“O Uommibatto”: How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat

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We named our company after Wombats (https://www.wombatsecurity.com/). We always got fun responses from customers in Australia, most of them loving it.

Company was also acquired a few months ago, and I'm using some of the proceeds to put together a man cave, which I've informally called the "Wombat Cave" :)

At work we have a collection of (plush) Wombats of all sizes, and we have one major product named after them. They are really cute, and sometimes featured on the blog: https://www.wombatdialer.com/blog/

Also DEC database (Datatrieve) engineers:

https://www.ibphoenix.com/resources/documents/history/doc_29...

"Epergne: Who knows? ...clearly someplace wombats sleep."

These animals are also famous for their cube-shaped poop!

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/wombat-po...

A previous job had a monitoring system called Watcher Of Many Batches And Transactions. The British Army had a Weapon Of Magnesium, Battalion, Anti Tank once too. Wombats fascinate everyone!

I love that second one. First there was the BAT (Battalion, Anti-Tank), a recoilless rifle that had to be towed by a Jeep or equivalent. Then they came up with a light-weight, man-portable version that used magnesium alloys, so of course it had to be "Weapon Of Magnesium, Battalion Anti-Tank".

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