You’ll probably want to know that it’s Branden, not Braden . Make sure he doesn’t find out, he’ll probably rip your head off (in an affectionate kind of way
Why didn’t you include a link to in the first place?
Looks like it was borrowed from some old war propoganda or the Eagle war comics I used to read.
Definately nice style of artwork. Maybe I’m missing some particular reference which makes it funnier.
Way-back-when, when Branden (thanks Wouter) was still the “Debian X Strike Force” leader, he (to the best of my understanding) got sick of answering the “when will Debian include XFree86 4″ questions and random other bitchings, and so proceeded to put that wartime-propaganda up with the caption “How about a nice cup of shut the fuck up?”
It snowballed into some huge deal with people who take either themselves or Debian waaaay to seriously, and were shocked! I say, shocked! and appalled that there was a (gasp) curseword on the Debian X11 page.
![[How about a nice cup of shut the fuck up?]](/images/branden-hackergotchi.png)
strange… i don’t see a hackergotchi on branden’s entries…
http://planet.debian.net/heads/branden.png
go to planet debian, it’s on there…
You’ll probably want to know that it’s Branden, not Braden
. Make sure he doesn’t find out, he’ll probably rip your head off (in an affectionate kind of way 
Direct link to the Branden Head
http://planet.debian.net/heads/branden.png
Why didn’t you include a link to in the first place?
Looks like it was borrowed from some old war propoganda or the Eagle war comics I used to read.
Definately nice style of artwork. Maybe I’m missing some particular reference which makes it funnier.
You could always just link to the hackergotchi in question
Alan:
Way-back-when, when Branden (thanks Wouter) was still the “Debian X Strike Force” leader, he (to the best of my understanding) got sick of answering the “when will Debian include XFree86 4″ questions and random other bitchings, and so proceeded to put that wartime-propaganda up with the caption “How about a nice cup of shut the fuck up?”
It snowballed into some huge deal with people who take either themselves or Debian waaaay to seriously, and were shocked! I say, shocked! and appalled that there was a (gasp) curseword on the Debian X11 page.
Good times, good times…
Oh, sweet, finally Branden adopted the hackergotchi I made for him!