Let's rename the Lounge as the "Penguin Cafe"

[kentauros]

:D

Describing how the idea of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra came to him, Simon Jeffes said:

“In 1972 I was in the south of France. I had eaten some bad fish and was in consequence rather ill. As I lay in bed I had a strange recurring vision, there, before me, was a concrete building like a hotel or council block. I could see into the rooms, each of which was continually scanned by an electronic eye. In the rooms were people, everyone of them preoccupied. In one room a person was looking into a mirror and in another a couple were making love but lovelessly, in a third a composer was listening to music through earphones. Around him there were banks of electronic equipment. But all was silence. Like everyone in his place he had been neutralized, made grey and anonymous. The scene was for me one of ordered desolation. It was as if I were looking into a place which had no heart. Next day when I felt better, I was on the beach sunbathing and suddenly a poem popped into my head. It started out 'I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe, I will tell you things at random' and it went on about how the quality of randomness, spontaneity, surprise, unexpectedness and irrationality in our lives is a very precious thing. And if you suppress that to have a nice orderly life, you kill off what's most important. Whereas in the Penguin Cafe your unconscious can just be. It's acceptable there, and that's how everybody is. There is an acceptance there that has to do with living the present with no fear in ourselves.

[pokerfan]

1. Works for me

Tux is a penguin character and the official mascot of the Linux kernel.<1> Originally created as an entry to a Linux logo competition, Tux is the most commonly used icon for Linux, although different Linux distributions depict Tux in various styles.

[kentauros]

2. Although I don't use Linux ( as there's more than 5-minute learning curve)

that's a good mascot-image. There's also Chilly Willy

[pokerfan]

6. It was much less than I thought

as I was already using Firefox and Open Office under Windows. (Both are included with Ubuntu.)

[Xipe Totec]

3. Recommend this thread if you agree

Oops! Can't recommend!

:evilgrin:

[kentauros]

4. Okay, bump/kick this thread if you agree

[Phentex]

5. I like it!

:kick:

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