Ask YC: What are you being for halloween?

i am being a hacker, as in, i'm lame and sitting here working on projects tonight because i can't go out.

:(

I went out as the man with the yellow hat. My kids were a cat, Darth Vader, and a giraffe.

A fat loser who stays at home or work all the time, plays warcraft nonstop and pines after girls he knew in high school 15 years ago.

If I didn't have to work tonight, I'd dress like a Ruby programmer going to a job interview:

http://incredimazing.com/static/media/2008/03/24/6fee530ffd1...

A grammar nazi, complaining about your using "being" as an action verb.

I was a gorilla, my 4-month old daughter was a monkey, and my wife was the zookeeper.

...Except we didn't get a single trick-or-treater, so I spent my time downing a bottle of two buck chuck and installing Ubuntu 8.10. :)

I dressed up as a bar code.

Or, put another way: My 2006 Google SoC t-shirt was at the top of the pile when I woke up today. :-)

Black Jesus

A pirate - fighting various ninjas that appeared. Some friends brought food and candy that I looted.

I put on a fedora and went as the guy with a hat from XKCD.

I wore my fencing gear, but I was fencing so I'm not sure if that qualifies as a costume per se. If I weren't broke I'd have worked my épée into a musketeer costume.

80's rocker with big long hair and cowboy boots.

I was a beer keg

employed.

I went as Henry Paulson, with a briefcase overflowing with bailout cash.

I was an unemployed investment banker. I wore a suit with all my shirt buttons off by one, tie hanging really loose, and a hobo sign (ripped cardboard) around my neck saying, "Jobless - Will work for food."

I left the tank off, and the wife wouldn't let me wear flippers while carrying the baby. But I went with the long hose, thigh pocket, harness and wing.

You'll notice I left the steel backplate at home for this one. Too lazy to lug a heavy rig down the street even without a steelie 130 on it.