While Monty's rant on the feet was a little "out-there", I have to agree
with his thoughts on scalability in the KCLUG Tux image WRT the branding
iron.  It looks a little thin in the KC.  It would be great to scale it down
for a small logo for the PC case.

Thanks Monty for that rather lucid rant on the symbology of Tux the penguin.
I guess I hadn't thought of him in this way before.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monty J. Harder [mailto:dmonster@juno.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 12:49 PM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Tux Image
> 
> > Other than that, I think it is done.  Take a look at
> > http://members.home.com/gdascher/images/tux_3.jpg and let me know 
> > what y'all
> > think. 
> 
>   I could probably learn to live with the flat feet, even though that
> breaks congruity with the fuzzy stuffed Tuxen. See 
> http://ware.cx/tuxman
> for plump feet.  But the biggest problem is the branding iron.
> 
> 
>  Scale the tux_3.jpg image to a smaller size, say 25%, and 
> you can't make
> out the branding iron at all.  For the image to work as a 
> logo, it must
> scale well to very small sizes.  Print out one about 3/4" 
> tall, to fit on
> a case badge square.  It is important that the branding iron 
> be as easy
> to make out as the hat, lest folks think this is a TexTux image or
> something.
> 
>   Yes, I know that the branding iron will look "too large" if 
> it's easy
> to read the KC in a small image.  It's OK.  This is a 
> feature, not a bug.
>  The iron should be the size that a human cowboy might use, and it
> =should= look ridiculously large in Tux's tiny ha^H^Hflipper.
> 
>   I know I've said similar before, but I have to repeat it.  
> Part of the
> appeal of Tux in general is the manifest fact that it just 
> isn't possible
> for him to do ______.  And yet, with a smile, he just waddles on,
> oblivious to the obvious (at least "obvious" to the 
> ordinary), and does
> the seemingly impossible.  After all, Tux symbolizes the 
> ragtag flock [*]
> of hackers doing a job thought to be the exclusive province of the
> mega-corporation.  The branding iron =should= look like it weighs more
> than he does, so he ought to topple over and fall on his face.  The
> incredible weight of the task of the OS he represents, by the
> conventional wisdom, should make =that= impossible.
> 
> [*]  I might even take a shot at a branding iron so large 
> that it takes
> =two= Tuxen to handle it!
> 
> 
>   Waddle.  Waddle.  Waddle.
> 
>           Head 'em out.
> 
>   Waddle.  Waddle.  Waddle.
> 
>           Move 'em up.
> 
>   Waddle.  Waddle.  Waddle.
> 
>           Rawhide.
> 
>   Waddle.  Waddle.  Waddle.
> 
>           Hi, may I help you?
> 
>   Waddle.  Waddle.  Waddle.
> 
>           Barbecue.  Yum.  
> 
>   Waddle.  Waddle.  Waddle.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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