Tofu is food, TOFU is software, what more do you need to know?
Jan07 Filed in: Science
To quote and twist Shakespeare, sometimes a name is a name by any other name. There is a neat software program called TOFU There is also tofu the delicious/horrible food product for vegans. The food came before the program, but why name a re-formatting application after a foodstuff?
We didn't want to trouble the TOFU developer, Amar Sagoo, for an answer during the Christmas celebrations, so here goes one scenario.
Mr Sagoo, the developer of TOFU the program, must have read that article several years later and been touched by the weight of its words. Just as he was about to name his software product "Columnizer" he had a change of heart and went for TOFU. It is the only logical explanation.
He learnt that most 50lb underweight vegans are committed to stopping logging in the Amazon basin. They don't want the lungs of the world turned into a beefburger ranch so the delusional carnivores rely on a sustainable meat substitute. Tofu, a derivative of soy, is their savior!
Looking into what soy curd actually looks and tastes like, Mr Sagoo realised that the easy bit is getting hold of tofu. The hard part is finding ways to prepare the hideous foodstuff so that it is edible and easily digestible. He saw a hook between the two tofu terms.
He reasoned that conscientious vegan souls would always need a reliable and easily digestible source of Tofu recipes 101. They would certainly never consider reading a book, as that would be tantamount to felling a thousand year old oak for fun. The developer's fingers started twitching at the next most logical source of information - the internet.
He positively somersaulted in his leather pants when he discovered that tofu burger recipes abound on specialist tofu websites. And fortunately (for him) he saw an instant need for his columniser program. Most websites are a design meltdown with info overload and no clarity. The vegan webmasters were no exception with their Comic Sans fonts and leafy backgrounds, flashing GIFs and spinning Internet Explorer logos.
Amar Sagoo experienced a cataclysmic realisation that all along he had been guided subliminally to develop a program to take ill-formatted tofu-related text and place it in newspaper style columns. He was the savior of speed-reading vegan chefs the world over, and crowned himself the developer of a super elegant solution that, unlike the UN, had the ability to educate minds and fill stomachs in bite-size chunks for FREE forever.
And if his software is good enough for vegans, it is good enough for the rest of us too. God bless Mr Sagoo, and god bless tofu.
We didn't want to trouble the TOFU developer, Amar Sagoo, for an answer during the Christmas celebrations, so here goes one scenario.
Back in 2000
In the hip days when blogs were barely a blip on the heartbeat of IT, a Google worker at Shellen.com wrote a long old post about the tofu we all sort of know about: real tofu. It is a vegan product, a meat substitute for weirdy beardies who chant I save the earth (while smoking their roll-up cigarettes.) Lovely tofu is made from soy curd. Mmmmm yummy.Mr Sagoo, the developer of TOFU the program, must have read that article several years later and been touched by the weight of its words. Just as he was about to name his software product "Columnizer" he had a change of heart and went for TOFU. It is the only logical explanation.
A brief history of TOFU
The TOFU developer, inspired by a product that has kept vegans alive for decades, did some research just to see how he could make the name fit the software.He learnt that most 50lb underweight vegans are committed to stopping logging in the Amazon basin. They don't want the lungs of the world turned into a beefburger ranch so the delusional carnivores rely on a sustainable meat substitute. Tofu, a derivative of soy, is their savior!
Looking into what soy curd actually looks and tastes like, Mr Sagoo realised that the easy bit is getting hold of tofu. The hard part is finding ways to prepare the hideous foodstuff so that it is edible and easily digestible. He saw a hook between the two tofu terms.
Knowledge is power
He reasoned that conscientious vegan souls would always need a reliable and easily digestible source of Tofu recipes 101. They would certainly never consider reading a book, as that would be tantamount to felling a thousand year old oak for fun. The developer's fingers started twitching at the next most logical source of information - the internet.
He positively somersaulted in his leather pants when he discovered that tofu burger recipes abound on specialist tofu websites. And fortunately (for him) he saw an instant need for his columniser program. Most websites are a design meltdown with info overload and no clarity. The vegan webmasters were no exception with their Comic Sans fonts and leafy backgrounds, flashing GIFs and spinning Internet Explorer logos.
Amar Sagoo experienced a cataclysmic realisation that all along he had been guided subliminally to develop a program to take ill-formatted tofu-related text and place it in newspaper style columns. He was the savior of speed-reading vegan chefs the world over, and crowned himself the developer of a super elegant solution that, unlike the UN, had the ability to educate minds and fill stomachs in bite-size chunks for FREE forever.
And if his software is good enough for vegans, it is good enough for the rest of us too. God bless Mr Sagoo, and god bless tofu.
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