Re: [NTG-context] context mascot

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

luigi scarso wrote:

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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:

Hi,

>> Have we a mascot ? >> >> http://chl.be/mascots/ > > Yes we do. Its the dutch cow :-)

I thought that people in Bohinj more ore less agreed(*) that we don't want any animals as a logo (except for your elephant, of course ;-)). Wasn't this the reason, we tried hard to come up with a geometrically formed context logo?

It's not a logo. It's a mascot, like TeX lion, linux penguin, GNU gnu and so on . Cow fonts was made from Duane Bibby's illustrations ,as far I know, so no doubt that they are in TeX tradition

Sure, but that's just visual jokes; you're not advocating a real 'pluche' animal are you?

Well , actually I really appreciate a *real* dutch cow... martina needs milk every morning... BTW, no, I'm not advocate for a real "pluche" animal. (hm, reminds me of this inflatable pig that the pink floyd guys use(d), a

big inflatable cow floating above the context conference location)

Arrghh.. this pig (Animals album) created some problems to floyd.. ".... On 3 December 1976, during the second day, a gust of wind broke the pig free of its moorings. Because there was no one to shoot the pig down, it sailed away into the morning sky. A passenger plane reported seeing the pig, causing all the flights at London Heathrow Airporthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Heathrow_Airportto be delayed [*citation needed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed*]. A police helicopter was sent up to track the pig, but was forced to return after following the pig to an altitude of 5,000 feet. A warning was sent out to pilots that a giant, flying pink pig was loose in the area[*citation needed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed*]. The CAA lost radar contact on the pig near Chatham in Kent, at a height of 18,000 feet and flying East. It finally landed in a farmer's field, without much damage. ..:" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_(album) -- luigi