@luka @madskjeldgaard In UK English, "git" (hard G) is a pejorative term to describe someone. At the time Linus Torvalds said "I name all my projects after myself".

So other than the fact "git" was a pronounceable three letter word that wasn't in use by other Unix commands, we can only guess this was a bit of self-deprecation from Linus.

@RussSharek Decimalisation makes me sad !

Having everything base 10 is a utilitarian dystopia to my mathematical brain.

The 24 hours and 60 minutes is to me a great reminder of how we are descendants of history, building on work and discoveries done by ancient civilisations.

Whenever I think of 60 minutes, I think of the Babylonian people's mathematics.

And 24 hours reminds me of ancient Egypt. At the time, hours did not have a fixed length. Now that's what I long for !

@welshpixie I hope you charge more for Mandalas that have been blessed by feline deities.