User:QDot/Circuit Board Dildo

Refers to the header image of the Slashdong website

History
When I bought the Slashdong domain in December of 2003, I was just getting back into doing web projects. I hadn't done much graphic/web design in a while. The first header graphic for Slashdong was this (God, this is worse than showing pictures of myself as a teenager):



Luckily, I realized this sucked a whole bunch (except for the /8========D symbol, something we still use every so often today. Yes, that is comic sans as the dong font. Funny how the dropped curve on the D fits so nicely). Unfortunately, the next revision wasn't much better.



While better because it wasn't blatantly ripping off something, it was still way, way too serious for the site. However, for ALL of 2004, this is what the site looked like. Just that header, and a promise that someday, I'd actually do something.

Someday rolled around in October of 2004, specifically, October 17th, 2004, at exactly 2am. It was at this exact moment that I was sitting in a strip club, last call happened, and the breakfast bar opened. The rest, as they say, is history. From this hallowed night came the idea for Eating Out, the food review site for strip clubs. I also realized that I had the perfect domain name to host it on, since I hadn't done anything with Slashdong yet.

I realize that the site can't fucking POSSIBLY go live with that header. It's boring, it doesn't really have all that much to do with sex, hell, it's STERILE.

Where the vision of a circuit board dildo came to me from, I have no fucking clue. I would say in the shower, since that's where good ideas happen for lots of people, but I had not yet reached the point of thinking about circuit board dildos in the shower (oh, the days on innocence), so I'm just going to say it was a random epiphany. One lathed, circuit textured curve and bump mapped cylinder later, and what you see here came to life.



And god damn, it was motherfucking GOOD. I'm still impressed with myself over that.