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IDL T-Shirt Makes You Feel Like a Rock Star [message #46114]

Tue, 01 November 2005 09:10

David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001

Senior Member

Folks,

Just thought I would make a plug for getting your own IDL
T-Shirt. I've been wearing mine while I wander around the
Hawaiian Islands and I'm beginning to feel like a rock star!
Complete strangers are coming up to me, shaking my hand,
telling me how much they "loved the book" and "it got me
through graduate school". I sit down on the plane to read
my new mystery novel (P.J. Tracy, author, check it out!)
and I have to spend 30 minutes discussing IDL with someone
who has used it almost as long as I have.

But the clincher happened this weekend as I sat in a small
town restaurant having my lunch. A woman, a LARGE woman,
came up to me and told me I was the "best looking man she
had seen in a LONG time!" I'm telling you, I'm *sleeping*
in this shirt now! :-)

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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Re: IDL T-Shirt Makes You Feel Like a Rock Star [message #46393 is a reply to message #46114]

Mon, 14 November 2005 08:59

David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001

Senior Member

Haje Korth writes:

> Hey, I have the same shirt. Maybe I should put it up for auction at ebay
> together with your testimony....

How much are you asking for it? I'd buy it!

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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Re: IDL T-Shirt Makes You Feel Like a Rock Star [message #46460 is a reply to message #46114]

Wed, 23 November 2005 12:00

Mark Hadfield
Messages: 783
Registered: May 1995

Senior Member

Haje Korth wrote:
> It sounds like THE T-shirt is the hot item of this Christmas season. Maybe I
> should hang onto it. :-)

Maybe you should sell it on comp.lang.idl-pvwave for loads of moola.
Though with all the fuss it's funny that no-one's actually started the
bidding for mine yet...

--
Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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Re: IDL T-Shirt Makes You Feel Like a Rock Star [message #46477 is a reply to message #46114]

Wed, 23 November 2005 06:55

mmiller3
Messages: 81
Registered: January 2002

Member

>>>> > "David" == David Fanning <davidf@dfanning.com> writes:

> For the shirts, you have to buy an IDL 12-pack license and
> then plead with your sales rep to toss one in for free. :-)

All I had to do was go to the users' group meeting at the SMN
meeting. Maybe they felt sorry for me after seeing how I was
dressed?

Mike

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Re: IDL T-Shirt Makes You Feel Like a Rock Star [message #46479 is a reply to message #46393]

Wed, 23 November 2005 05:04

Haje Korth
Messages: 651
Registered: May 1997

Senior Member

It sounds like THE T-shirt is the hot item of this Christmas season. Maybe I
should hang onto it. :-)

Haje

"David Fanning" <david@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1de2705e9f0187fc9896ae@news.frii.com...
> Haje Korth writes:
>
>> Hey, I have the same shirt. Maybe I should put it up for auction at ebay
>> together with your testimony....
>
> How much are you asking for it? I'd buy it!
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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Re: IDL T-Shirt Makes You Feel Like a Rock Star [message #46488 is a reply to message #46114]

Tue, 22 November 2005 21:09

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

Senior Member

lefsky@gmail.com writes:

> How do we get this shirt- other than taking the itools challenge?

You can only get them for outstanding service to the IDL
community. Oh, wait, no. For that they give you something else.
Sorry.

For the shirts, you have to buy an IDL 12-pack license
and then plead with your sales rep to toss one in for
free. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say that if JD doesn't have a shirt yet,
it is NOT because I haven't been begging on his behalf!

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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Re: IDL T-Shirt Makes You Feel Like a Rock Star [message #46490 is a reply to message #46114]

Tue, 22 November 2005 17:03

Mark Hadfield
Messages: 783
Registered: May 1995

Senior Member

lefsky@gmail.com wrote:
> How do we get this shirt- other than taking the itools challenge?

What are you prepared to offer?

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Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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Re: IDL T-Shirt Makes You Feel Like a Rock Star [message #46491 is a reply to message #46393]

Tue, 22 November 2005 16:03

lefsky
Messages: 8
Registered: April 2002

Junior Member

How do we get this shirt- other than taking the itools challenge?

