Re: [Fresco-devel] Names

Themed names are spiffy. So, since Berlin has become Fresco, how
about:

Berlin -> Sistine Chapel 
        an implantation of fresco - get it? 
Warsaw -> Frieze 
Babylon -> Mosaic
        crud, already taken...
Babylon -> Entablature 
Prague -> Cornice
Moscow -> Tapestry 
        something to hang over the plain, ugly wall (or hide the
        enormous crack)

Well, you get the idea. 

I once sat down with a friend and wrote up a list of edged weapons to
help Systems name all of the Sun Blades Northeastern bought last
year. They were using names of stars - a terrible idea, since this
gave us such memorable names as gwergizbrizgiblgrof.ccs.neu.edu.

My friend studies Hungar (a weapon-happy Chinese martial art), so we
went a little overboard making the list. I look forward to the day
when I can send mail from 

hu-deh-dao.ccs.neu.edu (butterfly knives, or "midnight-noon mandarin
duck axes." Those are the strange curved double-bladed things that the
investigator used in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)

zhen-ma-dao.ccs.neu.edu ("horse hacking sword")

dang.ccs.neu.edu (yes, Kung Fu has wepon forms for fighting with a
wooden bench).

Russell


Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:19:49PM -0700, Rajan Rishyakaran wrote:
> > Well, when Berlin was first concieve, I'm gathering
> > that names like Prague, Warsaw sounded funny cause all
> > the stuff that have been named by cities out there
> > back then were western cities. But now Berlin becomes
> > Fresco, how about changing the names to something that
> > reflects what it does. Like Warsaw comes Toilet-Bowl,
> > Moscow becomes Invissible (I'm kidding about my
> > suggestions). What do you guys think?
> 
> Funny, we just did that :-)
> 
> The new names:
>   The project:   was Berlin, now Fresco
>   The interface: was Warsaw, now Fresco
>   The server:    was Berlin, still Berlin
> (the way to understand this is that "Fresco" is to "Berlin" as "X" is
> to "XFree86".  Most of the time, when you have the urge to say
> "Berlin", you should be saying "Fresco" instead -- we just keep the
> name "Berlin" around in case someone else invents a new
> implementation, eventually.)
> 
> Prague and Babylon keep their names; Prague is a mostly separate
> project anyway, and could maybe do with a rename, but *shrug*.
> Babylon isn't actually that bad a name, though I apologize for
> suggesting the terrible pun to Tobias.
> 
> Moscow is, perhaps, a special case -- it doesn't actually exist, but
> we need some word to refer to "all that higher-level stuff we're not
> ready to tackle yet", so we call it Moscow.  Perhaps a different name
> will be chosen when code is actually written.
> 
> -- Nathaniel
> 
> -- 
> "Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain,
> Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain:
> Awake but one, and lo! what myriads rise!
> Each stamps its image as the other flies"
>   -- Ann Ward Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
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