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Hey, at least it isn’t named after a very large number, an excited exclamation, or a sound effect. Surely no product with one of those names would ever succeed.


I probably should have named it cartoon-trombone.wav in retrospect.


It's a fine name! I had marginalia on the mind - I am reading The Name of the Rose.


That makes sense. I am perhaps overly sensitive to the drive by “name haters” who seem to show up in every FOSS or indie project thread.


I feel a bit bad it was interpreted that way.

Some fun context, I was trying to find a scanned copy of the first 'correct' book on optics (written by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham). Possibly the first person to really use the scientific method in circa 1000CE (!!). And I found this (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-PETERHOUSE-00209/103) filled with interesting optical diagrams like something out of my high school physics notebooks. Anyway - I was also thinking about how they might index interesting doodles in the margins. So it was on my mind.




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