Well, you know, in the summertime people has more free time, and can work on projects that in other moments will be impossible.
I am not an exception, and decided to spent my free time trying to unveil
the most protected secret of the MorphOS Team. And the reason why I report the news here, is that I was successful!
Most secrets were already unveiled by other intrepid explorers, but I discovered new details during my quest.
(1) The legendary X-Box of laire.
Do you know that now that the new model is PowerPC-based laire opens the case before playing, just to see directly with his eyes all the low-level messages within the processors and win all the games?
(2) The pizza affair of Bigfoot.
When thefab suggested an extraordinary
pizza to him, thefab did not imagine that Bigfoot would have started a quest to found where it was available. Well, he was able to found the place and eated all that pizza! Now he is still digesting, so do not expect any further programming by him in the next four weeks.
(3) The DVD multitasking by CISC.
CISC recently purchased a new DVD-reader that can read three discs at a time, so at last he is able to see three movies simultaneously. This is very good news, because from now on CISC will view all the hundreds of DVDs stored in his room in 1/3 of the time, and will ultimately find the time to finish his ARexx porting...
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But the most protected secret of the MorphOS Team is the meaning of tokai's name. Well, you know that a secret more secret than this secret is whether tokai became a member of the MorphOS Team or not. This fact is so hidden that the whole MorphOS Team is not yet aware of what they decided. I assumed as a work hypothesis that he is in the team, but my interest was concentrated mostly on the mystery of his name.
"Why tokai is called tokai?"
No, let me retry.
"Why tokai is called Christian Rosentreter?"
Argh! I drank too much beer today...
"Why Christian called himself Chr..., ehm, tokai?"
The obvious answer is: there is a famous wine from Hungary that is called tokai, and he chosed his nickname accordingly. But Christian is German, and he likes beer, not wine!
Well, I asked my friend Guruman, who is well-known for his eidetic memory. If he has heard or read something, he will remember it forever. I wrote soon: "Andrea, what does it mean tokai?" in an e-mail, but he replied: "???". This was very indicative for me: if Andrea does not know, it is very likely that none knows...
The next step was the Internet, I went to Google and searched for tokai. Argh! Too many possibilities. Has he
Japanese origins? Or is he the unknown master of an
industry that produces consumer electronics? Does he like music and create
guitars? An
Energy & Communication colossus in Japan? A
craft heart producer? A Japanese colleague of the
Tokai University, or a
rubber producer?
Is he an orphaned boy coming from Bangla Desh? The name of
street children is just "tokai", there.
Tokai is also a
software producer in Japan (maybe his secret real job?).
Or the German producer of
lighters? At least this seems to be closer than the other findings.
Certainly tokai's secret is hidden very well. Maybe the most likely solution is an optical industry (see
Tokai lenses): at least here there is a butterfly in the logo! But the butterfly colour is incorrect, so even this is not a good solution.
Well, at this point I gave up. (If you are still here and read this sentence, congratulations! You are much more patient than me). Anyway, at last it was extremely clear for me that the solution is so well hidden that it is not available by means of Google!
I forgot the subject for a few days, until I found the solution by chance! I was reading an article on "Le Scienze", the Italian version of "Scientific American". It was entitled "La forza del geco" (Geek's force), and concerned just gecko lizards. Among the other things I read: "
Gekko gecko is an indigenous species of the Asian South-East and the Indo-Australian archipelago..."; and later: "
Gekko gecko is the biggest and most studied species among more than a thousand species of geeks".
I'm sure you are thinking: "What the *** *** *** should I care of these *** lizards? You are wasting my time!". Right? Well, I had the final revelation a few lines below, and I am certain that you will have, too:
"The common name of
Gekko gecko is tokai geek".
Tokai geek!
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(The lines above mark an area which shows graphically my screaming silence).
Any further comment and explanation, now, seems absolutely useless...
[I would like to beg your pardon, laire, Bigfoot, CISC, tokai, guruman, and MorphZone readers, for this joke.]
Ah! I almost forgot a totally secondary byproduct of my quest for tokai. Searching for tokai's origin, I visited dark sites hidden in the web, penetrated subtly into obscure directories, and found, among the others, an archive containing the full distribution of MorphOS 1.5. Hurry up! Download the
file before they remove the link!
[ Edited by DoctorMorbius_FP on 2006/8/2 17:39 ]
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