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**Justin Garrison:** I guess it would be a thing, but it's Greek for helmsmen. |
**Autumn Nash:** Oh, I love that. I love when they mean services after -- oh, but that makes sense, because of the little wheel; that's so cute. |
**Justin Garrison:** Now you get the logo. There you go. |
**Autumn Nash:** That's adorable. |
**Justin Garrison:** So the interesting tidbit as well about Kubernetes and the wheel - the wheel has seven points on it, because the project name inside of Google was Seven of Nine, because they were a big Star Trek... Borg is their internal system... |
**Autumn Nash:** See, this is why you have to teach me about Star Trek and frickin' Star Wars, because I miss all this stuff. |
**Justin Garrison:** So that's a fun little tidbit of like why the wheel is the way it is. And it also -- it's like, it's really hard to find a wheel that has seven points, because they're ridiculous to me. |
**Autumn Nash:** Why do I feel like you've probably tried to find one of these as a prop somewhere? |
**Justin Garrison:** Maybe. Maybe not. |
**Autumn Nash:** \[laughs\] |
**Justin Garrison:** Let's go to something that you might be a little more familiar with... MySQL. Person, place, thing or null? |
**Autumn Nash:** Place. Or -- no. Thing? |
**Justin Garrison:** It's a person. The person's name is Michael Widenius, who created it. Or at least named it. So they actually named it "MySQL", like their name, sequel. And my is actually their first name. |
**Autumn Nash:** Interesting. I was thinking SQL would be something, not the "My". So that's cool. |
**Justin Garrison:** I know. And that was the first time -- I was just like "I had no idea" and "This is cool." And so that's where I started down this route. So here's what we were talking about before the show recording - Venn diagram. Person, place, thing or null? |
**Autumn Nash:** I still -- like, I really want you to make a Venn diagram of nerds, because I feel like that could be a whole show... But okay. I feel like it was named after a person. |
**Justin Garrison:** It was. John Venn. John Venn was the person that a Venn diagram was named after. |
**Autumn Nash:** Who was that?! |
**Justin Garrison:** \[01:12:07.29\] The person who created Venn diagrams. I didn't get all the links out of it. I just wrote down... |
**Autumn Nash:** Okay, but also, do you just wonder how he was sitting there, thinking about Venn diagrams one day? |
**Justin Garrison:** Yeah, I wonder what train of thought led him down that path. How about a Trojan horse? |
**Autumn Nash:** Isn't Trojan named after the city that did it? |
**Justin Garrison:** Exactly. It's a place, Yes. It's a named after Troy, where it happened. So a Trojan horse as a virus or something in your system is named after Troy, as the city. How about Bluetooth? |
**Autumn Nash:** Thing, maybe? |
**Justin Garrison:** It's a person. |
**Autumn Nash:** Really? |
**Justin Garrison:** Harold Bluetooth was a king of Denmark. |
**Autumn Nash:** Okay, there are some people with some very interesting names. |
**Justin Garrison:** Yes, it turns out names are very interesting. What about Neon? |
**Autumn Nash:** Let's just say a person, because I don't think it's person. |
**Justin Garrison:** It was from the Greek word for new. |
**Autumn Nash:** We are a bunch of nerds in tech, huh? I love Greek mythology, and Greeks, all of that. So every time there's a random service named after it, it makes me so excited. |
**Justin Garrison:** I'm gonna do a couple more. These are fun. And I have such a big list right now... Okay, this one surprised me. Person, place, thing or null. Algorithms. |
**Autumn Nash:** Person. |
**Justin Garrison:** Yes. al-Khwarizmi. I'm sorry, the name is -- I cannot. I'm just too white. But he was a Persian mathematician. |
**Autumn Nash:** You are ridiculous! \[laugh\] |
**Justin Garrison:** I'm trying. I literally was reading it, over and over again, in my head. I'm like "I'm gonna pronounce it right." |
**Autumn Nash:** I can't read things in my head until it's time for me to actually say it out loud, and then I'm like "Oh, my..." |
**Justin Garrison:** Yeah. He was a Persian mathematician. Algebra was also named for him. But algorithms - he had a couple of big books about math, from a long, long time ago. So algorithms are named after him. |
**Autumn Nash:** That's interesting, because I always wondered if Algo was like -- you know how they have biology, and then ology, and then like "the science of"...? I always wondered if there was an abbreviation -- not an abbreviation, but what would you call it? Sort of like algo meant something like, scientific, or ... |
**Justin Garrison:** Oh, yeah. Alright, let's do two more. Hadoop. Person, place, thing or null? Hadoop. |
**Autumn Nash:** Person? |
**Justin Garrison:** A thing. It was named after the inventors -- one of his kids had a toy elephant, that was named Hadoop. That was his name, and so he named this -- |
**Autumn Nash:** That's adorable. |
**Justin Garrison:** ...thing after his kid's elephant toy. |
**Autumn Nash:** Oh, that's cute. |
**Justin Garrison:** Okay, last one. Debian. Debian, the Linux distro. |
**Autumn Nash:** Thing. |
**Justin Garrison:** Person. But actually, two people. People named Deb and Ian. |
**Autumn Nash:** Oh, that's cool! |
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