From: "Avdi B.Grimm" <avdi@...>
Date: 2001-09-10T23:37:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21032] My $0.02 on a mascot

I know, I know, it's been talked to death already.

I just wanted to say, someone proposed the Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, and that 
really struck a chord with me.  I'll never forget the enchanted day I once 
spent as a young child on the slopes of Mt. Dolly Sods, assisting bird 
watchers in catching and banding kinglets for migration counts.  The kinglet 
is a remarkable bird. At first sight, a male Ruby-Crowned Kinglet is a drab, 
unexciting little thing with a dull, rusty stripe of color on it's head. But 
the slightest breath on his head causes the feathers to ruffle up, and the 
under-feathers to show through. Suddenly, this formerly dull bird has a 
brilliant, flourescent-red blaze crowning his little head.

So to me the Kinglet has always been a symbol of hidden beauty lying just 
below the surface;  and also a rememinder of a wonderful weekend spent in the 
mountains of West Virginia.

Aslo, FWIW, I think the only impression many of the people I know would get 
from an Anime babe as as a mascot would be that Ruby is a language for 
pimply-faced, maladjusted computer nerds who live in their parent's basement 
and have never had a girlfriend. ;-)