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Subject:Re: more silly names From:"D. Citron" <dcitron -at- GATE -dot- NET> Date:Fri, 19 Aug 1994 02:50:34 GMT
Karla Kitalong (kitalong -at- mtu -dot- edu) wrote:
: My crazy software name is the NAD, our in-house
: network administration daemon (or something like
: that--I can't remember the real name for it). The command
: to start the NAD? Yep, you guessed it--GONAD. Cute.
When my brother was in college, the microbiology department had an
informal basketball team that played other departments. They called
themselves the Nads, for obvious reasons!
"Live long and prosper -- without government interference!"
...Mr. Spock, before the NBC censors got to him, stardate 1966
David H. Citron .................................... dcitron -at- gate -dot- net
Tech Writer/Journalist/Copywriter -- Contract/Freelance/Telecommuting
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