Stephanie Zvan posted her Science Online 2011 panel over at her blog, and I thought I’d take this opportunity to remind you of it, since I was at the panel as the live-tweeter. You can see me on the video in the front row sporting my screaming green Scicurious t-shirt and seriously lacking in the hair department.
It’s All Geek to Me from Smartley-Dunn on Vimeo.
The audio quality is a bit iffy, but the subject matter is spot-on. How do you folks communicate in geeky ways?
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Scicurious
August 16, 2011 at 10:41 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I am totally diggin’ that tshirt. :)
Jason Thibeault
August 16, 2011 at 10:51 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It’s a nice shirt, yes. You shameless self-promoter. :)
I shouldn’t say that or I’ll get a science shuriken in the face.
sinned34
August 17, 2011 at 5:07 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
How do I communicate in geeky ways? Usually via t-shirt:
I roll twenties
No, I will not fix your computer
I see dead servers [splunk]
Jenova’s Witness
Could you come back in a few beers?
Shirt of Smiting +20
Pong
(Yes, I got lazy and didn`t include links to all of them)
Jason Thibeault
August 17, 2011 at 6:42 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Okay, I LOL’d at Jenova’s Witness. Could never wear it though. As good as FF7 was, I much prefer the plot of FF6.
sinned34
August 17, 2011 at 7:12 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I hear ya, Jase. As much as I love Nova Science Now, Carl Sagan’s Cosmos is the best science television show in history, which forced me to burn the Nova t-shirt my nephew got me for my birthday.
FFVI might have a superior story, but I still love FFVII. Even if I didn’t enjoy the game, I’d still have to wear that shirt because my father-in-law is an elder in the Jehovah’s Witness church. I also plan on wearing it when I have a chat with some Mormons this Sunday, thanks to the tagline “Church Of The One-Winged Angel of Latter-Day Summons” written on the back of the garment.
Jason Thibeault
August 17, 2011 at 7:52 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Okay, I wouldn’t go reductio ad absurdum like that! It’d end up in my closet only to be taken out when I have an appreciative audience. My problem (and it’s MY problem) is, I like to wear t-shirts that reflect things that I find to be awesome. The whole one-winged angel thing actually kind of bothered me. Not just the cutting-off of Jenova’s wing, or the Oedipus complex Sephiroth had going for him, but the theme of raping the planet to serve her purposes (or Shinra’s purposes) like a planetary parasite seemed derivative of Chrono Trigger. I know, I know. Every RPG plot is derivative. I found it a bit too on-the-nose.
Jason Thibeault
August 17, 2011 at 7:54 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I speak geek. *bows*
Clifton
August 17, 2011 at 10:26 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Damn, dude. I might have more hair than you.
Jason Thibeault
August 17, 2011 at 11:01 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Agh. Bastard. I KNOW. My hair started disappearing at a much faster rate than yours. It’s like one day I had a mullet, the next I had a skullet.
Stephanie Z
August 17, 2011 at 11:31 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Mullet? Pics! Must have pics!
Jason Thibeault
August 18, 2011 at 12:10 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=5653786534&set=t.580062348
You’re welcome. For what it’s worth.
Now let us never speak of this again.
Clifton
August 18, 2011 at 9:33 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
And you don’t even have kids! Watch out, Jodi, baldness that extreme might be contagious.