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Subject:Re: Name From:MAGGIE SECARA <SECARAM -at- MAINSAVER -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:15:09 -0800
You're not the only one! In fact, I had to read the word twice to see
what it really was. Mind you, there are plenty of people to whom even
Caligula will sound "techy" but the implied perversity might also
encourage them to see it as buggy!
I know, I know, the perils of a semi-classical education...
Maggie Secara
~All the world's a stage--and some of us dreadfully under rehearsed.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sella Rush [SMTP:sellar -at- APPTECHSYS -dot- COM]
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 1998 3:49 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Name
>
> Sometimes you have to be aware of unexpected associations. Our chief
> scientist likes the name "Contigua" for our CCM product (contiguous
> connection model). But I've hated it from the moment I heard it
> because I
> immediately think Caligula, which is not a connection we want to be
> making.
> (But I'm willing to believe I'm alone in this twisted mind jump.)
>
> Sella Rush
>mailto:sellar -at- apptechsys -dot- com
> Applied Technical Systems (ATS)
> Bremerton, Washington
> Developers of the CCM Database
>
