On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 04:23:51AM +0000, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> On Monday 01 November 2004 03:01, Richard Rauch wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 02:52:37AM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> > > Richard Rauch wrote:
> > > >For an animal, I would (for a second time) nominate the cockroach
> > > >as a good, politically correct mascott for NetBSD.  If the daemon
> > >
> > > Indeed.  Cockroaches were around long before humans, and probably will
> > > still be around, when we humans are long gone.  And they have been
> > > ported to about any corner of earth.
> >
> > Not to mention that they are small, fast, efficient, and their
> > constant cleaning of their feelers corresponds well with "clean
> > code" I think.
> 
> Small?  Clean?  You don't live in a big city, do you?

Houston, last I heard, is the 4th largest city in the U.S., by
headcount.  (But Houston sprawls...)

If I see a cockroach bigger than a cat, I will recant on "small".
(^&  (I have seen what I believe must be a rat that was the size of
a large cat or small dog.)

If I see a cockroach bigger than a cat, I will probably consider
moving, too.

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