Re: Extra Apps package list

[Jamin Philip Gray <jgray writeme com>]

> On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 linas linas org wrote:
> 
> > > Gnome Plus Pack
> > > Gnome "Goodies"
> > > Gnome Extra
> > > Gnome PowerApps
> > > Gnome 1.4-buddy
> > > Gnome Assbarn Collection
> > 
> > Ughh. I'd rather be part of gnome office than any of these. 
> > 
> > How about 
> > "the Kitchen Sink"
> > "Lock Stock & Barrel"   (pointing a gun at microsoft?)
> > "Everything but the Girl"
> > "U Name It"
> > "Stock"             ("If it's in Stock, We got It")
> > "the Rest of It"    (you forgot to install 'the rest of it')
> 
> I like these.  Here we have some creative juices flowing.  Now that it is
> late at night and most of my brain is asleep, the last few cells suggest:
> 
> 1) The "Right-Foot" Packages: (As the GNOME "G" footprint is the left
> foot.)
> 
> or
> 
> 2) The GNOME "Emong" Packages: (Obviously GNOME spelled backwards)
> 
> or
> 
> 3) The GNOME "Fifth-Toe" Packages: (I always wonder where his 5th toe was)
> 
> All of these suggest obvious logos which include the standard GNOME logo.
> 
> I think I prefer #3.

These are excellent.  #3 is classic.

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free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the
mental power of the race.  Before the introduction of the Arabic notation,
multiplication was difficult, and the division even of integers called
into play the highest mathematical faculties.  Probably nothing in the
modern world would have more astonished a Greek mathematician than to
learn that...a large proportion of the population of Western Europe could
perform the operation of division for the largest numbers.  This fact
would have seemed to him a sheer impossibility...our modern power of easy
reckoning with decimal fractions is the almost miraculous result of
gradual discovery of a perfect notation.

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