybe, it's not hard to find out, but I would say, no.
I'm not going to say that everyone who gets a tat in their 20s will regret it, but I am going to say a lot will, especially with the numbers who get ridiculously fleeting things like company logos inked into their flesh.
Band names
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A Zune logo is pretty dumb, but something like Tux or Mario do have a lot of significance already. Mario is just an icon in his own right, and a big part of gaming history. Tux perhaps isn't very well recognised outside of geek circles, but MS are going to be remembered for centuries to come as the company to drive home computing forward (in a pretty crappy way, but they have done some slight good in amongst all the bad). Linux looks like it's going to be the thing to get us out of the mire and drive comput
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'Band names are another great one for this. "Oh, yeah, well, I did like Metallica X years ago, not so much now, but erm, yeah, I have their name across my back"'
Or perhaps they can look at it and say, "Oh, yea, that's from a time in my life when I liked Metallica. Thoooose were the daaaays'.
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I've been in the business for almost twenty years now, and I could not agree more. Of course, this is also true for a lot of things: the name of your lover, a favorite band, etc. I always get a laugh out of the guys that walk in and immediately want to show off their pre-existing stuff with "I got this one in prison". Of course, when you have so many scratchers out there that just want to take your money, it's not hard to see why people make poor decisions and end up with poorly done work.
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Well, if we look back 10 years at someone who got a tattoo of tux...
Linux is quickly closing on 20 years, and is likely to keep going for quite some time yet.
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For a logo that represents a product (even an Free one), you may be right. People do have to think that they will have if for their lives, and that's something. You can't do it for impulse, it has to be a matured decision.
That's why I got a GNU tattoo [googlepages.com]. It's not about the GNU system, but about the whole Free Software movement. It won't die. Even if 30 years from now I'm completely away from the scene, or it's still an important part of my life, and it represents important ideals for me.
I'm also considering a
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I got my tux tattoo about 8 years ago, and had it touched up with the rest of these folks (actually, earlier on in the day because I had to MC the party.)
I think it's still as timely now as it was when I got it, and I think that if 30 years go by I'll always remember how important Linux was to me during this time in my life. If it weren't for my exposure to Linux, I probably wouldn't have become a sysadmin when I was a kid, I probably wouldn't have become a developer in my twenties, and I wouldn't be the c
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I wish I had an Amazon affiliate code because "So, you got a penguin tattoo, what now?" would be a perfect recommendation.
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... in 25 years, your body-art will be as timely as the "Primos Rules" tattoo I have.
Is that because "Primus" was misspelled, or because you just aren't as big a fan of the band anymore? :)
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Also, I believe the slogan for the band Primus is/was, "Primus Sucks"...
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... in 25 years, your body-art will be as timely as the "Primos Rules" tattoo I have.
Who or what is Primos???
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Re:Please tell me you're joking... (Score:5, Informative)
Primos was the operating system for Prime Computer's line of minicomputers. They had a few years of fame as the first mini with disk-backed virtual memory. Then DEC cleaned their clock with VMS and the VAXen.
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>Then DEC cleaned their cocks with VMS and the VAXen.
At least that's how I read that.
Strangely, It enhances the post significantly.
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Exactly. I mean, I lean on the side of the vast majority of tattoos are lame anyway (though I have seen some I like), but how pathetic a life do you have to lead that you want to be permanently marked with a -- let's be honest -- pretty stupid-looking penguin. If I went insane for whatever reason and wanted to get a Linux penguin icon, I'd at least get some really cool looking penguin (pardon the pun), with some really co
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Open-Source Tattoos? (Score:5, Funny)
'Cause I've got the needles right here...
Atomic Power (Score:2)
I have a three-orbital atom [worldalmanacforkids.com] tatooed on the bicep of my left arm. One of the orbitals is blue, one is red, and the third is green. (I've had an obsession with the primary colours of light for as long as I can remember.)
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3 orbitals means 3 electrons which means 3 protons. Proclaiming your love for Lithium, huh?
tat != tough (Score:3, Funny)
here [sourceforge.net] is my favorite.
Trying to pull a tough-guy face while sporting Tux on your arm just doesn't work.
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When I see the look on his face, I'm pretty sure he knows he isn't tough, and that fact was just starting to sink in as that picture was taken!
Mindtouch (Score:1)
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It just so happens that the person in that picture is Aaron Fulkerson, the CEO of Mindtouch. It seems to me that he's probably not going to be fired or quit anytime soon.
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Wow! That is sooooo sad! (Score:1)
have my tux already (Score:1)
Uh, okay (Score:2)
Now, I have a lot of ink with much more planned, but I'm not getting tux, beastie, the Microsoft butterfly, or any other tech logos tattooed on my body.
I'd consider wearing a T-shirt or hoodie with tux on it to a Microsoft conference (just to be irritating) if the opportunity arises, but no geek tats for me thanks.
