Running through an iPhone dev class on iTunes U from Stanford. Alan Cannistraro is teaching the second lesson and he’s wearing this jacked with what looks like MUNK FUNK on the sleeve.

I sent him an email (I don’t know if he has time to respond) telling him how weird that is for me:

Kinda a small world moment, saw your jacket. Does it say MUNK FUNK? That was my handle back in the day (think Tripod and Netscape 4.x days). Guy I worked with said it should be Milk Filk because I drink so much milk. It stuck and is unique on the web for about a decade (unique actually means confusing). I have to explain the story every time I give someone a business card etc. It’s always been my email (vs Bob2784@aol.com) etc.

I wish I had this class at my school back in the day. It’s very technology specific but it’s got to be more useful than learning Cobol or whatever. The class/audience in the videos are surprisingly inexperienced. The questions are bad or non-existent and the teachers are just preaching to what appears to be lost souls. I dunno, maybe only the squeaky wheels are talking. I figured everyone at Stanford CS would be smoking me from the get-go.

I should go back and get my goddamn CS master or something. Watching the videos and breezing through the assignments is empowering as fuck.

UPDATE: I was way off. He writes back:

The shirt brand is “Skunk Funk”, a brand out of Spain (http://skunkfunk.com). But I see why it was hard to make out. :)

Very cool that he wrote back for such a random topic. His videos are doing very well. I don’t know the totals but the first episode got 36,000 views in the first week or something. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s reached 200k people total.