There are two bloggers out there that got me off my arse and into putting my dribble online. Daring Fireball happens to be one of them. If you have not read it, check it out, he is an excellent writer, takes the time to do proper typesetting and layout, and has a nice clean site to boot. Pretty much everything this site is not.

My only past complaint was he did not post enough. His posts are so detailed and generally spot on with my thoughts I was always “feening” for more. The lack of frequent posts is what prevented me from tossing some coin in his direction. With the addition of his new shirts, this has changed:

As for the second common complaint regarding the membership system, that one tended to go something like this: You’re a good writer and Daring Fireball is one of my favorite web sites, and so I might be willing to support your efforts by doing your membership thing, but, and I hate to say this, you don’t write frequently enough. If you wrote more often and more regularly, I’d join.

I’ll be announcing the fix for that one later today.

That makes me happy, and I may join anyway, but those shirts, just not going to happen on this end. There are now three shirts to chose from, the old school, and two new designs. First, the old school.

Great shirt, simple, grey on grey, elegant, and hell, it’s got a star on it, and stars are just friggin cool.

Onward to the second design, the I ❤ DF, which is a bite on the I ❤ whatever shirts you see for every city, most frequently S.F. and N.Y. Of course, the heart has been replaced by the circle star, which is kinda cool but also tired and not what I was hoping for. I could almost tolerate it, but then he goes and brings in a white shirt with a black ringer on it. Mostly male readership, mostly male “wearership”, at least, I am guessing, not gonna go over well. If the sleeves are ringed as well, which as far as I can tell is a mystery, this thing is becoming a closet ornament. If there is any way to say you lean a little on the wrong side of fence, a two toned shirt certainly will do it.

Ok, no problem, there is still one left.
“Your PC is a POS”
While I can appreciate the Chicago typeface, I am not sure how many others will. And with the lack of that appreciation, you end up with the same “I am a nerd, here is my black shirt to show off my dandruff, and hell yeah, I got it at ThinkGeek“. I just don’t get it, it does not inspire anyone to ask what it means, it does not pull in more readership, it’s just generic. As a side note, the type is printed too low, four fingers from the neckline, yes, thats a screen shop industry standard.

The old shirts rule, the entire site and it’s content kicks ass. Yes, I am covering my ass here, as I suspect I may get some flack for this post, but I really do enjoy the site, and check in on it every day. I see the old v1 shirt is still available, which makes me happy, the other two, well, I am sure we will hear all about how retarded my opinion on them is.