Tuesday, September 3, 2013

KitKat

So the new version of Android is going to be called KitKat! Just scrolling through this page will make your sweet tooth start to tingle:
http://www.android.com/kitkat/index.html

On the home page of Android.com, they also state, "Look for specially branded KitKat bars in a store near you that give you a chance to win a Nexus 7 or Google Play credit."

Here's an interesting quote from Googler John Lagerling, via the BBC:
"We realised that very few people actually know the taste of a key lime pie," he explained.
"One of the snacks that we keep in our kitchen for late-night coding are KitKats. And someone said: 'Hey, why don't we call the release KitKat?'
"We didn't even know which company controlled the name, and we thought that [the choice] would be difficult. But then we thought well why not, and we decided to reach out to the Nestle folks."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23926938

Now I think it's quite a shame that so few people have tried Key Lime Pie, because it's delicious! But that being said, it is fun to see Google trying something new with the co-branding of this product, and basically getting some free publicity via KitKat bar packaging.

I'm planning to try eating Paleo for a month, so I don't think I'll be rushing out to buy any KitKat bars today, but maybe in October I'll get on that. In the mean time I do have a jar of honey from my brother's bees, and he thought it looked cool to save some of the comb and seal it in the jar. So I'll have something else to gnaw on for a while.

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