Geeky sysadmin portrait

Posted by Cory Doctorow, July 8, 2008 6:18 AM | permalink

Shardcore sez, "I think I've just painted the geekiest picture ever. It's a portrait of my friend Richard, he's a sysadmin. I've painted him in a server room, with Marvin the Paranoid Android. Holding a ZX Spectrum. I think you'll agree it ticks all the boxes of English geeks of a certain age..." Link (Thanks, Shardcore!)

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#1 posted by Cory Doctorow , July 8, 2008 6:51 AM

Fixed!

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#2 posted by Takuan , July 8, 2008 6:51 AM

minor eddies and ripples in the clear, flowing stream

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#3 posted by pedmands , July 8, 2008 6:59 AM

Cory- doesn't seem to be fixed on this end. FF3 OS X 10.5.

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#4 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

, July 8, 2008 8:07 AM

Seeing no problems, FF3 OS X 10.5.2.

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#5 posted by ROSSINDETROIT , July 8, 2008 8:15 AM

A-OK FF3 XP

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#6 posted by zuzu

, July 8, 2008 9:29 AM

Looks fine on Camino 2.0a1pre, OSX 10.5.3.

(Apparently we're all a bunch of slowbies to upgrading to 10.5.4. I just really really really hate rebooting. Maybe OS-11 will adopt a No Kernel architecture (e.g. Erlang) for live updates without ever rebooting.)

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#7 posted by morehumanthanhuman , July 8, 2008 9:50 AM

BOW BEFORE ME, FOR I AM ROOT!

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#8 posted by ZehnKatzen , July 8, 2008 1:02 PM

Ticks all the boxes? Hell, the ZX Spectrum in the pic hits it out of the park!

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#9 posted by George Curious , July 8, 2008 3:59 PM

Classic Marvin!

"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and what I am I doing? Holding a qwerty keyboard for some pasty human"...

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#10 posted by Bonnie

, July 8, 2008 9:51 PM

Awesome geek painting by Shardcore indeed!
BTW, if you want to read more about this artist, I had the pleasure of interviewing him awhile back for my Artist Profile Series on Grrl.com:
http://www.grrl.com/artshardcore.html

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#11 posted by JDspeeder1

, July 8, 2008 11:46 PM

I'm not quite fluent in British Geekdom, but I think he left out references to Doctor Who, Discworld, and Red Dwarf. Still, around 6 boxes checked (3 from the sysadmin himself) is something to be proud of.

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#12 posted by Philbert , July 9, 2008 12:50 AM

Was I the only one to see Bill Gates in this picture?

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#13 posted by Rickmccl , July 9, 2008 11:31 AM

Yeah I'm not comfortable with having to kneel before Marvin to type at that keyboard, I wish he'd hold it a little higher so I could have the dignity of a chair ;-)

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#14 posted by shokk , July 27, 2008 8:45 AM

I can just see the conversation that led to this picture:

"I must paint you!"
"Ummm.... yeah..."