SmartCal^TM is hand-crafted by a family of elves who live under a mushroom deep in a secluded forest of Silicon Valley. They dream of moving to a non-fungal abode, so they bide their time lovingly carving zeros and ones into any spare bits of sand that are careless enough to be about.

No one knows where these elves find the precious drops of HTML and crystals of SQL they use to create the elaborate, jeweled web pages that they call SmartCal. A few say they've seen the crenelated towers in which the terabit servers lurk spewing forth millions of calendars through their OC-45s. Fewer have seen the secret source code that generations have wrought into the finely honed edifice we see today.

One thing is for certain, the elves are a rare breed, but silicon elves are downright esoteric, the secrecy and vitality of their code sworn to even before the sanctity of their mushroom home. The silicon elf much prefers the warm glow of a CRT to the cruel intensity of the sun. While silicon elves are extremely hard to catch, they can be lured into a trap with large quantities of stock options, or even just a bit of spare chocolate.

... or BEER ... BEER works very nicely ... make mine a large one ...

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