Tech License Plates
Many people know about Don's infamous IUNKNWN and INFOSET license
plates, but recently I've been noticing more technology-inspired license plates around
town. Just the other day at the grocery store, I saw a car with a GUID license
plate. And not that long ago I saw INT3 on one car and FFFF00 on
another (bright yellow) car.
It's making me wonder how common this is. Does anyone out there want to admit
to having a tech license plate? We can play a mini game of Bumper Stumpers (if
you remember that show)!
Comments
- Anonymous
September 29, 2003
I have a request in for the state of Kansas for "XSLTGUY" if that counts. - Anonymous
September 29, 2003
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September 29, 2003
How about a Beetle (bug) with the plate FEATURE? - Anonymous
September 29, 2003
I knew I had been in this business for too long a few years ago when every NON-vanity plate I saw contained a three-letter acronym! - Anonymous
September 30, 2003
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September 30, 2003
I used to work with a mainframe sys admin whose lisense plate said:C8C5E7In EBCDIC this is HEX. - Anonymous
September 30, 2003
A while back I was following a guy who had TCP/1P :))) ha ha ha - Anonymous
October 02, 2003
I drive a boxster and currently have a request in for "unboxing"... - Anonymous
October 02, 2003
On-campus, I've also seen a white pickup with the license plate "RUNTIME". Hilarious :-) - Anonymous
October 02, 2003
I don't know if it counts, but I've had "TWEAK" for about 10 years... - Anonymous
October 02, 2003
I don't know if it counts, but I've had "TWEAK" for about 10 years... - Anonymous
October 03, 2003
My MR2's plate is IUKNWN for the last 6 years.My BMW R1100RT motorcyle is RMCRT (1000 points to the first person that figures that one out)... - Anonymous
October 05, 2003
Mine's ASP.NET (complete with a dot, of sorts), as I note here:http://weblogs.asp.net/gad/posts/30617.aspx - Anonymous
October 05, 2003
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October 05, 2003
I thought it was creative when the guys running the Microsoft shuttles (all those the white minivans and vans running all over campus) carefully renewed all of the shuttles' licence plates at the time the WA DMV was passing out plates starting with "MSN". IMHO, those guys deserve bonus points for getting "vanity plates" without actually ordering "vanity plates". - Anonymous
October 06, 2003
http://dotnetrocks.blogspot.com/114-1416_IMG.JPG - Anonymous
October 06, 2003
I don't have a geek plate of my own, but after I read this post I saw two plates that ended in PDF, one CMD and one XSL. Thanks :) - Anonymous
October 14, 2003
I have CODE, though I seriously considered "INT 3" - I guess that one wasn't as original as I thought...I picked CODE for its obvious programming meaning, but also because it has a whole bunch of other interesting interpretations. - Anonymous
October 17, 2003
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October 17, 2003
Every time I see a car with a JVM plate, I feel bad for the driver. If I was the kind of person who got vanity plates, I'd definitely get JSCRIPT (that's what my Project Gotham Racing profile has ;-) ). I saw a rice boy car with the plates ALL4SHOW the other day (a bit off topic, but it was funny). - Anonymous
November 12, 2003
Heh..my PGR plate was HORSHU (my IRC/IM nick), but I wouldn't really get it for my car, since it is also a wrestler, and I don't want wrestling plates. I was going to do a binary #, but I can't even get a single character on a plate...I had an MR2 Spyder, though, so maybe I should have done MR2 in hex. - Anonymous
December 09, 2003
This is more Trek releated then Tech, but my Kansas license plate is NX74205 . Not many know what that means probably, which is how I like it. Confused the DMV people when I ordered it too.^^ U.S.S. Defiants registry. - Anonymous
January 16, 2004
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April 11, 2004
Free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. - Anonymous
April 11, 2004
Free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. - Anonymous
May 10, 2004
I have a CA plate - IUNK0WN. - Anonymous
June 04, 2004
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July 16, 2004
My favorite tech license plate is really a math one. My friend has ABELIAN. For those whose algebra is a little rusty, an Abelian group (named after the mathematician Abel) is a group whose operator is commutative, like addition and multiplication. Therefore, an Abelian is one who commutes!!! - Anonymous
July 25, 2004
dianying xia zai:http://www.kamun.com/
movie down:http://movie.kamun.com/
mp3 xia zai:http://music.kamun.com/
engage:http://club.kamun.com/ - Anonymous
July 27, 2004
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August 02, 2004
Before I moved to MO, my IL plate was MOR GHZ 1 (IL has free vanity plates of certain patterns)
Except it didn't have a space, so everyone always asked: What's morg-huzz? - Anonymous
February 06, 2006
I totally agree with what you're saying. I wish more people felt this way and took the time to express themselves. Keep up the great work.
Andrea Jasperson
http://www.ildmvcenter.com - Anonymous
March 22, 2006
I collect coin-op arcade games. My plate says NSRTCOIN: http://www.thebrokenjoystick.com/pictures/albums/brians-sidekick/MVC_001F_001.jpg
Brian - Anonymous
April 08, 2006
Create a vanity plate and see it on a supercar. This site is a lot of fun. platevanity.com - Anonymous
April 11, 2006
I live in Costa Rica, and there's no option to get vanity plates here... You register your car, and you get a 6 digit consecutive number which you can't change ... So if you get a number that is easy to remember you're lucky.... Now what are the chances that a geek guy like me of getting the plate 480640?? Well that's what I got when I registered my MR2 Supercharged!! - Anonymous
May 10, 2006
I can't resist appreciating the owners of this blog. Good information. Well Done.
Bert Linert
http://www.ildmvcenter.com - Anonymous
July 24, 2006
I have the Mass plate that says "BINARY"...i should have actually made it say "B1N4RY" but MA has some regulations about character placement.
