The mugs have arrived!

The mugs have arrived!

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

9 heavy cases of mugs.  All the cases are marked with "COW" (in
Norwegian).

The packaging didn't arrive, though, so I'll have to check what's up
with that.  If I get the packaging tomorrow, I'll send out all the
ones I have, or on Wednesday.

They kinda look like what I wanted them to look like.  :-) Except that
the thin horizontal lines have gone missing.  Oh, well.  I toyed with
the idea of removing them anyway.  Perhaps I can get them reinstated
on the batch after Xmas.  We'll see.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: The mugs have arrived!

[Steve Harris]

Apologies to the list if this bit has already been discussed, but what
does the "In a cloud bones of steel" quote refer to? There's a date
span below it as a clue, but I'm stumped.
  Also, it hit me a couple of days ago (months too late) that the Gnus
logo actually spells something ("Gnus", perhaps? ;> ). Or am I just
seeing things? The 'G' looks reasonably clear, maybe an 'n' in the
front legs, but the trailing 'u' and 's' harder to get. Are they the
two upper curves of the back and hind legs? Surely this is documented
somewhere, right?

-- 
Steven E. Harris

Re: The mugs have arrived!

[Steve Harris]

Steve Harris <seh@speakeasy.org> writes:

> Apologies to the list if this bit has already been discussed, but what
> does the "In a cloud bones of steel" quote refer to? There's a date
> span below it as a clue, but I'm stumped.

[...]

Answering part of my own question, I found an old Lars post explaining
that the quote comes from the poem "The Bridge" by Charles
Reznikoff. [1]
  The second question remains open.

[1] http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/199608/msg00039.html

-- 
Steven E. Harris

In a cloud bones of steel.

[Justin Sheehy]

Steve Harris <seh@speakeasy.org> writes:

> Answering part of my own question, I found an old Lars post explaining
> that the quote comes from the poem "The Bridge" by Charles
> Reznikoff. 

It doesn't just come from the poem, it is the poem.

:-)

-Justin

 

Re: The mugs have arrived!

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Steve Harris <seh@speakeasy.org> writes:

> Apologies to the list if this bit has already been discussed, but what
> does the "In a cloud bones of steel" quote refer to? There's a date
> span below it as a clue, but I'm stumped.

The date below it is the lifespan of Charles Reznikoff, who wrote the
poem above.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen