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David Pescovitz at 1:28 pm Tue, Feb 2, 2010

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I got a chuckle out of this geek graffiti in the bathroom of a Chinese restaurant near UC Berkeley. I've seen this gag before in San Francisco, but larger on an outside wall.

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  • Anonymous

    At an engineering school, in very small print which made you lean forward to read it at the bottom of the stall door in front of you: “If you are reading this, you are sh*tting at an angle of 15 degrees” – hilarious

  • Thorzdad

    [Buffering]

  • Anonymous

    my wife has been using this similar image as her profile pic on various sites for a couple of years now

    http://www.thismakesmelaugh.com/Photos/Graffiti/large/Loading__Please_wait_______416.jpg

  • Anonymous

    it’s long life vegi house on university ave. i saw it the other day.

  • Hattmannen

    Judging by the pixels that progress bar is at 46%.

  • archanoid

    That progress bar is WAY past 2.5 percent

    • zikman

      think it says 25%
      either, it’s a bit off

      • archanoid

        Upon closer inspection I see you are correct. I think I need to schedule a visit to the eye doc.

  • Anonymous

    The home of geek graffiti:

    http://www.crescatgraffiti.com/blog/

  • Anonymous

    May be a tech geek, but they are rubbish at mathematics – its more like 40%!!

  • Anonymous

    Download the brownload!

  • David Pescovitz

    A spinning beachball would also be fun.

  • xzzy

    General failure writing output 2:
    Abort, Retry, Ignore?_

    • mdh

      win win win win win.

  • oasisob1

    I like the grout graffiti (groutfiti?) that I’ve often seen in University bathrooms. Book titles written in pen on the grout between tiles:
    Grout Expectations
    All Thing Grout and Small
    etc.

    • Gloria

      Never seen that in all my time in university bathrooms (for legitimate purposes!). Love it.

  • Anonymous

    A ‘Download complete’ progress bar drawn next to the toilet paper would be good too.

  • Anonymous

    That is a dirty bathroom!

  • Zan

    A real geek would’ve labeled that the 46% it actually is.

  • El Mariachi

    This gum tastes like rubber.

  • ill lich

    I bet the geek that wrote this will happen upon this post and chuckle to himself.

  • Anonymous

    Funny stuff! I always get a laugh from the ‘Press Button – Receive Bacon’ graffiti on the occasional hand dryer. ‘Uploading’ might be a little more appropriate for typical bathroom antics. ‘Downloading’ conjures up some truly disturbing images…

  • seyo

    There’s some similar geek graff on the wall of the parking lot on Grand street, just before West Broadway. If I remember correctly it says: [ • rec ] with little lines around it suggesting a blinking light.

  • Anonymous

    Should he not have written Uploading?