Ask YC: What are you being for halloween?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=350516

by jasonlbaptiste • 18 years ago

10 30 18 years ago

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We can have fun here, right? :-) I'm a ninja, no not a PHP ninja. At least not tonight.

noodle2• 18 years ago

i am being a hacker, as in, i'm lame and sitting here working on projects tonight because i can't go out.

Anon84• 18 years ago

heh... that makes two of us. Damn bug!

ojbyrne2• 18 years ago

three now.

jasonlbaptiste2• 18 years ago

dude, im gonna get disappointed with downtown palo alto tonight and get back into this f'n flash 10 bug on uploading files.

brlewis• 18 years ago

I went out as the man with the yellow hat. My kids were a cat, Darth Vader, and a giraffe.

sown2• 18 years ago

A fat loser who stays at home or work all the time, plays warcraft nonstop and pines after girls he knew in high school 15 years ago.

sown2• 18 years ago

I'm not joking. :(

ojbyrne2• 18 years ago

Every great thing we do is for the women we pine after. I believe that's been proven scientifically.

yummyfajitas• 18 years ago

If I didn't have to work tonight, I'd dress like a Ruby programmer going to a job interview:

http://incredimazing.com/static/media/2008/03/24/6fee530ffd1...

jasonlbaptiste2• 18 years ago

dude, i was almost a ninja rockstar. then i realized id be a bad job posting...

noodle2• 18 years ago

i see at least a little ajax in that job posting.

dmoney2• 18 years ago

This must be like in the Princess Bride, where they each pretend to be left-handed, so the other will underestimate them.

raganwald2• 18 years ago

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasb/2990554584/

pchristensen2• 18 years ago

Scuba diver is such a cop-out, although a very impressive one. I was too lazy to put on the whole suit last year so I was just a snorkeler, so kudos to you!

raganwald2• 18 years ago

I left the tank off, and the wife wouldn't let me wear flippers while carrying the baby. But I went with the long hose, thigh pocket, harness and wing.

You'll notice I left the steel backplate at home for this one. Too lazy to lug a heavy rig down the street even without a steelie 130 on it.

dmoney2• 18 years ago

A grammar nazi, complaining about your using "being" as an action verb.

dfranke2• 18 years ago

A grammar nazi would actually be a hilarious costume if you could hang out with a crowd that wasn't too easily offended.

dmpayton• 18 years ago

I was a gorilla, my 4-month old daughter was a monkey, and my wife was the zookeeper.

...Except we didn't get a single trick-or-treater, so I spent my time downing a bottle of two buck chuck and installing Ubuntu 8.10. :)

cperciva• 18 years ago

I dressed up as a bar code.

Or, put another way: My 2006 Google SoC t-shirt was at the top of the pile when I woke up today. :-)

rms• 18 years ago

Black Jesus

mrtron• 18 years ago

A pirate - fighting various ninjas that appeared. Some friends brought food and candy that I looted.

crabl• 18 years ago

I put on a fedora and went as the guy with a hat from XKCD.

dfranke2• 18 years ago

I wore my fencing gear, but I was fencing so I'm not sure if that qualifies as a costume per se. If I weren't broke I'd have worked my épée into a musketeer costume.

wynand• 18 years ago

80's rocker with big long hair and cowboy boots.

jadence• 18 years ago

I was a beer keg

Brushfire• 18 years ago

employed.

thorax• 18 years ago

I went as Henry Paulson, with a briefcase overflowing with bailout cash.

rshao• 18 years ago

I was an unemployed investment banker. I wore a suit with all my shirt buttons off by one, tie hanging really loose, and a hobo sign (ripped cardboard) around my neck saying, "Jobless - Will work for food."

Ask YC: What are you being for halloween?

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