(One-word title style credit goes to ~stevenf and his early blog posts).
I was thinking the other day about our obsession with monkeys. Maybe it isn't 'ours' as a company, but rather 'ours' as in the 'royal we' sense of a view, but still, there's damn lot of monkey references in everything we do.
The first obvious thing is the APE system. Of course, we always been high on acronyms - back in my days in @soft I picked the name 'MacAmp Lite' not because it sounded particularry well, but because it made a good acronym - MALT. MACAST, btw, is an acronym too, and I can take the credit for such a horrible one ("macassed", some people shouted). It actually means 'Macintosh Advanced Sound Technology'. ;) But who cares now. Either way, when we were picking up a name for Application Enhancer, we did picked that particular one because it made a nice acronym - APE. I think this is when the Monkey Era in this company has begun.
To make things worse, first APE modules (and the APE itself) had all kinds of weird icons featuring monkeys, and even the current one has a monkey on it (it's a cyber-monkey, perhaps, but yet it is still a monkey).
But the monkey saga does not stops here. Now we happen to refer to all the company employees as 'monkeys'. We got Support Monkeys (hi Gregg and Alex!), Coder Monkeys (hi Rosyna and me!) and even a Biz Monkey (hi Brian). Of course it's nowhere official, but I happen to find the term 'let our monkies handle that' more and more often in my conversations with my partners.
Some other people get infected by this Monkey Syndrome I've got and create software that is primate-induced as well. Take Zaius, for example, which is a reference to the Planet of Apes, or Primate, a pre-APE Manager utility to manage your installed APE modules.
All in all, as you have figured out, this is just strange. I am afraid to think where else monkies will pop up over the coming years of Unsanity (no, we're not planning to stop anytime soon. we have fun here!). Scary.
So thank you for spending your precious time reading this pointless rant about monkeys. Then again, this is half of what blogging is about, right?
And just so you can see how much monkeys are into my life: I have used the word 'monkeys' 17 times in this post.
Posted by slava at 07:56 AM
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I see now I made a terrible mistake not naming mach_override and mach_inject with some monkey theme. Maybe version 2.0...
Posted by: rentzsch on August 10, 2003 11:20 AMJust so long as people keep in mind that monkeys are people too.
Posted by: jay dub on August 10, 2003 5:45 PM[them:james:~/Desktop:1:51am:2017] -> grep -i -c monk blah
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so there we go =p
Is the APE for Panther available yet for the lonely ones running Panther full time and missing all the cool stuff we registered for ;-)
Holy monkey nuggets...Primate was mentioned on the Unsanity site.....*faint*
what a hunk of crap that was....
Posted by: Brandon Delcamp on August 16, 2003 7:46 AMTremendously worded, keep up the tremendou work
http://www.members.aol.com/bnjmcalister/spencer/_borders/monkeys.jpg ;-)
Posted by: Alex on January 13, 2004 3:23 AM
We here in China have now the monkey year.
Gretings from ShenZhen/China
Posted by: opodo on January 23, 2004 8:54 AM