How you know you’re in Silicon Valley

by on May 20, 2006

Car with geeky bumper sticker

I saw a good example of why I knew I was in Silicon Valley this weekend. This car, in front of me, had a bumper sticker that said, simply:

There's no place like 127.0.0.1

What's worse, is I knew just what it meant. :-)

I'm still trying to figure out, though, why a Gnome was in Montana. Maybe they'll come to Gnomedex? (This was shot on a car outside the hospital in Billings, MT, where my mom was staying).

Gnome car

  • I used to have a bumper sticker reading "Friends don't let friends boot OS/2".
  • GNOME = Linux! Or maybe it was a real gnome.
  • GNOME, in this case, is probably short for Genome. As in Human Genome project. Most likely a doctor/scientist of some sort. Plenty of that sort of thing going on in Billings.
  • I like the shirt that says:

    "There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't."
  • My favorite shirt, which I bought from badwool.com :
    (Front): Thank you for calling Technical Support...
    (Back): ... Your ignorance is my job security.
  • Speaking of Montana and all:


    127.0.0.1

    127.0.0.1 on the net

    where the (fill in here!) 's get set

    etc.
  • Joe
    There is no place like localhost?!

    ah.. There is no place like ~
  • Mark
    World of Warcraft player.
  • Draco
    Home is where you hang your @.
    Goto http://www.commonplacebook.com/humor/computers/...
    If user=geek then user=mvp

    mvp=most valuable programmer
  • JonUK
    Hello, Darling! I'm localhost!

    I don't get it. Surely you mean "No place like ~"

    I've been away a while

    JonUK
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