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A Microsoft conference? And you call this courage? Tux, this is Steve. Steve, this is Tux. [vrana.cz]. ;-)
Binary tat (Score:1)
I have my son's birthday tattooed in binary on my right forearm. I don't think I have a picture online anywhere though.
00110011
00110001
00110111
00110000
00110010
Ya, it's the ascii chars of his birthday, not "real" binary numbers.
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Thats pretty cool. I got my last name in binary a few years back. It wraps around my upper arm. Thankfully I only have a 3 letter last name.
Nerd Ink (Score:1)
Inked? Did you mean... (Score:1, Funny)
Bloody Power logo (Score:1)
BSD Daemon (Score:4, Insightful)
If you're going to do something stupid like get an OSS logo tattoo, at least get something more cool than a penguin.
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If you're going to do something stupid like get an OSS logo tattoo, at least get something more cool than a penguin.
Too bad Linus's favorite animal wasn't the unicorn.
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If you believe my high school, which uses one as a logo, Unicorns are a symbol of masculinity. This is because all Unicorns are male.
The other thing to remember about them, which makes them so fitting for Slashdot, is that all Unicorns are infertile.
No doubt why they're so popular amongst girls.
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That's why BSD is way cooler than Linux. She-daemon anyone (regular [bellaminettes.com]) (nsfw version [bellaminettes.com]) (another nsfw [netcode.pl]? And if you're lucky you could hook up with a real [netcode.pl] one [eugeneciurana.com].
Re:BSD Daemon (Score:4, Funny)
Can't speak for other women, but I read those as "I never want any contact with a real woman 'evah.'"
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100% agree!
In a few years any logo can change, any OSS situation can, and will, change. So, it's too stupid getting a tattoo of this kind of stuff.
It's better something tribal, dragons, etc... that will good actual even in several years.
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I got a tattoo of Tux on my chest. I got it around the RedHat 7.2( or around 2001) days. I figured Linux was not going to die in my life time that's why I figured it was safe. I was thinking about a KDE or GNOME logo but all of those could run on top of Linux. Maybe I can get those around the Tux tat. Oh well, I figured there is nothing wrong with a penguin. Or a KDE dragon or a big foot logo.
The thing is when you get a tat I figured it should mean something to you. If you want a BSD Daemon then get one, bu
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Yeah, if you want to look scary, don't settle for anything less than a Hans Reiser tattoo.
Gots me a Fedora Tattoo (Score:1)
Too bad its Henna though....
The Fedora Logo would be the one thing I'd actually tattoo. Even if I switch distros, the meaning would still stand. Infinite Freedom, Voice.
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the freedom to need to manually add /sbin and /usr/sbin to your $PATH
I have one thing to say, (Score:1)
Cut, Print, Gay.
All for you Jess.
My wife thought they were fake (Score:3, Funny)
Then I told her they were real. She was in shock.
Her introduction to the open source/geek culture is progressing well though.
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Her introduction to the open source/geek culture is progressing well though.
Perhaps you should introduce her to something less deleterious to social lives first. Something like anorexia, or heroin.
Not Exactly a Tux Tattoo (Score:3, Insightful)
At the time, I was working heavily with MS Site Server (what they called portals before portals were called portals). It jumpstarted my career as a systems administrator and I don't ever want to forget that time, when I was energized, full of life, and right about nearly everything.
That said, all of my Windows skills went out the window(s) when I became a Java middleware admin.
Tux and more (Score:1, Insightful)
Ya, I am one of those uncreative fools that got tux too....But I also decided to get a bit more done after that:
http://www.bbdforum.com/gallery_image.php?action=view&iid=662#pictop
I could not be more happy with how my tattoo's have turned out. And I look forward to wearing them forever....Tux is awesome, and in 30 years if I am the only one who knows what it means...then fine by me. The point of a tattoo is for yourself anyways. And it can always represent the start of something, or something that yo
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I could not be more happy with how my tattoo's have turned out. And I look forward to wearing them forever....Tux is awesome, and in 30 years if I am the only one who knows what it means...then fine by me. The point of a tattoo is for yourself anyways. And it can always represent the start of something, or something that you enjoyed at the time. For me it was a large foundation in my open source lifestyle. And it will always be that foundation. Even if the symbol changes to everyone else, I will always have that symbol which means something to me.
I couldn't have said it better!
Diss tux all you want... (Score:1)
This actually carries really strong meaning, and is something that while looking awesome, will always mean something really important to you. Or at least that's how it feels to me.
I've been wanting to get a glider tatooed on my forearm for a while, this just convinced me to go ahead and do it. As long as I still stand proud of what it means, I don't give two shits what other people think.
Open-source-related tramp stamp? (Score:1)
The Ring (Score:1)
Yes, I had it done way before the movies...
And no, I don't think I shall regret it, as the books have been with me since childhood, and I find delight in them every time I read them :-)
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Sorry, forgot the link:
http://molgaard.org/img/ash_nazg.jpg [molgaard.org]
Re:fuck off windows (Score:1, Funny)
I got MS tattooed on my dick, and you're all about to be fucked!