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.
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Same name coincidence, fair enough. I hope you understand the gravity of the situation in Bangkok (on 16 May 2010) and not take this point lightly.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I know, the international media has covered the event from a static one dimensional view point leading viewers to believe that the authority is shooting at unarmed protesters. The bigger picture has not been portrayed, ie. who talked the red shirts into this, who will gain what if the government falls apart, etc.
The entire story will, I am sure, justify the action of the army. No I do not condone violence or killing people. However, in self-defence of the country and its constitution, it is something we have to put up with.
Regards,
Chawin
Bangkok, Thailand
I think the point of the post is that we don't actually understand at all what is going on in Thailand at the moment. In fact we are quite ignorate to the arguments on either side of the issue. We'd just like to avoid any linkage if possible and let people know that we don't wish to associate ourselves with this issue at all.
ReplyDeleteAnything more than that would be pretty much irresponsible for me to comment on.
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