Bazel Has a New Friend

We went to a gdgt live event last month in SF to get geeky and see/touch/learn about the latest hot gear. We got some t-shirts, and screen cleaners, and stickers, and mobile phone cases, but my favorite bit of swag is the stuffed monkey from T-mobile. We still haven’t figured out what his name is. Options include: Mo, Mozy, Merl, Merv, Mork…

Bazel has taken quite a liking to him. Sid, too, but Bazel likes to wear the monkey around his neck (the hands are velcro.) The only thing they’re not too fond of is the crazy loud yell it makes when you fling it across the room, so we try to keep that to a minimum.

Jeph saw a girl on MUNI w/ a very similar monkey only he had a black cape and mask. Of course once he told me I immediately wanted one like that so our monkey wouldn’t be lonely. As if by magic (love those words!) a few weekends later we were driving by a church in Ross that had just had a rummage sale. Nicely, they left a selection of good free stuff out on the lawn and guess what we found? The black-caped and masked monkey! So now we need to come up with two names. He reminds me of Zorro. Since Zorro is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, maybe we should name them Don and Diego…

Picasa’s not playing nice w/ Ubuntu (I recently jumped off the Windows ship and am, for the most part, sailing along quite pleasantly on ship Ubuntu – and I’ll write about it at some point) so will add a picture of the Zorro monkey later.