Tux Image
Brian Kelsay
bkelsay at askpioneer.com
Wed Jan 3 20:58:09 CST 2001
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 at juno.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 12:49 PM
> To: kclug at 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.
>
>
>
>
>
> </PETULANT_ARTIST_TANTRUM>
>
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