T-Shirts for Gay Bears

T-Shirts for gay bears: they're all the rage. But sometimes finding these gay bear themed t-shirts is a pain in the ass. I know every time I look for them I have to start from scratch. So here's my resource list.

Dpcted Apparel

Based in St. Louis, they make signature shirts with nothing but words printed on top of (usually) bold colors.

Wooftease

Once the most awesome bear shirt company on the interwebs but now it's gone. I guess Mickey decided he wanted his ears back. You can still order some of their designs on Zazzle and Cafepress, but the designs are more limited: Wooftease on Zazzle and Wooftease of CafePress.

Gay Bear Clothing on Zazzle

Speaking of Zazzle ... Get your Zazzle on with a bunch of clothing for gay bears. Lots of funny stuff, and a lot of old-school weird stuff!

Gay Bear T-Shirts on CafePress

CafePress has a good selection of shirts. There's a lot of duplication of the shirts on Zazzle, but some unique ones as well. 

Cubstock

A couple of neat originals over here!

Killer Bob Graphics

Who could forget about Killer Bob? The master of awesome, quirky, scary, and unique t-shirts never pulls the punches. 

beartshirts.com

A nice collection of unique shirts. Of course, just as with Wooftease, there is the occasional problem with trademark and copyright infringement. Pick these up before they get a cease and desist letter too!

BearCubHouse

While researching this article, I ran across a new site that I've never seen before. Here are some very interesting designs! 

Gay Bear T-Shirts on Spreadshirt

There are some really cool designs here too. 

The Bear Outpost

This one is new to me, but I believe I've seen some of these designs elsewhere. Some of these logos look to be trademark infringing, so get them while you can!

Gay Bear T-Shirts on eBay

Don't forget about a big selection on eBay! And oh, by the way, woof!

Bear Cub Clothing

Bear Cub Clothing has some of my favorite designs. 

Suggestions?

Do you have any suggestions that are not on this list? Let me know!

Adventures in Virtualization: Windows/SQL Server

So it turns out that you can't install a 64-bit OS inside a Windows 7 Pro Virtual PC. So here we go with Oracle's VirtualBox. So far so good ... I figure I'll install the Enterprise version of Windows 2008 R2 SP1. I started with 50GB of hard drive space and 4GB of RAM. Installed in less than 20 minutes. Very fast! Next up: SQL Server 2012!

Windows 7 Issues: Wake-on-Lan (WOL) for Windows 7 Made Easy!

Sometimes you just need to wake your computer up to use RDP to get to it! But if you're conscious of saving energy (and hence money), you've got your sleep settings on. In that case, you need WOL.

Windows 7 Issues: Wake-on-Lan (WOL) for Windows 7 Made Easy!

Multi-monitor Support in Remote Desktop

There's a cool little check-box in Remote Desktop on the Display tab under Options: Use all my monitors for the remote session. It would be awesome, except that it doesn't work. I found that out today. A very quick Google search and I found the answer:

Remote Desktop Multimon – Just Kidding!

Hidden deep inside it is a vague description of the problem. Under “Which editions of Windows 7 include multiple-monitor support for Remote Desktop Connection?” it admits that you need Windows 7 Ultimate or Windows 7 Enterprise Editions. Even then it doesn’t say whether the host or the server needs to be running Ultimate/Enterprise, but a bit of testing confirmed that it is the host (the machine you are connecting to) that needs the extra licensing power.

Blargh. Whatever. Who actually runs Ultimate or Enterprise at work? Those are -- I think -- for the most part -- high end versions that nobody actually uses. 

Is Electricity the New Smart Drug? - Percolator - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Is Electricity the New Smart Drug? - Percolator - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

Awesome! I was involved in this study! So exciting!

Misunderstood Dead Metaphor

Concept: A dead metaphor (or nearly dead metaphor) that is so poorly understood that people say it wrong (usually a small phonetic/phonological change) to help it make sense in their cognitive-linguistic domains. Two examples follow. 

• The IT Crowd, Season 4, Episode 6, "Reynholm vs. Reynholm"
• http://video.yandex.ru/users/lina-friebus/view/643/ (Russian site, hopefully legal)

Scene 1 (starting about 7:00 minutes, office scene)

Jen: I mean, I don't expect to be put on a pedal stool, but please... Show a little respect.

Roy: Oh, I'm sorry, you don't expect to be put on a what?

Jen: On a pedal stool.

Roy: A pedal stool. What's a pedal stool?

Jen: Oh you know, you put women on it when you admire them. You know, the phrase.

Roy: Oh yeah, no, the famous phrase: to be put on a pedal stool. PEDESTAL!

Jen: What?

Roy: PEDESTAL is the word! What's a pedal stool? Did you really think there was such a thing as a pedal stool?

Jen: Shut up, everyone has blind spots.

...

Roy: A pedal stool!

Scene 2 (starting about x 15:00 minutes, courtroom scene)

Roy: That's right, and furthermore, I would like to say at this point that I think this whole case to be a damp squid.

Lawyer: Thank you. No further questions.

Jen: Oooh, I have one more question, your honor.

Judge: Yes?

Jen: Eh, what did you say?

Roy: What?

Jen: What did you say the case was? May I have it read back please?

Court Reporter: "I believe this entire case to be a bit of a damp squid."

Jen: A damp squid? What does that mean?

Roy: Oh, oh Jen. It's um... It's an expression. Eh, it means that I, uh, believe, that everything that's been said in this case, everyone already knew.

Jen: Hmm, yes. But did you say "damp squid?"

Roy: That's right.

Jen: Did you not mean "damp squib?"

Roy: No it's squid. What's a squib?

Jen: It's not squid. Squids are already damp. 

Roy: Hence the phrase.

Jen: Your honor, please. 

Judge: It is squib. I must say, I find it extraordinary that you, a man in your early thirties, could have reached this point in your life without knowing that it is squib.

Roy: I think it's squid!

Jen: I have no further questions, your honor. 

Roy: Your honor, no, wait wait wait!

Jen: That will be all.

Roy: Everyone has their blind spots!

Jen: I said, THAT WILL BE ALL!

...

Jen: [closing arguments] Think of the simpleton who thought the phrase "damp squid" was correct.

What's this really called???? Does it have a name????

official music site update

About three years ago I started a redesign of my official music website, but basically abandoned it.

I got bored, so I completed it today.

Check it out if you want.

the music efesar: official site

If, for some strange reason, it looks like the old site, just SHIFT-reload.

Q10 as a typewriter replacement

I love typewriters. They give me the chance to not get on "fucking" Facebook for an hour. I can concentrate on what's in my head. But my typewriter collection is out of hand, so I think I'm switching to Q10.

Five Hundred Thousand Words

It's true that he can stare at her face and guess wrongly that she's angry, because that's the mask she wears to distance him. She's accustomed to that mask. She sculpted that mask so carefully with her own experiences. But if he knew how she really felt, he'd cry with her. She knows that humans are clunky, bio-chemical organisms and she commands five hundred thousand words in her language, yet her poet's laboring lifetime can barely string them together to simply communicate one hour's worth of real emotions to a few meager souls. So inside she laughs, cries, screams, elates, shivers -- but she can't find the time to write the poetry that would move his soul, and even if she did, he doesn't read poetry.

BTW Podcast - the new Btalk?

So it's rather difficult to subscribe to the the BTW Podcast (apparently, the new BTalk) in iTunes. It took me a while to figure it out.

BTW Podcast

So there's the link in case you're looking for it! Just click "subscribe in iTunes" and it should add it to your podcast list.