monkeys on typewriters

If you haven’t noticed the theme on this blog is fairly plain. In reality it’s a very modified WordPress Classic theme, and I mean very modified. I went in thinking “I want to make the theme as plain as I possibly can.” I think I achieved that goal. Despite being plain, the blog has clearly defined whitespace margins, and is easy to read.

If you want a copy of the theme (which I kinda doubt), I’d be happy to give you one. Just post in the comments. On second thought, I have no idea how to do that. That would be helpful to know too.

Here ends yet another unnecessary post.

OR: Things You Didn’t Know About Those Other Guys (and me).

Here are some things you probably didn’t know about the guys here at Taco Widgets:

• Mason has a pocket protector. Made of duct tape.
• Austin plays (at the moment) Saxophone, and Bass Clarinet. Mason plays Cello. In all fairness, I play piano (so does Austin).
• Austin and Coale really like the Beatles. Really. Me too, but not quite to this extent.
• Mason has a red afro. (No, I’m not making that up.)
• Austin watered his keyboard.
• Coale, probably the least geeky of us, has the best computer.
• Austin has been asked at least 4 times by various employees at the Apple Store why he doesn’t work there.
• Mason has a girl’s bike that’s 25 years old.
• Austin bought a DS Lite because he thought it looked cool.
• We’ve been known to sit in someone’s basement and watch Montey Python and Beatles Movies on a big screen TV.
• We’ve also been known to sit in someone’s basement and watch Apple keynotes on a big screen TV.
• Austin owns a David Hasselhoff Action Figure.
• I watch M*A*S*H and Studio 60 (a somewhat odd combo).
• Austin has easily spent over $200 in Starbucks Coffee.
• I have well over 50 RSS feeds in my NetNewsWire.
• We all have horrible handwriting.
• Some large decisions (like the creation of these blogs) we make spur of the moment, but some minor details (like the color of a certain part of an icon) can cause week long arguments.
• Mason can often be heard saying “You’re stupid! Slap!” right after he’s been proven wrong.

“Monkeys on Typewriters”? WTF?

Ever heard the expression “A million monkeys on a million typewriters will eventually pound out the works of Shakespeare”? Now, statistical calculations on how many millennia that would take aside, this blog’s title and subsequent subtitle are simply raising the point that these monkeys are bound to pound out something else before they get to Shakespeare. These are the kind of things that I think about.

The joke is that this blog was one of the things that came from that big room with millions of monkeys on typewriters.

And now, some keyboard pounding.

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I leave you with that, as my iBook’s keyboard is weeping.

Hi. My name is Galen. I’m the lead widget developer here at Taco Widgets. This is my blog. This is not the official Taco Widgets blog. If you’re looking for that head over to the Taco Widgets Blog. This is the place where I’ll talk about some insider development stuff, and the like. Yeah.

I suppose I should say something profound, but I can’t think of anything right now.