One joy in life for me is reading Daring Fireball; John Gruber is a sharp critic and is possessed of a keen wit about all things tech. No Apple product announcement experience is complete without a trip over to Gruber’s site to see what he has to say.

Being a keen listener, my fiance surprised me with a DF membership this past Christmas, which for $29 gets you access to a variety of members only RSS feeds and a coveted DF t-shirt. Well the t-shirts must be very coveted indeed, because in all these months I’ve not seen mine. I sent a cheerful email to Gruber (to an address he admittedly doesn’t check very often) wondering aloud about its whereabouts. But still no explanation or t-shirt; I’d have been happy with either.

Someone asked Gruber at SXSW what kind of person he might hire into his small development company. His answer?

“Someone to send out t-shirts.”

You can’t be mad at that.