On the subject of naming the Dapper successor

[Eric Dunbar]

On 2/15/06, Shawn McMahon <smcmahon at eiv.com> wrote:
> If you're pitching to a suit and they say "isn't that really named
> Lactating Llama or something?" you can always say "that's the desktop
> version; for servers it's named n.04".  It's completely true; the
> desktop version is named Psychotic Ptarmigan or whatever, and the
> server version is named n.04.  It just so happens that the reverse is
> also true, but that's not going to come up; the guy made his point,
> you answered it politely, he demonstrated his uber-leetness to the
> scary intellectually-intimidating geek, all is good.
>
>
> P.S. Xenophobic Xanthus.  It's a kind of hummingbird, so I'm sort of
> cheating, but YOU try finding an animal that starts with X.

The xenops, another birdy:

<http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/printouts/Xenopsprintout.shtml>