This is the Yahoo! T-shirt I wore today: Hack Day Q4 2006. This was the first internal hack day I participated in and it was a lot of fun.

For the preceding 6 months, I was on a committee discussing various problems engineers have to deal with on a daily basis. One problem discussed at length was the ability to find answers for questions you have. There are a lot of places to find the answers, but they’re often still to hard to find. After a while the meetings were a little too much talk and too little action, so I volunteered my team to build a solution. We spent 24 hours creating an internal site that provided an amalgomation of Y! Answers, a wiki and email. It was really fun working with the team and seeing how much a dozen engineers could get done in 24 hours when they’re all working on the same problem.

Our project didn’t “win”, but it’s still being used, which I consider a big accomplishment. Interestingly, an idea I had 5 years ago and gave to another guy to implement DID win.

So I worked for 24 hours and all I got was a t-shirt. This “medium” shirt runs a bit small, but it’s not too bad. Can you find the printing error on it?

Acquired: 12/8/2006
Rating: 4/5

I had to go to Santa Monica today and didn’t feel like being a billboard for Yahoo through the airports, so I picked this one. If not for the little Yahoo on the back, you wouldn’t even notice it it was a Yahoo shirt.

This one was from the Yahoo! Tech launch last year. It’s hard to believe that’s it’s been over a year since then.

In another coincidence, I wore this same shirt exactly 1 year ago today. Here’s the original post. I didn’t like this shirt much last year, but I didn’t mind it today. It’s quite comfortable.

I think I hate tag clouds more than I did last year, but this shirt is still wearable. Until next year, t-shirt…

This is probably the only Yahoo T-shirt I’m actually embarrassed to wear. It’s just too red and too weird to wear a giant F around. I told people it was F for Friday. Yeah, sure. Anyway, here’s the story on this one.

This is is one of those I’ve acquired in the last year. I’m not sure why these were made, but I guess everyone in Media Engineering got one. It’s not a bad shirt except for the pukey green color. The “I am Y!ME” slogan was the winner of a contest to find a snappy tagline. I haven’t heard it since. Perhaps it’s because it’s dangerously close to “Why Me?”.

Acquired: Fall 2006
Rating: 2/5

I thought I wore this one last year, but I guess it was one I found after. This was the first Yahoo! T-shirt I got, shortly after we were acquired by Yahoo. It’s a little small, but you gotta love the vintage jumping Y! guy.

Acquired: 6/2001?
Rating: 4/5

Today’s shirt was Flickr Fiesta. Not a bad one.