Tuesday, April 18, 2006

j.

inanity alert! (you have been duly warned)

we really don't have enough "in" jokes in kde. most of the ones i'm familiar with arose several years ago and are less and less relevant / interesting / odd.

so here's a suggestion to cure that: my middle initial is j. turns out i'm hardly alone in this, being joined by thiago, wade and doubtless others. to take it to absurdity, i'm all for putting a middle 'j.' on everyone's soon-to-be-spiffy-and-available kde business cards. Eva J. Brucherseifer, Waldo J. Bastian, Sebastian J. Kugler, Dirk J. Mueller, George J. Staikos, Inge J. Wallin, David J. Faure, Matthias J. Ettrich .... you get the picture.

and as wade observed: "why 'j'? because it comes before 'k'!" can't argue with reasoning like that ;)

or we could be less obtuse and use K. instead of J. as a spin on the whole "why is everything named k-this and k-that?" thing. then people can explain when asked, "kde is my middle name!"

or perhaps this is why i never get to design things like business cards at the places i work. and with that, i think i've officially had too much coffee this morning. whew.

7 comments:

John Ellis said...

Definitely J, for one thing my name is John and I have often been very upset about the lack of J in use (it's the second least used letter in the alphabet... K is the least used funnily enough).

There are 26 letters in the alphabet and 126+ elements not one of them has a J in their name- the periodic table is bias against J and it's time we as open source users show our support to the downtrodden, letters included ;)

Anonymous said...

I like the idea. We could have it stand for 'Jay', a la Homer Simpson.

Illissius said...

(the above post is mine; Blogger neglected to log me in.)

Anonymous said...

Cool.

I have already been doing this since long before I got involved with KDE or and got to know you.

My real name does not contain any middlename, but there are so many Schmidts in Germany, that I decided to invent one myself.
I picked "Jan", which starts with a "J".

Is you "J" authentic?

Olaf J. Schmidt

Anonymous said...

I'm down with "J". "J" is such a strong and fortright letter. Names that start with "J" insure a solid sense of character, and moral fortitude, and justice, and loyalty, and courage and all that good stuff. So to all those Johns, James', and Jyunmi's, good on you.

;D

Andy Kopciuch said...

J makes it sound like you have a porn star name. "Andy J". Really ... computer programming is only my hobby. ;-)

Martín J. Ponce said...

Yeah. i have four names, and i use only the 2nd and 4th.

btw, i dont have a real middle name,
and the 3th begings with J.
=)