In a streak of INCREDIBLE luck, "The guy looking for tech swag got matched to the guy who runs one of the largest Linux and open source conferences in North America.". These were the words in the mail I got merely 10 minutes after matching.

My santa continued to buid up expextations. The subject line for example, read "You hit the jackpot, MOFO!" and he continued the email with "You just wait a couple of days, I have something very special for you."

After two weeks of waiting for the shirt to arrive, I got mail last Friday from the customs office to fetch my parcel and explain the content. Oh the fun.

So I went there and in good customs office custom, they first asked me what size of parcel I was expecting. So I told them "A t-shirt". Then the presented me with the box. (I wanted to get a picture, but it was not possible inside the office. In my excitement I totally forgot later on. Imagine a largish box.)

I said "A probably very well protected shirt. Maybe. Or maybe two very well protected shirts."

We opened the box to find not one, not two, but eight (EIGHT!) shirts inside. That's two months worth of shirts! (Just kidding, four of the shirts are dark, so make that three months!)

In detail I got:

Fedora shirt

RedHat shirt

Openstack shirt (very nice green)

MongoDB shirt (my colleagues are SO jealous right now)

Debian+HP shirt (very nice colours)

SELF (South Eastern LinuxFest) 2011 shirt (has Google on back)

SELF 2010 shirt (also w/ Google)

Georgia Tech Football jersey

I got exactly what I wanted out of this. Eight times(!!!) the amount of exactly what I wanted. That is why I win Redditgifts T-shirts 2012. Thank you very, very, very much. Wow.