From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 1 09:44:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA07572 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 09:44:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kithrup.com (kithrup.com [205.179.156.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA07528 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 09:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sef@localhost) by kithrup.com (8.8.5/8.6.6) id JAA05705; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 09:43:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 09:43:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Eric Fagan Message-Id: <199709011643.JAA05705@kithrup.com> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the daemon chasing? In-Reply-To: <199709011004.DAA06818.kithrup.freebsd.chat@implode.root.com> References: Your message of "Mon, 01 Sep 1997 17:58:21 +0930." <19970901175821.15741@lemis.com> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199709011004.DAA06818.kithrup.freebsd.chat@implode.root.com> you write: > There are at least two different interpretations: >1) A giant sperm cell. *Why* he would wish to do this is unknown. It's amazing how many people guess that. I know *I* did. You could get into all sorts of hidden symbolisms, since Kirk is gay, but I think it unlikely ;). Officially, it's an orb that is moving very quickly, thus leaving a trail. Why the orb's there, I dunno. Probably represents the fact that BSD was no longer dependent on AT&T licenses, and thus was searching for its own little logo (with the AT&T deathstar and Novell deathsquare and now SCO deathtree-over-looking-bay being the other side, of course).