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Re: IDL T-Shirt Makes You Feel Like a Rock Star [message #46575 is a reply to message #46114]

Mon, 28 November 2005 15:45

Mark Hadfield
Messages: 783
Registered: May 1995

Senior Member

David Fanning wrote:
> Haje Korth writes:
>
>
>> I am starting to wonder whether the "IDL 6.2 Beta Team" shirt had similar
>> effects. This would doubel my assets instantly! David, your are the epxert,
>> can you commetn on this?
>
>
> Oh, absolutely! Anything with "IDL" on it is a certified
> babe magnet. I think this even extends to the Interface
> Definition Language. :-)

I'm sorry to contradict you David, but the "Powered with IDL" tee shirt,
is *much* more of a babe magnet than the "IDL 6.2 Beta Team" shirt. I'm
wearing mine right now and they're beating the door down!

PS: at least one of the statements in the previous paragraph is true.

--
Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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Re: IDL T-Shirt Makes You Feel Like a Rock Star [message #46594 is a reply to message #46114]

Mon, 28 November 2005 06:18

David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001

Senior Member

Haje Korth writes:

> I am starting to wonder whether the "IDL 6.2 Beta Team" shirt had similar
> effects. This would doubel my assets instantly! David, your are the epxert,
> can you commetn on this?

Oh, absolutely! Anything with "IDL" on it is a certified
babe magnet. I think this even extends to the Interface
Definition Language. :-)

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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Re: IDL T-Shirt Makes You Feel Like a Rock Star [message #46596 is a reply to message #46460]

Mon, 28 November 2005 05:36

Haje Korth
Messages: 651
Registered: May 1997

Senior Member

I am starting to wonder whether the "IDL 6.2 Beta Team" shirt had similar
effects. This would doubel my assets instantly! David, your are the epxert,
can you commetn on this?

"Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz> wrote in message
news:dm2hpa$ps2$1@newsreader.mailgate.org...
> Haje Korth wrote:
>> It sounds like THE T-shirt is the hot item of this Christmas season.
>> Maybe I should hang onto it. :-)
>
> Maybe you should sell it on comp.lang.idl-pvwave for loads of moola.
> Though with all the fuss it's funny that no-one's actually started the
> bidding for mine yet...
>
> --
> Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou"
> m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
> National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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Re: IDL T-Shirt Makes You Feel Like a Rock Star [message #46630 is a reply to message #46114]

Wed, 30 November 2005 13:44

Mark Hadfield
Messages: 783
Registered: May 1995

Senior Member

Ben Tupper wrote:
> Mark Hadfield wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry to contradict you David, but the "Powered with IDL" tee
>> shirt, is *much* more of a babe magnet than the "IDL 6.2 Beta Team"
>> shirt. I'm wearing mine right now and they're beating the door down!
>>
>> PS: at least one of the statements in the previous paragraph is true.
>>
>
> Wait a minute, you didn't say which side of the door they are on!

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought David said *fridge* magnet.

--
Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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Re: IDL T-Shirt Makes You Feel Like a Rock Star [message #46642 is a reply to message #46575]

Wed, 30 November 2005 05:02

btt
Messages: 345
Registered: December 2000

Senior Member

Mark Hadfield wrote:
> David Fanning wrote:
>
>> Haje Korth writes:
>>
>>
>>> I am starting to wonder whether the "IDL 6.2 Beta Team" shirt had
>>> similar effects. This would doubel my assets instantly! David, your
>>> are the epxert, can you commetn on this?
>>
>>
>>
>> Oh, absolutely! Anything with "IDL" on it is a certified
>> babe magnet. I think this even extends to the Interface
>> Definition Language. :-)
>
>
> I'm sorry to contradict you David, but the "Powered with IDL" tee shirt,
> is *much* more of a babe magnet than the "IDL 6.2 Beta Team" shirt. I'm
> wearing mine right now and they're beating the door down!
>
> PS: at least one of the statements in the previous paragraph is true.
>

Wait a minute, you didn't say which side of the door they are on!

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