At Sat, 3 Jan 2004 23:57:23 -0800,
Richard Miller wrote:
> 
> Like Danelle, I like the idea of a black t-shirt.  I'm no artist so I 
> can't do the sketching myself, but I'd like to see a t-shirt with the 
> Linux prodigy from the IBM commercial[1].  

You mean The Pretender commercial?

> We could have a mosaic of 
> all the famous people in the commercial (Muhammad Ali, etc.) on the 
> front and the line "The Future is Open" on the back with a little 
> picture of the white-haired kid.  (AH, or maybe a Brady Bunch-style 3x3 
> grid on the front with the kid in the middle and all the famous people 
> around him.  Hahaha.)

I guess maybe I don't think deeply enough, but I thought those adds
were a little bit weird.  What the heck does Muhammad Ali have to do
with Linux?  I mean, as a Linux geek I can see what sort of allusion
they are trying to make there, but does anyone else think that might
just be a bit confusing to the average Joe?

> I feel slightly alienated by the Penguin since I am a Mac OS X guy.  I 
> guess I feel better about the Linux prodigy because the theme is The 
> Future is Open.  Also, I'm not a CS major (may I please still stay on 
> the list?) 

Only if you are a CompE or EE :)

Bryan

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