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As a computer engineer, I might have to buy one and stash it away for any future daughters.

However, we don't wear "binary code patterned t-shirts". I guess maybe conference shirts aren't as recognizably geeky.

Oh? http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/6c49...

Yeah, I thought it was a bit silly myself, but I realize it's a difficult thing to design for - we don't really have any instantly recognizable uniform they could use. I'm not sure what I could come up with that someone could guess what she is supposed to be just by looking at her and not be somewhat ridiculous.

Khaki cargo pants and a black t-shirt with "Got Root?" written on it.

I was hoping for a FreeBSD daemon tshirt, but "Got Root" would work, too.

Or Rush

Maybe the cargo pants. As for Thinkgeek t-shirts, they have sorta fallen from favor here in the engineering department--to start with, we've observed that the approach of such a shirt frequently proceeds the arrival of generally unpleasant body odors. They're still pretty big (XXXL in some cases) in the CS dept.

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