A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

PHP Tattoo

I hope pasting this into the PHP-powered WordPress blog doesn’t break anything. I’m not so sure because I’m not really a very good PHP programmer and am always breaking stuff — I’m more of an assembly language and microcontroller kind of guy.

Anyway, Mike got this done by Hurley at studio3tattoo in Suncook, New Hampshire.

Comments

32 responses to “PHP Tattoo”

  1. RustY Avatar

    It really doesn’t get any more geeky than this..

  2. RustY Avatar

    It really doesn’t get any more geeky than this..

  3. Wilburt Avatar
    Wilburt

    You like assembly language programming!! 😮 I had to do that in my first year of college and hated it. We were just doing basic things like polling keypads but it was hard!

    I like the font of the tattoo, very nice.

  4. Wilburt Avatar
    Wilburt

    You like assembly language programming!! 😮 I had to do that in my first year of college and hated it. We were just doing basic things like polling keypads but it was hard!

    I like the font of the tattoo, very nice.

  5. Shannon Larratt Avatar

    See, from my point of view assembly-type programming is a million times simpler! 🙂

  6. Shannon Larratt Avatar

    See, from my point of view assembly-type programming is a million times simpler! 🙂

  7. Alex Avatar

    I like to think that my xml wrists have inspired some of the programming-language based tattoo’s ive seen since i got them. I dig this one, its nicely done, but the font is pretty un-geeky.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dangerouslyawesome/183525968/

  8. Alex Avatar

    I like to think that my xml wrists have inspired some of the programming-language based tattoo’s ive seen since i got them. I dig this one, its nicely done, but the font is pretty un-geeky.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dangerouslyawesome/183525968/

  9. Wilburt Avatar
    Wilburt

    If you know what you are doing (which i dont) 🙂 or if you are programming something interesting instead of adding numbers to registers etc.
    I can see this getting nerdier and nerdier by the second 🙂 so il just compliment the artist on a job well done, lovely clean lines.

  10. Wilburt Avatar
    Wilburt

    If you know what you are doing (which i dont) 🙂 or if you are programming something interesting instead of adding numbers to registers etc.
    I can see this getting nerdier and nerdier by the second 🙂 so il just compliment the artist on a job well done, lovely clean lines.

  11. Sneezy Avatar

    i am lost PHP? and polling key pads? fill me in

  12. Sneezy Avatar

    i am lost PHP? and polling key pads? fill me in

  13. trix4therabbits Avatar
    trix4therabbits

    haha this is very amusing in it’s geekiness 🙂

  14. trix4therabbits Avatar
    trix4therabbits

    haha this is very amusing in it’s geekiness 🙂

  15. Wilburt Avatar
    Wilburt

    PHP is a programming language, you can do some things with it regarding web content but its main use would be server side applications.
    Polling keypads, had to do this last year in college as part of a module. We had a basic sorta computer (a D6 educational computer), no screen just a little display. We were told to program it, polling key pads basically means making the machine wait until a button is pressed and then show it on the display.
    Heres a link to a pdf, first slide shows the D6 in all its glory!

    http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~ray/NewCA103/D6Intro.pdf

  16. Wilburt Avatar
    Wilburt

    PHP is a programming language, you can do some things with it regarding web content but its main use would be server side applications.
    Polling keypads, had to do this last year in college as part of a module. We had a basic sorta computer (a D6 educational computer), no screen just a little display. We were told to program it, polling key pads basically means making the machine wait until a button is pressed and then show it on the display.
    Heres a link to a pdf, first slide shows the D6 in all its glory!

    http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~ray/NewCA103/D6Intro.pdf

  17. penski Avatar
    penski

    Give it two weeks and I’ll have my geeky inner lip ink… 😉

    There’s no place like ‘home’…

    *n

  18. penski Avatar
    penski

    Give it two weeks and I’ll have my geeky inner lip ink… 😉

    There’s no place like ‘home’…

    *n

  19. Wilburt Avatar
    Wilburt

    There’s no place like 127.0.0.1

    oh god ive turned! 🙁

  20. Wilburt Avatar
    Wilburt

    There’s no place like 127.0.0.1

    oh god ive turned! 🙁

  21. Tunnelled Avatar

    Heh, 127.0.0.1 is properly called a loop-back address.

  22. Tunnelled Avatar

    Heh, 127.0.0.1 is properly called a loop-back address.

  23. Meredith Avatar

    This reminds me of the tattoo that says “body” and “align=left” and so forth. I rather liked that one.

  24. Meredith Avatar

    This reminds me of the tattoo that says “body” and “align=left” and so forth. I rather liked that one.

  25. jay Avatar

    hey, that php tag won’t do anything! can you even start & end a php statement like that?

  26. jay Avatar

    hey, that php tag won’t do anything! can you even start & end a php statement like that?

  27. lala Avatar
    lala

    Eh.
    Me no likey.

  28. lala Avatar
    lala

    Eh.
    Me no likey.

  29. mikedown Avatar

    Ha, it’s really my tattoo. I just found this on a random google search.

  30. mikedown Avatar

    Ha, it’s really my tattoo. I just found this on a random google search.

  31. Shelby Melban Avatar

    Perfect just what I was looking for. Now if I can decide where I want it.

  32. Shelby Melban Avatar

    Perfect just what I was looking for. Now if I can decide where I want it.

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