einstein's Journal: Upgrading my .sig

I've been using this same .sig on slashdot just about since I've had an account, which must be late 98, early 99, at the latest. anyway, I was still in highschool when I wrote it, that's for sure. Geekcode seems horribly out of touch with the times, I mean.. look at what it has to say about Macs! sure the lack of command line bothered me then (would even more now, with how much at home I am in bash these days) but today, the new Macs make me drool. That is just one example of how dated that geekcode is. For prosperity's sake, here's the old one:

GIT/CS/PA d- s: a--- C++++ UL P+ L+(++) E- W++(+) N o? K? w O- M- V PS+ PE- Y+ PGP- t++(+) 5(+) X+ R tv+ b++ DI++ D+

of course, use the decoder page to translate it.

Now, for my new .sig... all the "Cool Kids" seem to be linking to their journal entries. that's a lot of pressure :) I mean, I can barely keep my webpage updated with anything relavant :)

can you tell it's a slow day at work? :)

I think I'm gonna leave my .sig blank for the time being, till I think of something catchy. I know lots of people use it as there tiny little Slashdot ad space. If I ever have something interesting to go to on my website, I might do that.

What do you think makes a good .sig?

I'd say

[Xaoswolf]

If you don't want to link to your page, then link to something fun, like this [ravenblack.net], this [gtonline.net], or maybe this [somethingpositive.net].

A quote

[FortKnox]

A quote that makes you think, makes you laugh, makes you stop and think about how the world is, or all of the above.

I had quite a few I used to like, but now that I've got so many fans, I do the journal thing (to get more fans) ;-)
But I recently added the "paradox of a man" which is tied to my user info (wonder if anyone caught that?), which is what my sig would normally be about, if I didn't do the journal thing.

Re:A quote

[subgeek]

quotes are good, but usually not if many others have the same quote.

i've always been amused by the .sig [slashdot.org] that this guy [slashdot.org] uses. but ymmv.

my .sig probably isn't all that witty, amusing, or enlightening, but it is entertaining to me as a reminder of the stupid things i do sometimes. it also (hopefully) reminds people not to take me too seriously. i can sound more emphatic than i am sometimes, though i think it is more a problem with my spoken communications.

i used to have "Der Papst hat in Spiez das Speckbesteck zu spät bestellt" as my .sig, but it took me a while to spell it right, as it is a german translation of a swiss german tongue twister. looking back, it makes me wonder what could possibly have made me think that was a good .sig to have.

The ones I look at usually...

[Pengo]

Are links to somewhere interesting. (Not, not just autopr0n!!) :)

I have found a lot of interesting websites by following peoples sig. I also find it interesting to go to someones homepage, and read a bit about them. It tends to make the slashdot 'experience' a bit more personal and interesting.

I find the sig often effects the tone of my responses. My .sig is quite negative, and I need to change it. Maybe people will write nicer things in response to my gibberish if I had a friendly sig.

Cheers

an update...

[Pengo]

Ok, so you inspired me. I changed my .sig too. Now it points to my website, with nothing more than a link to a freeware application my brother and I wanked out playing with OS X.

Not much about me (my sig really lies), but will be some day. Maybe it will inspire me to put some personal things up.

Question

[jimmyCarter]

Will you link to my journal then? ;)

Sigs are overrated, anyway...