Subject: Re: NetBSD/toaster at LinuxWorld San Francisco
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.org>
From: Richard Grace <rjgrace@fastmail.fm>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 08/17/2005 12:54:22
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:30:14 +0900 (JST), "Curt Sampson" <cjs@cynic.net>
said:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> > Get a big pile of bread & butter, and hand out buttered toast. :)
> > (Bonus points for making a sieve with our new logo, and putting some stuff on 
> > the buttered toast - cinnamon-sugar or anything else that gives some contrast 
> > in the shape of our logo :)
> 
> I would take a cue from Hello Kitty, and put a metal mask inside
> the toaster that toasts a pattern on to the toast itself. (The mask
> greatly reduces the radient heat applied to the bread, thus selectively
> lightening parts of the toasted area.) The Hello Kitty toaster toasts,
> of course, an image of Kitty-chan, but for us perhaps a NetBSD text or
> logo would be more suitable.

About 4 years ago the weather toaster toasted the weather forecast onto
bread using an embedded java device.

  http://www.culturelab-uk.com/site/templates/print_view.asp?ID=96

Rich.


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