Sunday, October 14, 2007

poster I ran across tonight

I've been waxing nostalgic about Caltech, since I'm going there in a week to give a recruiting tech talk.

Tonight I ran across this.



This made me LOL. Ah, Techers, you big goofballs.

I don't recognize this room. The table and bookshelves look like the Dabney House library, but the furniture configuration doesn't fit.
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17 comments:

  1. Anonymous10/14/2007 3:51 AM

    Must be tough recruiting seniors at Caltech. There are only about 200 seniors per class and a larger percentage of graduates go the graduate/professional school.

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  2. Anonymous10/14/2007 8:18 AM

    I think you would enjoy despair.com.

    I think their mugs are the best.

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  3. Anonymous10/14/2007 10:38 AM

    it's ruddock. you can sort of see it written on the crc top edge. plus the books are way too pristine in condition to be a darb's

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  4. Anonymous10/14/2007 10:55 AM

    more techers feeling sorry for themselves in comic form: http://www.cripplingdepression.com/index/74

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  5. Anonymous10/14/2007 12:21 PM

    The photo and the slogan is *so* brillaint. Could you point us to a larger version somewhere. Please.

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  6. Unknown10/14/2007 1:06 PM

    A lot of these types of posters are a direct spoof of despair.com and certainly a parody of those corporate inspirational posters.

    The latest despair.com blog entry is too funny:
    http://site.despair.com/blog/2007/10/11/new-despairwear-your-blog/#more-182

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  7. Wanda10/14/2007 5:54 PM

    Ruddock sounds right. I think the guy in the poster is a Rudd. It's definitely not Dabney.

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  8. Anonymous10/14/2007 9:31 PM

    I demandz MOAR RACEWARZ!! kthx!!

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  9. Anonymous10/15/2007 1:50 AM

    The tagline is directly from a Despair poster:

    http://www.despair.com/fail24x30pri.html

    It was probably made with the Despair poster generator:

    http://diy.despair.com/

    All they really needed to do was insert a photo. I see the demotivational posters so much more often than the motivational ones -- but the motivational ones still show up in the skymall, so somebody must be buying them.

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  10. Anonymous10/15/2007 11:20 AM

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    -Brian Gonzalez
    bgonzalez@sva.edu
    210-683-6027

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  11. Anonymous10/15/2007 11:47 PM

    Niniane hates Asian men?

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  12. N10/17/2007 11:29 PM

    Oooh, it could well be Ruddock.

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  13. Anonymous10/19/2007 7:05 PM

    Yes, she hates everything Asian.

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  14. jetjavi7/03/2009 1:59 AM

    Ha! I took that picture! nice :)

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  15. N7/03/2009 2:08 AM

    So where is the photo taken then?

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  16. jetjavi7/03/2009 2:19 AM

    I must have taken it around my Jr. Year .. so around 2004. The guy in he photo is Karl he was a ChE class of 2003.

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  17. jetjavi7/03/2009 2:19 AM

    oh yeah.. it was in the Ruddock Library. :)

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