I came across a post with advice about dating a developer from Matt Mullinweg’s blog. Granted it’s very particular to her situation, but in general it’s a good read.
For the record, I only have a few geek shirts and usually just wear them around the house or when I’m working-out. I have yet to have someone compliment me on my FreeBSD shirt, but the Chicks Dig UNIX shirt always draws a lot of mixed comments.
“lacy black teddy with an Apple logo on the crotch”
That’s a pretty good idea…
I thought the tone was mildly condescending, but I suck at relating to most females. It is a step up from advice for military girlfriends/spouses I’ve read — that usually makes my skin crawl.
Are normal people embarrassed by geek shirts? Vogon’s coworkers cheer when I wear my #!/usr/bin/girl shirt. Heh.
I’d imagine there would be some sort of licensing issues with doing the Apple logo thing without their permission. Especially given what a narcissist Jobs is…
I’m not sure about the “normal people” question. I’m a pseudo-geek really. I’ve always been into computers, software, Unix, programming, etc., but not the other things that typically go with it like role playing, LOTR, gaming, etc. While I like to break-out the geek stuff every now and then, for the most part I think I dress fairly normally other than my Threadless fetish.
I probably used to sport the geek stuff more, but as I’m approaching my late 20’s, that sun is beginning to set for me I guess.