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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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    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 spoco2 · · Score: 4, 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.

    3. Re:Please tell me you're joking... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      you're right mom, can I go now?

  2. Open-Source Tattoos? by FlyingSquidStudios · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does that mean I can edit your tattoo to my own specifications as long as I give you credit?

    'Cause I've got the needles right here...

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  3. BSD Daemon by jlarocco · · Score: 3, 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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    Maybe not
    1. Re:BSD Daemon by Cow+Jones · · Score: 3, Funny


      If you're going to do something stupid like get an OSS logo tattoo, at least get something more cool than a penguin.

      Yeah, if you want to look scary, don't settle for anything less than a Hans Reiser tattoo.

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      Ah, arrogance and stupidity, all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari
    2. Re:BSD Daemon by Azundris · · Score: 4, Funny

      Can't speak for other women, but I read those as "I never want any contact with a real woman 'evah.'"

  4. My wife thought they were fake by kc8jhs · · Score: 3, Funny

    I got there pretty early and caught the announcement about free tattoos. My wife showed up a bit later, and told me I should go get one. I told her I didn't think so, and she responded that those were, "the best looking temp tattoos," she'd ever seen.

    Then I told her they were real. She was in shock.

    Her introduction to the open source/geek culture is progressing well though.