The world's geekiest license plates
This slideshow is filled with images of vanity plates so geeky that they prompted someone else to take a picture and post it on Flickr.
The opportunity presented by vanity plates is so often wasted by those who would put their actual name on their car. Or worse, those who put the name of their car on their car – e.g. "MY BMW." Even those who put some generic message in there, like "HCKYFAN." Yawn. I have much more respect for those drivers who give us a little more insight into who they are, what really forms the foundation for their identity as a person – even if that thing is Debian Linux.
This slideshow goes out to all those drivers who aren't afraid to say it loud: I'm a geek and I'm proud. It's filled with images of vanity plates so geeky that they prompted someone else to take a picture and post it on Flickr. Enjoy.
Send any entries you might have to rfrancis@nww.com .
AFK
This acronym means "away from keyboard," obviously. And I should hope so. Don't type and drive, kids.
Source: Flickr
COS 0=1
I don't mean to go off on a tangent here, but where can I sine up for a plate like this?
Source: Flickr
PEBKAC
Tech-support speak for "problem exists between keyboard and chair." See: ID-10T errors.
Source: Flickr
UBR L33T
If you really were uber-elite, there wouldn't be a need to put it on your license plate, would there?
Source: Flickr
MAPCAR
Possibly obscure, unless you're familiar with Lisp programming, but that just raises its geek quotient.
Source: Flickr
The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?
TCP IP
Faster than a speeding packet! Here's our first reader-submitted plate.
JEDI CIO
A Jedi can feel the Force flowing through him… and his Porsche. Another reader submission. He writes: "I get lots of honks, waves and thumbs-up..."
Always searching for... something. Another reader submission - keep 'em coming!
RM -RF /
Another reader who likes to live life on the edge. Don't try this at home, kids.
IHASATRBO
Reader introduces the next big craze: LOLCARZ.
Reader writes: “This was on my grandmother's 88 Lincoln Town Car...notice the expiration year. She got this plate in the 90's before GOOGLE existed. When she passed away in '99, my brother got the car and the plate. Unfortunately, when he moved to CA the plate expired. I should have transferred it to one of my vehicles if the state would have allowed it. The pronunciation was a little different for us...phonetically it was ‘gu – gle’. My brother gave her the nickname back in the 50s because he said Grandmas live on a farm and she only had a house. Guess she was the original geek.”
NULL PTR
Another reader submission. You all rock.
NTWK DR
The doctor… is in. Another reader submission.
NETCDF
Reader: "It's an open source data access library, portable format, and Data model for scientific data."
DVBYDT
Reader writes: "dV/dT -- the derivation of acceleration in calculus. I'm a rocket scientist by degree, but so far I've had to explain this to everyone I've encountered."
ANY KEY
Go ahead. Press it. Another reader submission.
SFDCJEDI
A reader, Salesforce.com admin and Star Wars geek combined her interests to create this unique plate. She writes:
"Don't believe me that I'm a Star Wars geek first? My old plate from a previous car: MTFBWY"
DATAMAN
By day, reader Dataman is a database administrator in Las Vegas.
SYN ACK
Reader and network engineer is down with TCP.
WATT-AMP
This reader had to add the two dots to make it "Watt divided by amp." Using this information, any geek worth his pocket protector should be able to figure out what kind of car he drives.
VOIP
Vehicle over interstate parkways? Another great reader submission.
IPV6
The next generation of geeky license plates.
XBOX GMR
Am I really driving or am I playing Need for Speed?
Another reader submission.
KLINGON and NCC1701
Parking space… the final frontier. Another reader submission.
SPUMCO
This plate made me think of my old pal Stinky Wizzleteats and his song about a whale. No! It was a song about being happy – the “Happy Happy, Joy Joy” song.
APPLE II
This car is way too young to remember its license plate's namesake.
USEUNIX
More Unix! What else did you expect?
Many thanks to another observant reader.
SQRT-1
This reader’s plate is even geekier than it first appears, once you hear his explanation:
Here's my Plate. I have the only Imaginary License Plate in Pennsylvania.
The Governor is Number 1, and I'm i.
Who has more power?
Square Root of Minus One
AS 400, ISERIES, POWR6, and POWER7
Writes this geeky reader: “Picture of my current and last 3 plates. I think you will see a theme. Note to IBM: Quit changing the name already!”
SUSE USR
OpenSUSE Ambassador's diplomatic plate. Another great reader submission.
<p><b>HAXOR</b></p>
<p>This is not the Ducati featured in “Tron: Legacy,” but we won’t split hairs.</p>
W3B GUY
W3B = WEB, for those who know.
UNIX
What makes this plate all the more special is the reader's comment: "I have had this New Hampshire 'Live Free or Die' UNIX (spelled with all capital letters like 'UNIX' should be spelled) plate on Jeep Wranglers since 1989, and I will keep it until they pry my keyboard from my cold, dead fingers."
FRTYTWO
Ah, the Ultimate Answer. But what was the question again?
BITBOY
Deep down, aren’t we all just made up of zeros and ones?
DTRACE
Says our reader: "DTRACE is short for 'Dynamic Tracing,' a feature in the Solaris 10 (and later) UNIX operating system. It is used for system and application performance and observability. Someone asked me if I was a 'Dick Tracy' fan. Ugh!"
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