Re: [trinity-users] TOTALLY off-topic - got a puzzle meets dinosaurs & dragons

Hmm, triceratops does seem awfully appropriate, with its three horns. Of course, we'd have to put up with jokes about being old fashioned dinosaurs, which might have a little truth to it :) On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:50 PM, William Morder &lt;doctor_contendo(a)zoho.com&gt; wrote: > T stands for? > > turtle, tortoise > turkey > tarantula > Tricerotops (sp?) it's got "trinity" in it > T Rex > > Just riffing on possibilities for animal mascots. > > Bill > > On Tuesday 12 June 2018 21:33:45 elcaseti wrote: > > This post got me thinking. since Konqui the dragon is the KDE > > community's > > > animal mascot, has anyone given thought to Trinity DE having an animal > > mascot? I nominate Corvus Corax (raven). I did get to eat alligator > > once, > > > but it was such a small piece, I didn't notice anything distinct about > > it. > > > It may very well taste like chicken, but I can't say for sure unless I > > get > > > a chance to eat a larger amount someday. Cheers > > > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 12:01 AM, William Morder < > > doctor_contendo(a)zoho.com&gt; > > > wrote: > > > On Sunday 10 June 2018 20:36:31 dep wrote: > > > > weird. as i was reading this just now, alton brown on "good eats" > > > > was speculating whether dinosaurs would have tasted like chicken. > > > > and > > no, i > > > > am > > > > > > > not making this up. the episode is entitled "a bird in the pan," > > > > and the discussion is about three minutes in. amazing coincidence. > > > > > > > > dep > > > > > > Now that is funny! I am just riffing off the top of my head. I didn't > > see > > > > the > > > show, and only vaguely know it. I watch a several cooking shows, but > > > that's > > > not one of them. > > > > > > Don't they say that the crocodilians (including alligators, caimans, > > > etc.) are > > > basically living fossils, that haven't changed much since the time of > > > dinosaurs, except to get smaller on the whole? There are people, I > > know, > > > > who > > > have eaten them, so maybe there is a clue. > > > > > > *SNIP* > > > > > > > > > > > > > This reminds me of a DOS game I bought (for I think $5 > > at a > > > > > > computer > > > show) back in the late 1980s. It had a small > > > > > install routine that > > > copied the program to the hard drive > > > > > and > > overwrote > > > > > > autoexec.bat with > > > the name of the executable file. In those > > > > > days autoexec.bat could > > > run to a couple of pages, with us > > > > > all trying > > > > > > to > > > > > > > > make our machines a > > > little faster and getting use of memory > > > > > above 640k, which was a > > > delicate thing. To say nothing of > > > > > the TSR programs many of us ran. > > > Setting comspec right > > > > > after we copied command.com to a RAM drive. > > > That kind of > > > > > thing. So autoexec.bat > > > > > > was > > > > > > > > a nontrivial thing, and > > > turning a well-tuned machine into a > > > > > single-game console was > > > troublesome. > > > > I swear, this > > > > > > mailing > > > > > > > > list is sort of like Jurassic Park: a place > > where dinosaurs > > still > > > > > > roam the earth. > > > > Bill > > They still roam the earth, Bill, > > > > > > except > > > > > > > > now we call them birds. :) I wonder if they tasted like chicken > > > > > or turkey, or more gamey like pheasant? Bill > > > > > > And here I was, ready to pounce on the first person who was itching > > for a > > > > fight, who would try to say that mythological dragons, for instance, > > were > > > > some kind of dim memory of dinosaurs, or creative attempts to explain > > > dinosaur fossils. > > > > > > Yes, in fact I do know that many dinosaurs (we now discover) had > > > feathers. Also, humans and dinosaurs were never* living at the same > > time. > > > > [* At least, "never", as far as current science know. But then we > > > also used to > > > say that Homo sapiens never interbred with other humans, such as > > > Neanderthals; and we now know that they did, and that all > > > non-Africans (Europeans and Asians, mostly) have some Neanderthal > > > genes; and that Neanderthals often had red hair.] > > > > > > Most attempts to explain mythological dragons by the backwards logic > > > of referring to dinosaurs are, we find, unconsciously influenced by > > > later literature - mostly science fiction and fantasy. Again, since > > > humans > > were > > > > never around at the same time as dinosaurs, they could have no memory > > of > > > > them > > > to feel the need to explain them away; and enormous dinosaur fossils, > > > when they were discovered, were usually thought to be the bones of > > > the Giants (that is, the Titans of Greek myth, the Vanir of Norse > > > myth, and so on). > > > > > > Mythological dragons are altogether different; but if I go there, we > > will > > > > need > > > to start not just a new thread, but a separate forum! > > > > > > It will be interesting, if we all survive long enough to witness such > > > events, > > > whether we can actually succeed in cloning and resurrecting extinct > > > species > > > from their recovered DNA. I don't know about dinosaurs as such; but I > > > think > > > it would be great to have woolly mammoths and some other species. And > > > dodo birds would make an excellent food source, it seems. > > > > > > When the human race is forced to evacuate the wasteland of our future > > > earth, > > > and a lucky few will get to colonize other planets, maybe we can take > > > some of > > > our animals with us. > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@ > > > lists.pearsoncomputing.net > > > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@lists. > > > pearsoncomputing.net > > > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users. > > > pearsoncomputing.net/ > > > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity. > > > pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@ > lists.pearsoncomputing.net > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@lists. > pearsoncomputing.net > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users. > pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity. > pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting