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What's Your Halloween Costume?
Mr. Penguin asks: "I'm wondering what other Slashdot fans are wearing today for Halloween. I didn't do the tech geek thing, but I did go all out. I'm sitting at my desk right now wearing chain mail, a leather brigadine, a beautiful leather cloak, and English riding boots. Girded at my side is my longsword, and after work, I think I'll head down to the tavern and drink some ale in my leather mug. What do you have on?"
In a fit of mostly desparation but a little inspiration, I decided to go as Death... after he lost his .com job (from death.com, of course). Basically it consists of all black clothes and a little face-paint, plus Death's resume (50,000+ years of death-related experience, 2 years as VP of Death Affiars at death.com).
Geeks in the Valley seem fairly appreciative, but they keep telling me that my resume will be put "on file" and that they'll "get back to me" and I shouldn't call them.
-- What is this Earth thing you call "slow"?
and he's a real hoopy frood.
Natalie Portman, chainmail, and hot grits. Yumm.
I painted up my face and now I sit in my cube like the zombie I am made out to be.
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Walmart + $2.99 makes for a good paint job.
Hwahahahahahaaa!
Care about electronic freedom? Consider donating to the EFF!
I've spiked my hair into little horns and pasted a blue outline around my orange vendor badge.
I am a blue.
since my freaking parental units think i'm too old to go trick or treating and haloween is on a wendsday and i have school tomorrow....i am a middle age princess of death and i plan to scare every child who comes to the door and refuse to give candy to the ugly and rude children. Yes, i know wrong, but it is so right...they get to go trick or treating and i dont so HA!
I am going to equip myself with *every item* from thinkgeek strapped to my torso in one form or the other. I think that the general geek aura (think: radiation) sent off by all of these devices when turned on would discourage any ruffians.
Man, does this sound like somebody hoping to get phone-sex like satisfaction? Sorry pal...you ain't getting that from a bunch of geeks...
Ignoranus: A person who is both stupid and an asshole.
Think of the HORROR, the HORROR!
You could've hired me.
I'm currently dressed as a Jedi Knight. I have the shirt, vest, belt, robe, light saber, etc. One advantage of being a Jedi is that they're expected to have all kinds of techno-doodads on their utility belts, which provides a convenient excuse for including things like cellphones and pagers in a costume. Just try that with your medaeval outfit.
There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.
Transformers! More than meets the eye!
I have a cowboy hat made for a 8 year old for a costume. It even says sheriff on it. yay for me.
"I only speak the truth"
Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
I used to go around on halloween as "Normal College Guy," but this year I decided to update my costume; I am now dressed as a grad student. :-P
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
I just tell people I'm a disgruntled computer admin. They don't seem to get it... as it's not much of a change from daily life.
What could be scarier than looking like Jon Katz?
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
I bought some of those stick-on glow-in-the-dark stars from the Discovery Channel store, and will attempt to wear a fairly accurate map of the night sky as of midnight tonight (incl. the blue moon). The only remaining task is to find lights to stand under from time to time, so it can continue to glow.
sulli
RTFJ.
Death/The Grim Reaper/Your Mother-in-Law, is my costume for the year...all i had to do was bust out my spare holocaust cloak, pickup some face paint and drove to the farm implement store to pick up a scythe. Simple, classic, and cool enaough to not completely embarass my son...
(no Im not on the brute squad, i AM the brute squad!)
.sig wanted: Must be concise, funny, and display my cleverness.
My roommate's costume this year was a t-shirt that said "Costume" in scary letters - pretty amusing.
I gathered together all of the other pieces of hardware I could find. Mainly old motherboards and cards. Stuff from 8088's, 286's, 386's, and even some 486's. I used hotglue to fashion it into a torso suit, thigh-pads, gloves, and a helmet of sorts. It's as geeky as you can get. And the way I see it, I'm setting a new trend. In 100 yrs when all the landfills are filled with old hardware, a lot of people are going to be wearing clothes like this.
As a member of the SCA, I always have plenty of medieval clothing to wear. I admit that I'm being a bit lame--it's much like a Civil War re-enactor dressing up as an Confederate soldier; it's a great outfit, but it's not something I had to go out of my way to get ahold of.
Scary, huh?
Democracy. Whiskey. Sexy. Pick any two.
One year I was out of town at a unix administration class for Halloween. I didn't have a costume, so I got some face paint and made a "/" on my forehead. I told everyone I was root, but even people in my class edged away and didn't seem to understand.
I wore a shirt the Microsoft rep gave me.
- Freed
"Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love." -Turkish Proverb
I wrote Tom Daschle's office address on a
white t-shirt, drew on a stamp, and had hot
chicks throw talcum powder at me on the
dancefloor. Well, just off the dancefloor,
it was more of a pit at the time.
-- Proud descendant of semi-nomadic cattle-herders.