As soon as I got off the road, I hopped on Photoshop and the first artwork for RegEx was done. By the end of the weekend, I had a prototype. The response was suprisingly positive. I expected to be mocked, but instead got many compliments from people I didn't even know (...how to tell when you're in the Silicon Valley...)
One thing led to another, and before I knew it, I had five designs done and ready to be printed. $2000 later, I was ready for my first showing of Halibut Stuff to the world, at DefCon 6.0 in Las Vegas, summer of 1998. I was worried that some of the designs wouldn't sell very well; I expected to come home with a fair number of shirts and sell them on the web when I was done.
We sold out by the end of the second day. It was a truely amazing sight to see people wearing _MY_ shirts. Thanks go to everyone who handed over $20 of their hard earned money for one of my shirts. Ya'll rock. (Especially that guy who traded me a Butt Set for one. :) -mts 1.16.99
founding of Halibut Stuff.