365 T-shirts - the reasoning

This blog should be sub-titled: a journal of my life in geek.

I get my geek on with things about which I am geeky: comic books, Baseball, Ultimate, science fiction, my favorite bands, books I have read and loved, and Jungian psychology to name some of the most frequently traversed subjects.

I began this project simply as a way to count my T-shirts. I own a lot of T-shirts. But how many do I have? Do I have 365? We shall find out.

When I started this blog, I thought about how each T-shirt means something to me. I bought it for a reason, after all. I set myself the task to post an entry about a new T-shirt every day as a way to simply write something every day, a warm up for writing fiction, which is my passion. Writing is like exercise. Warm ups are good for exercise. But after completing a month of blogging about T-shirts, I have learned that this blog serves as a journal; it documents my life in geek, sort of a tour of my interests in pop culture. The blog serves as a tool for self-inventory, for assessment and analysis of self and the origins of self, for stepping through the process of individuation in catalogues, lists, and ranks.

The blog also made me aware that I have some serious gaps in my T-shirt ownership, and I am in the process of collecting some new T-shirts for several of the great popular culture icons that I truly love. Stay tuned.

I was also a bit surprised that people checked out my blog and continue to check it, read it, and even comment on it. I am very appreciative of this readership. Please feel free to share your thoughts in my comments section. I will respond.

Also, please note that I have moved the original introductory text to the side bar. And now, I present to you the most recent entry of 365 T-shirts: a journal of my life in geek. Thank you for reading.
(Second Update - 1310.24. First Update - 1306.05 Originally Posted - 1304.25.)

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

T-shirt #237 - KUDL Retro 2007 Logo Purple Long Sleeved T-shirt

T-shirt #237 - KUDL Retro 2007 Logo Purple Long Sleeved T-shirt




It is getting to the point that I do not remember which shirts I have featured in some categories. I just took a picture of myself, which I might as well share, in a shirt I have already featured.

On a side note, I am coming up with all kinds of way to misspell "shirt." I doubt too many of these make it through; however, when I have short instead of shirt, the spell check will not catch it.

Anyway, I had wanted to save the purple retro-2007 shirt for next week to get more candid photos out in the world and tell the story of the shirt order saga, which is still ongoing. I will still tell the story. But it may wait for next week.

I may find by year's end that the more amazing thing is not how many shirts I own, but how many KUDL specific shirts I own.

How many do I really need?

This is short today. Grading Robot's deadline is tomorrow morning. Grading Robot would have an easier time if everything else stopped, and all Grading Robot would have to do is the work Grading Robot is designed to do.

Alas, this is not the case.

Stop the world. I want to get off.

Almost done re-reading Ender's Game.

Loaded up on Greek Mythology video last night and had a good discussion about the mythology of ETs and UFOs.

Woke up in the middle of the night by malfunctioning smoke detector, adding one more thing to my to do list, which is quite long a brutal. Luckily, the break for grading robot should allow for completion of many of these tasks.

For your edification and amusement, I present again a former grading robot content, which I had already presented a second time in T-shirt #208. And now for a third time, content from the classic T-shirt #36.

Thanks for reading. See you tomorrow once Grading Robot has powered down to half power (as there are still four other classes that need grades).

See what I mean? Grading robot. The only way to survive such a work load is to streamline the process, find ways to speed up the repetitive feedback, and watch the clock. It's all about rhythm, repetition, and a certain tempo. Even so, grading written assignments can be quite time consuming as each student receives individual feedback. Yet, the process is much like Kraftwerk's music. Clockwork grading machine. Machine, Machine.

"We are the robots."

GRADING ROBOT.

So, this Kraftwerk shirt really calls to mind the idea of my work as Grading Robot; this is one of Kraftwerk's robot shirts. (I have another; stay tuned.) The shirt's image is just the kind of thing I love. It would be even better if Kraftwerk's name was not on the shirt. The image speaks volumes.

Damn, I love this shirt.

I have reams of material to assault your senses about Kraftwerk, but today's post is dedicated to how I think of myself as Grading Robot when I wear this shirt (and often when I am not wearing this shirt). In perspective, I am operating on--at best--six hours of sleep. I got up at 5 a.m. this morning to finish grades due at 9 a.m., which sounds easy enough, and it is when I am not so exhausted. But the work is repetitive and only takes a small portion of my brain capacity.

Grading robot.

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COUNTDOWN TO THE END OF THE YEAR: 128 shirts remaining

- chris tower - 1311.13 - 11:16

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