YUI Raptors Will Eat Your Face

To my surprise, it turns out I have some influence over which animal will appear on the cover of the book. So I threw the question out on the internal YUI team IRC channel. As expected, the results were unsatisfactory.

To protect the guilty, all IRC nicks have been further anonymized.

[3:12pm] evangoer: Okay, important business.
[3:12pm] evangoer: My editor tells me that while I cannot choose the O’Reilly animal for the cover,
[3:12pm] evangoer: I can send her a list of suggestions.
[3:12pm] evangoer: So: floor is open
[3:12pm] MrPink: NARWHAL
[3:12pm] evangoer: ooh good start
[3:12pm] MrPink: Failing that, Moby Dick.
[3:12pm] MrPink: Or, really, any albino sperm whale.
[3:13pm] MrBrown: t. rex
[3:13pm] MrWhite: camel spider?
[3:13pm] evangoer: I was going to say velociraptor, but T Rex > Velociraptor
[3:13pm] evangoer: way too scary, Mr. White
[3:13pm] MrPink: If there’s a camel spider on the book, it will never enter my house.
[3:13pm] MrWhite: Has someone taken the angler fish?
[3:13pm] evangoer: yup bad marketing
[3:14pm] MrBrown: ditto
[3:14pm] evangoer: female or male angler fish?
[3:14pm] MrWhite: haha
[3:14pm] MrOrange: Velociraptors are scarier than T. Rex, IMHO.
[3:14pm] MrBlonde: Yeti Crab
[3:14pm] MrBrown: If they want a list, we should put both
[3:14pm] evangoer: yes but T. Rex kicked their butts in Jurassic park 1
[3:14pm] MrWhite: velociraptors are a fad (like the internet). T Rex has stood the test of time.
[3:15pm] MrOrange: True. But T. Rex couldn’t enter the computer room and kitchen.
[3:15pm] MrBrown: Mr. White: Good point.
[3:15pm] MrPink: YUI is clever. Like a raptor.
[3:15pm] MrPink: Also, learning YUI will help you open doors.
[3:15pm] MrOrange: Mr. Pink++
[3:15pm] evangoer: YUI will crunch through your problems like the jaws of a T. Rex.
[3:16pm] MrBlonde: Red Panda ‘(“shining cat,” from a Latinized form of the Greek, ailouros, “cat,” and the participial form of the Latin fulgere, “to shine”)’
[3:16pm] MrPink: Also, it’s modular. The modules work together to overcome problems, in much the same way that raptors work together to eat your face.
[3:16pm] MrWhite: Isn’t there a flying snake?
[3:16pm] MrPink: Mr. White: HOLY HELL WHERE KILL IT
[3:16pm] MrBrown: I think its a common misnomer that the T Rex is not as smart as the v-raptor. A consensus of paleontologists agree the T Rex is as smart as they come.
[3:16pm] MrPink: That said, as awesome as raptors are, narwhals are infinitely awesomer.
[3:17pm] MrWhite: 9 out of 10 paleontologists agree…
[3:17pm] MrBrown: Apparently, they are the most intelligent hunter evah
[3:17pm] evangoer: oooh the red panda is cute!
[3:17pm] MrPink: 1 out of 1 paleontologists I live with would agree with Mr. Brown’s stance on T-Rexes.
[3:17pm] evangoer: “its population is estimated at fewer than 10,000 mature individuals.” Well that’s YUI for sure.
[3:17pm] MrBlue: So, technically an animal: the YUI J-Pop star in illustration format on the cover?
[3:18pm] MrPink: 1 out of 1 paleontologists I live with would also like me to recommend the humble compsognathus, which she thinks is cute: http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compsognathus
[3:18pm] MrBrown: Mr. Blue: thread winner!!!
[3:18pm] MrPink: Mr. Blue: Ha.
[3:18pm] MrBlonde: We should get the “Distinct George” on the cover..
[3:21pm] evangoer: Alright, well fantastic work, gentlemen. Will send this out to O’Reilly post-haste.

Comments

I like the flying snake. Kinda mythological, and if I saw it I might hope that by reading the book I would learn more about flying snakes and where to find them. They sound sneaky yet versatile. Does YUI contain these qualities?

Posted by Patrick Becker on Nov. 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM [#]
YUI is definitely versatile. But I think as JS libraries go, it might actually be on the less sneaky side of the spectrum.

Posted by Evan on Nov. 23, 2011 at 10:45 AM [#]

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