I was making some ProM-plugins for demonstration purposes (you should totally attend my talk on logging at the ProM developers’ meeting next Monday). I needed names. I needed a lot, and I needed them to be easily displayable. Instead of going with the sensible choice and naming them after Britney songs or variations of Britney’s name, I went with words.
The good thing about words is that there are quite a few of them, also you can make your names appear early in the list of plug-ins. I therefore present you my plug-ins:
I’m totally claiming these names, and shall in the future release a process mining algorithm named the Aardvark Algorithm and another named the Aardwolf Algorithm.
And I totally see Aasvogel as a mixture of English and German and hence as an ass-bird.
To make this seemingly useless post pretend to be less useless, here are the meanings of the words:
- Aalii: A tree from Hawaii.
- Aardvark: An animal that looks like the result of cross-breeding a pig and a rabbit.
- Aardwolf: A striped hyena from Africa.
- Aasvogel: A vulture. Hey, ass-bird wasn’t completely off!
- Aba: A dress made of camel hair and worn by arabs.
- Abaca: A plant that can be used to make mats that look like a turd.
- Abaci: A doohickey in columns.
- Aback: Not at the front.
- Abacus: Poor man’s calculator on the iPhone.
