Tux Image

[Monty J. Harder]

> 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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