Hi!

[luis fernandes <elf@ee.ryerson.ca>]

Shorts?  Canadian summers are very cold-- the air conditions set room
temperature at about 15 C. No one who works inside wears shorts.

No watches, please-- I'm a klutz and I've broken every watch I've
worn. Also, I promised that I would never buy a watch that didn't
automatically do DST->EST. 

I now carry a Visor instead. I was very disappointed it didn't do
DST->EST but its usefulness in other aspects more than outweighed
this limitation.

Clocks, hmmm...maybe. Instead of stars, though, they should be
comets-- the Oort cloud contains comets.

You can't go wrong with T-shirts. Also, if they are long enough, you
don't feel naked.

Anyway I did a bit or research on Oort last night: 2000 was the
centenary of his birth (d.1992); his motto was "Looking ahead in
wonder".  I didn't scribble this down, but I think he also discovered
that galaxies spin and pinpointed the position of the Sun in our
galaxy.

I was thinking something like a Gnu distorted in the shape of our
Galaxy. On the back, a picture of Oort or the Oort cloud and the
motto and the Gnus motto (which has "cloud" in it too).

There are more possiblities with T-shirts then with other novelty
items.