The shirt does not say please. It says NOT FRIENDLY in the flat, declarative register of a hazard placard, then DO NOT TOUCH beneath it, and it brackets the whole message with two visual conventions borrowed from industrial signage: a yellow caution triangle and a hand with a diagonal slash through it. I am looking… Read More: The ‘Not Friendly Do Not Touch’ Shirt: Reading a Warning… »
The garment preview shows a dark shirt with very small, centered lowercase meh. lettering. No animal illustration, no pride variant, no decorative frame — just the word, the period, and a lot of dark fabric around it. That scale is the whole argument. A slogan shirt usually works by increasing visual loudness: bigger type, brighter… Read More: The ‘Meh’ Shirt: A Study in Visual Loudness and Dismissive… »
You have three carriers to put through one BUC. The datasheet gives you a single linear-power number, and the temptation is to subtract a backoff, add a margin, and call the link closed. That number is only meaningful if you know which measurement produced it. For three carriers, the figure of merit that matters is… Read More: Sizing a BUC for Three Carriers Without Trusting the Datasheet:… »
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. I keep coming back to the notification banner. Not the cat — the cat is doing its job, pressed so close to the lens that the porch siding behind it reads as a green-tinted blur. The banner is the part I want to talk… Read More: The Doorbell-Camera Shirt: Reading ‘There Is Motion at Your Front… »
Two words in that shirt are doing all the work, and they are not the ones you think. The artwork reads LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW, set around four smiling root vegetables — a carrot, a radish, a beet, and an onion — with their roots visible in soil. The… Read More: The ‘Let’s Root For Each Other’ Shirt: Reading a Slogan… »
There is a rectangle of speckled black-and-white on a dark ground, a binding strip down the left edge, and a white ruled label headed COMPOSITION. Inside that label, an outlined ghost and a pumpkin sit where a name and subject line would normally go. That is the whole design of the composition notebook shirt from… Read More: The Composition Notebook Shirt: Reading the Label Before You Wear… »
Pulling the GPS antenna is not a fault. It is a controlled experiment, and like any experiment it is only worth running if you decide in advance what you are measuring, what you are measuring it against, and what statistic you will report. The 70 MHz carrier in your modem or upconverter is not the… Read More: Pulling the GPS Antenna on Purpose: Measuring GPSDO Holdover Drift… »
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. I spend a lot of time looking at spectrum analyzers. The good ones have a trace that sits flat, a noise floor that doesn’t wander, and a marker that lands exactly where you expect it. The bad ones have spurs. You learn to spot… Read More: The ‘Meh’ Shirt: A Study in Visual Loudness and Dismissive… »