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Getting Inked for Tux at OSCON

Posted by timothy on from the mama-with-a-heart-is-so-last-century dept.

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.

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  1. Please tell me you're joking... by kclittle · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... in 25 years, your body-art will be as timely as the "Primos Rules" tattoo I have.

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    Generally, bash is superior to python in those environments where python is not installed.
    1. Re:Please tell me you're joking... by kclittle · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yes, yes, rub it in... I'm old! :)
      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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      Generally, bash is superior to python in those environments where python is not installed.
    2. Re:Please tell me you're joking... by Adult+film+producer · · Score: 2, Informative

      Thanks for that link. There are a few nice ones in there but most of them are just very tacky.... This one though is a real beauty,

      http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/sciencetattoo/2008/02/cousin-to-pigeo.html

    3. Re:Please tell me you're joking... by morari · · Score: 2, Informative

      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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      "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
  2. Re:Welcome to teh Social. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Maybe you should try swallowing next time.