Paul loaned me a book by Wil Wheaton called “Just a Geek”.

“Where have I heard that name before?”, I hear you say, and yes it is the same Wil Wheaton who starred as Wesley Crusher in Star Trek - The Next Generation.

He writes really well, but I won’t review the book just yet. I’ll do that as a BotTF entry later.

Wil, in his book, mentions his weblog which can be found here. I followed one of the links he has to Think Geek, a website with all the stuff IT geeks just love. I’m not a geek. I’ll say that right now. But it has lots of cool things, even Monty Python stuff. Monty Python was/is great. I can almost recite line-for-line Monty Pythons Holy Grail.

I’m NOT a geek!

I’m NOT.

Oh who am I kidding.

Anyway, I was browsing through the t-shirts and came across one with the following motif:


$DO || ! $DO ; try
try: command not found


You might not need to be a geek to understand this. But it helps.

Once the AU$ settles down against the US$ I think I might get myself one of these. Not that I think I’m a geek, but jeez! How cool is that on a t-shirt? Would Yoda be proud?

I’m NOT a GEEK!

I SWEAR!

But. FarmerBen wearing a Think Geek t-shirt? I can hear Yoda saying about my impending purchase “hmmm, unexpected this is”.

And it would be.

Once I get the shirt I can also imagine him say, “hmmm, how you live this long, with a brain of this size? hmmm?”, with one pointy ear, like one eyebrow, raised slightly higher than the other.

Don’t worry, my little green friend, it won’t happen too often. The force is strong and the dark side will be resisted.

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