The Conversation: Polynesian Programmers

Me and Jack and Steve in a meeting…

Me: “What’s ‘wiki’ mean?”

Jack: “I think it comes from the Hawaiian word for ‘quick’ or something.”

Me: “Wiki is a fun word.”

Steve: “You know, my name in Hawaiian is ‘kiwi’.”

Me: “Kiwi?”

Steve: “Yeah, that’s how you say my name in Hawaiian.”

Me: “It’s also how you say fruit.”

Steve: “Kiwi Wiki.”

Jack: “Quick fruit.”

Steve: “A gay runner from New Zealand.”

Jack: “Kiwi Lewis.”

Steve: “And the News.”

Jack: “Didn’t he just die?”

Me: “Huey Lewis?”

Jack: “Yeah.”

Me and Steve: “No.”

Jack: “Who just died? Somebody did. Someone from the eighties just died.”

Steve: “Hasselhoff?”

(Which is not a bad tangent for a meeting which started with Jack saying: “No matter what you’re doing, it does the right thing and lets you do the thing you think you’re supposed to be doing.”)