Hey so I totally messed this up because I thought it was a good geeky meme but I failed you all. In the past people mixed up Jonathan Lange with Jono Bacon. This is because they both went by “jono”. How we dealt with this as a project was that Jono Bacon was just “jono”, and then Jono Lange was “evil jono”. But then Jono Lange lost all this weight and became unrecognizable. And he wasn’t really evil, he’s actually pretty great. And Bacon listened to metal, so you could make the argument that he was the evil one. So we tried other iterations like “metal jono” vs. “new zealand jono who really lives in London but whatever”. None of those really stuck.

Since we know Lange is a huge Game of Thrones fan, I started calling him “The Greatjon” at the last sprint. People thought this was cute at the sprint, but unfortunately I forgot to tell people outside of the room, my fault for not being transparent. Here’s the real character, and while I feel Evil Jono really doesn’t fit the personality of this character I think it would be awesome to have a random title like this for someone in the project, it would certainly make meetings more interesting, especially when you do IRC meetings in the context of the books.

Think about it, what if meetings went from this:

Hey Jono, when do you think this feature will land in the Software Center?

to this:

Hey Jono, whom they call the Greatjon, when do you think this feature will land in the Software Center?

I know right, I suspect the Langaseks are going to have fun with this. I realize that we could just refer to them by normal social factors like last name or whatever, but what’s the fun in that? Also, this will be awesome, I was just looking for an excuse to talk about Season 2.