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Tech Tee Shirts Explained
Have you ever seen a tech tee shirt with technical saying or equation but didn’t know what it meant? It is almost as if someone is having an inside joke. Well now, here are some explanations of some of those tee shirts.
Caffeine Molecule Tee-shirt: You know how much people likes caffeine when you see them wearing a picture of the caffeine molecule on their tee-shirt.
GeeKISSexy Babydoll Tee: A tee-shirt for females (who can be geeks too). The tee-shirt has the words “Geek is sexy”. But if you join the three words together, dropping the spaces, you can see that the middle letters spells the work “kiss”. To highlight this “kiss” word, the letters are capitalized and in a different red color from the base white text color.
PI Tee shirt – PI is a mathematical constant which has the numeric value that is infinitely long and starts out with 3.1415… This tee-shirts has the numeric value of PI written out to some length. The numbers are placed into the shape of the Greek letter PI which is usually used to denote this numeric value.
Binary People – The tech tee-shirt says “There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understands binary and those who don’t.” The “10″ is the number two in the binary number system. So the sentence is really saying that there are two types of people. But that is only apparent to those who understands binary enough to realize that “10″ is the binary number for “2″.
SQL Query tech tee shirt – It shows a SQL query: “SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0″. A SQL query is a database query to retrieve records from the database. Loosely translated, the query is trying to find users that have a clue. Then the tee-shirts shows the answers of that query to be “0 rows returned”. Translated it means “There are no users that have a clue.” Or to put it in another way, all users are clueless.
Geek Love Poem T-Shirt: This shirt shows … ROSES ARE #FF0000 VIOLETS ARE #0000FF ALL MY BASE ARE BELONG TO YOU #FF0000 is the hex color code for red. And #0000FF is the hex color code for blue.
No place like 127.0.0.1 tee shirt: This tee-shirt says “There’s no place like 127.0.0.1″. It is a play on the phrase, “there is no place like home”. The IP address 127.0.0.1 refers to home because that is the IP address of “localhost” or your own home server.
Tee shirt of a Capsaicin Molecule – This T-shirt basically says “Hot”. The capsaicin molecule shown is the active ingredient of hot chili peppers.
Man Woman Tech Tee-Shirt: In UNIX, the command “man” means to look up the manual reference of a command. The command “man woman” means to look up “woman” in the “manual” in an attempt to “figure out woman”. The results shows “Segmentation fault (core dumped)” indicating that the computer crash and is not able to return an answer. It implies that man doesn’t understand woman.
Half Programming T-Shirt: The shirt says “Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging”. For those who have programmed before, they may see an element of truth in this. It is easy to write code. The hard part (90% of it) is fixing the code so that it works (this is called debugging). The irony is that half plus 90% doesn’t add up to 1 — which implies there is a bug in that statement.
I blog to differ tee-shirt: The phrase “I blog to differ” as seen on the shirt is a play on the phrase “I beg to differ”. So instead of begging, the wearer is “blogging”. This implies that the wearer is a blogger (one who writes blog, or using the verb term “blog”).
I have a blog tee shirt – This tee shirt reads “I have a blog, a MySpace page and a YouTube video; all I need now is a life.” which implies that having those things and a life is mutually exclusive.
“What Would Joel Do” T-shirt: The shirt says “WWJD? What would Joel do?” Joel Spolsky is know in the tech circles as the programmer who write the blog JoelOnSoftware.com and the book “Joel On Software” which has a really long sub-title of “And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity”
Sudo Tech Tee Shirt: This shirt shows a cartoon where one person asks another to make a sandwich. But the other refuses. Until the first precedes the command with “sudo”. And that worked. The other must comply. Afterall, he did use the “sudo” command, which in UNIX is command that allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user such as a super user. Many times programmer will run a command which fails and then immediately run the same command using sudo and it works.