On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Eric Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > In case more people are interested, I originally posted the following to > ruby-core: http://mid.gmane.org/[email protected] > > Eric Wong <[email protected]> wrote: >> zuerrong <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 2010/12/10 Tony Arcieri <[email protected]>: >> > > And Unicorns are fantastical mythical creatures! >> > > >> > yep that indicates it's not prepare for the actual use. >> >> There's no shiny website, commercial support, or even a web-based >> bug tracker, so of course it's not ready for actual use! :> >> >> >> Anyways, in case somebody wanted to know how I named it: >> >> I originally wanted to call it "Unicron", in honor of a track posted by >> a Kiwi[1] many years ago to a Usenet group we frequented: >> >> http://unicorn.bogomips.org/unicron.mp3 >> >> I swapped the "ro" for "or" because: >> a) it might be confused as a "cron"-workalike >> b) I could get sued by whoever owns the rights to the name (Hasbro?) >> >> The "Uni" has two meanings: >> 1) it signifies "one", being single-threaded compared to its ancestor >> 2) it shares 3 characters with its intended platform: UNIX >> >> >> Of course, unicorns are awesome, too :) It's also a constant >> reminder to never take things too seriously ;> >> >> >> [1] - It's been many years, but I could try getting in touch with him >> if you guys like it :) >> -- >> Eric Wong
Hah! I often typo "unicron". -Greg _______________________________________________ Unicorn mailing list - [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-unicorn Do not quote signatures (like this one) or top post when replying
