Re: [Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-30 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
Oh, I do think Hardy's was the best wallpaper I've ever seen on Ubuntu. But I still don't think this looks like a skull, except in that "once someone tells you exactly what to look for, it's kind-of-there-ish" way. -- Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

[Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-30 Thread rapha
Could be, alright. Could also be taken as a sign that maybe the wallpaper is a bit too abstract/unclear afterall. The /. comment even speaks of blood... I don't understand what was wrong with the style that Hardy Heron's wallpaper was done in. That much clearlier showed a heron than this one shows

Re: [Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-30 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 19:21 +, rapha wrote: > http://osnews.com/thread?335671 Well wouldn't that joke go along with Melissa or Sarah (forget which) 's assertion that it's a coffee stain? -- Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289343 You received

[Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-30 Thread rapha
http://osnews.com/thread?335671 -- Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289343 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https:

[Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-30 Thread rapha
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1012917&cid=25570813 -- Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289343 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubunt

Re: [Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-26 Thread Sarah Hobbs
rapha wrote: > Sarah, please read my original post again. I have absolutely no problems > with English code names for the releases. The problem is that if you > don't know what an ibex is, you can mistake the current Ubuntu 8.10 > wallpaper for a skull, which then might have a number of further > i

[Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-26 Thread rapha
Sarah, please read my original post again. I have absolutely no problems with English code names for the releases. The problem is that if you don't know what an ibex is, you can mistake the current Ubuntu 8.10 wallpaper for a skull, which then might have a number of further implications. -- Curre

Re: [Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-26 Thread Sarah Hobbs
rapha wrote: > Thanks for the lovely photography of that Ibex, Mackenzie. Of course > they're all animals, and of course you look them up in a dictionary - > *eventually*! You can't be serious in expecting any Ubuntu user around > the world to look up the next releases' animal "first thing in the >

[Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-26 Thread rapha
** Attachment added: "What do you see in this image?" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18916794/image.jpg -- Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289343 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-26 Thread rapha
Thanks for the lovely photography of that Ibex, Mackenzie. Of course they're all animals, and of course you look them up in a dictionary - *eventually*! You can't be serious in expecting any Ubuntu user around the world to look up the next releases' animal "first thing in the morning" upon the rele

[Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-25 Thread Melissa Draper
It looks like a coffee stain to me. Forget the skull, I'd like to protest against the obvious wanton spillage of this important caffeinated beverage. Spilled coffee makes me cry. -- Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289343 You received this bug no

[Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-25 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
For what it's worth, drake (a type of duck), eft (a newt, like a lizard), and gibbon (a kind of monkey or ape) aren't ones your average English-speaker knows either. I think most of us end up consulting a dictionary when the next animal is announced. They're always animals, though. This is an ib

[Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-25 Thread rapha
Maybe a little explanation on how to see the skull might help. Mackenzie, Mike: below where you saw the antlers (?) of the ibex first is a brighter area. This is where I saw the empty part of the skull (where the brain would be). Where you see the eye of the ibex, I see the eyehole of the skull as

[Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-25 Thread rapha
Aha! So an Ibex is an animal. Now that I _know_ that, my brain can also _see_ an Ibex in that background picture. But words like "Ibex" are not necessarily the ones tought to English students outside English-speaking countries. That's the thing with how we perceive abstract pictures (which I think

[Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-25 Thread Mike Rooney
No matter how hard I look I can't really see a skull; it seems obviously an Ibex to me. -- Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289343 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubun

[Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-25 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
Could you please explain where you got a human skull out of a goat's body with horns and ears protruding from its head? ** Changed in: ubuntu-wallpapers (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289343 You rece

[Bug 289343] Re: Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful

2008-10-25 Thread rapha
** Attachment added: "Stovokor?" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18897390/stovokor_questionmark.png -- Current Intrepid Ibex Wallpaper Considered Harmful https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289343 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu