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 ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
