I was thinking the same thing. TDE is a little like a dinosaur that has been resurrected; but it's a dinosaur that deserved better. The old KDE3 desktop suffered from a kind of artificial extinction from unnatural selection.
There is of course T. Rex.
Then again, maybe we ought to just make up our own dinosaur? It could be both a dinosaur, and mythical.
Bill
On Tuesday 12 June 2018 22:05:39 elcaseti wrote:
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 doctor_contendo@zoho.com
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@zoho.com>
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
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