[boost] Re: Boost Logo Contest Extended [mascot]

From: Edward Diener (eddielee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-17 22:58:54

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
> Edward Diener wrote:
>> David B. Held wrote:
>>> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>
>>>> Is there room for two ghosts in the software world?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
>>>
>>> Well, there's lots more ghosts than that.  There's Norton Ghost as
>>> well.  But the name isn't "ghost".  It's "Boo". ;>  And eventually,
>>> even O'Reilly will have to start reusing animals.
>>
>> Eventually is right, as in after printing a new book each day for
>> thirty thousand years at least. The number of animal species in
>> existence is far greater than you imagine. Even if we take only the
>> number of vertebrate species, which make up a mere 1% or so of the
>> total number of animal species, I do not think that O'Reilly will
>> run out of animals any time soon.
>
> I think Dave was just talking about the cute and cuddly animals.

Oh, homo sapiens <g>. But I remember a few on the O'Reilly's covers which I
would not call "cute and cuddly".