To Redshirt or not to Redshirt?

So I've been thinking about our company name the last couple days.  There has been an upsurge in violence in Thailand where some protestors called the Redshirts have been causing a bit of a ruckas.  The reason for the blog post is just to clear up the lineage of our name.  I doubt anyone that knows us personally or who'd read this blog (since they are probably a fully overlapping ven diagram) would suspect that we knew about the other usages of Redshirt before we were formed.  Although some people have politely (playfully) pointed out the overlapping name recently.

The connotation for us is directly linked to our general nerdiness.  As nerds who play too much WoW and get way too excited about the next Apple product or will argue for hours about the merits of Java vs C++ or how much the use of square brackets sucks in Objective C; we obviously associated the Redshirt in our name to a small television program that started back in the 60s and attempted to take us on journey "where no man has gone before."

With that in mind we've been a bit distressed as we found out that our name, which we thought was somewhat fun and playful, is actually associated with violence, protest, even a white paramilitary group from the southern US.

So lets recap a bit shall we?  Please, please, please think of us and our name with the following video in mind:



But do not think that we have anything to do with the much more serious stuff going on in this video.  This is NOT at all something we are trying to associate with.  (Regardless of the validity or not of the protestors problems with their government of Thailand.  We just simply don't know anything about the issues at hand and what to stay out of it.)



So remember we're fun. Not serious.  Just like our game we made for the iPhone and iPod Touch:  Zengaku is fun and nerdy.   Not serious and deadly.  Ok.  I feel better now that I got that off my chest.