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Trivia modified by Solly Ezekiel

Solly Ezekiel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:32:45 -0000

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 Several reasons, really.  Most importantly, I needed an application to manage all my duplicate pictures :-).  But there were other reasons:

-  * It's a chance for me to do the best job I can on a piece of software.  I write software for a living, and most of the time, I get to work on a piece of software only until it just meets the requirements, and then it's time to move on.  Of course I understand that this is necessary, yet it always leaves me wishing I could have done just a little more.  So on this project, I get to polish all I want and take as much pride in the finished product as I like.  So there!
+  * It's a chance for me to do the best job I can on a piece of software.  I write software for a living, and most of the time, I get to work on a piece of software only until it just meets the requirements, and then it's time to move on.  Of course I understand that this is necessary, yet it always leaves me wishing I could have done just a little more.  So on this project, I get to polish all I want and take as much pride in the finished product as I like.
   * It has given me an opportunity to learn a bunch of new tools I wouldn't use at work, such as [JSPF](https://code.google.com/p/jspf/), [JIMFS](https://github.com/google/jimfs), [Mockito](https://code.google.com/p/mockito/), [FileDrop](http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/java/filedrop/), [Java internationalization](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/), and so forth.
   * It's a way of giving back to the open-source community, which has helped me a great deal with all sorts of useful software.

Trivia modified by Solly Ezekiel

Solly Ezekiel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:17:54 -0000

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 ## So who is she?

-The woman in the Sui Generis logo is Venus from Sandro Botticelli's unforgettable painting [The Birth of Venus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus_%28Botticelli%29).  *Sui Generis* translates, more or less, into "one of a kind," and so for the logo I wanted something that symbolized that.  And what better to symbolize uniqueness than a famous piece of art?  I could have chosen any famous painting, sculpture, or whatnot, but *The Birth of Venus* has a special meaning for me.  Many years ago I was traveling through Florence and visited the Uffizi Museum, where the painting is displayed.  When I saw the painting with my own eyes I was dumbstruck -- the gold of her hair, the vibrant blue of the ocean, and the general aspect of seeing the painting for myself was breathtaking.  I have never seen a reproduction that remotely captures the beauty of the original.  They all seem so bland by comparison.  The original is stunning.  For the next ten or twenty minutes I just sat in that gallery, watching the reactions of visitors as they saw the painting for the first time.  They all reacted as I had done -- all conversation ceased and they just stood there, mute, as they took in the beauty before them.  I'll never forget it.
+The woman in the Sui Generis logo is Venus from Sandro Botticelli's unforgettable painting [The Birth of Venus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus_%28Botticelli%29).  *Sui Generis* translates, more or less, into "one of a kind," and so for the logo I wanted something that symbolized that.  And what better to symbolize uniqueness than a famous piece of art?  I could have chosen any famous painting, sculpture, or whatnot, but *The Birth of Venus* has a special meaning for me.  Many years ago I was traveling through Florence and visited the Uffizi Museum, where the painting is displayed.  When I saw the painting with my own eyes I was dumbstruck -- the gold of her hair, the vibrant blue of the ocean, and the general aspect of seeing the painting for myself was breathtaking.  I have never seen a reproduction that remotely captures the beauty of the original.  They all seem so bland by comparison.  The original is stunning.  For the next ten or twenty minutes I just sat in that gallery, watching the reactions of visitors as they saw the painting for the first time.  They all reacted as I had done -- all conversation ceased and they just stood there, mute, as they took in the beauty before them.  It was amazing to watch.

Trivia modified by Solly Ezekiel

Solly Ezekiel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:16:58 -0000

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+# Trivia
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+## Why?
+
+Several reasons, really.  Most importantly, I needed an application to manage all my duplicate pictures :-).  But there were other reasons:
+
+  * It's a chance for me to do the best job I can on a piece of software.  I write software for a living, and most of the time, I get to work on a piece of software only until it just meets the requirements, and then it's time to move on.  Of course I understand that this is necessary, yet it always leaves me wishing I could have done just a little more.  So on this project, I get to polish all I want and take as much pride in the finished product as I like.  So there!
+  * It has given me an opportunity to learn a bunch of new tools I wouldn't use at work, such as [JSPF](https://code.google.com/p/jspf/), [JIMFS](https://github.com/google/jimfs), [Mockito](https://code.google.com/p/mockito/), [FileDrop](http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/java/filedrop/), [Java internationalization](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/), and so forth.
+  * It's a way of giving back to the open-source community, which has helped me a great deal with all sorts of useful software.
+
+## So who is she?
+
+The woman in the Sui Generis logo is Venus from Sandro Botticelli's unforgettable painting [The Birth of Venus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus_%28Botticelli%29).  *Sui Generis* translates, more or less, into "one of a kind," and so for the logo I wanted something that symbolized that.  And what better to symbolize uniqueness than a famous piece of art?  I could have chosen any famous painting, sculpture, or whatnot, but *The Birth of Venus* has a special meaning for me.  Many years ago I was traveling through Florence and visited the Uffizi Museum, where the painting is displayed.  When I saw the painting with my own eyes I was dumbstruck -- the gold of her hair, the vibrant blue of the ocean, and the general aspect of seeing the painting for myself was breathtaking.  I have never seen a reproduction that remotely captures the beauty of the original.  They all seem so bland by comparison.  The original is stunning.  For the next ten or twenty minutes I just sat in that gallery, watching the reactions of visitors as they saw the painting for the first time.  They all reacted as I had done -- all conversation ceased and they just stood there, mute, as they took in the beauty before them.  I'll never forget it.

Trivia modified by Solly Ezekiel

Solly Ezekiel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:15:15 -0000