I have been planning doing tshirts for a while under the company ‘Geek Threads’. I finally took the plunge and have shirts to sell here at RailsConf.
They are black shirts, with white monospaced text on the front and back. The front reads ‘Git push: just the tip’ and the back reads ‘just a little bit. just to see how it feels’. It’s a case of first come, first serve (I will be carrying some with me at all times but may not have your size). You can also custom order if I have run out or such. They are selling at $20 each (sorry guys, have to make a profit.)
I’m accepting ideas for both text-based and graphic based tshirts. So if you have any ideas, message me. I pay 25% profit royalties.
To find me, either look for one of the Hashrocketeers, email me or @zachinglis on twitter.
Cheers.
As always I forget to say until the last minute.
I and the rest of the Hashrocket team will be going to RailsConf next week, so if you see me there, do stop me and say Hi. 
As I am in between projects and I am sick (glandular fever), I have been playing Grand Theft Auto 4. I completed it an hour ago and have since run around shooting everything I can and mucking about a bit.
It is a great game, the graphics are awesome and the gameplay is great. I find it is not that innovative. Nearly everything has been done before, just not so well. The two things about it the most (apart from multiplayer) is the small details it puts in. Cars get scratched, your phone interferes with the radio and such. Secondly is the story-line. You get to make small changes and you watch Niko make some well informed decisions but always the wrong ones.
For instance, there is small choices you can make ( would prefer there were more) and as opposed to games like Fable and Star Wars, i feel connected to Niko so I want the best things to happen to him, so you generally choose the good path.
X-Play had suggested that it would take 100 hours to complete. I think this includes running around and doing the jumps, flying under the bridges and such small “hidden achievements”. I have completed the game 70% (the storyline is completed) and it has taken me 35 hours.
There are a few things I dislike.
- If you muck up a mission, you start from the very beginning of that mission. You have to do the chase and such again, and there are some LONG missions.
- Learning how to disarm someone at the beginning of the game is only useful for that perticular scene, onwards from that you never need to use it again.
- Often you will cover behind an object in the wrong manner, exposing yourself.
Stats
- Playing time 35 hours
- Longest game: 7hrs 30mins
- Cash: $580,756
- Missions attempted: 150 (all tries on all missions)
- Missions passed: 94
