Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Question - 250

Identify the two men, the occasion and what the bearded man is holding. The second visual can be taken as a clue.

Answer: The visual shows Linus Torvalds shaving the 27 year old beard of open source guru Bdale Garbee in a program to raise awareness about the deadly facial tumor decimating the Tasmanian devil population. As part of this, Linux also changed its logo from Tux the penguin to Tuz the Tasmanian devil (shown in Garbee's hand). The second visual is the Disney character, Taz, the Tasmanian devil. Swapnaa, tsp, Manix, Raghu, nice try, Rajesh, Hari, Johnny Walker and Adi got it. Well done.

9 comments:

swapnaa said...

Its Linus Torvalds (of Linux fame) shaving Bdale Garbee's beard to raise funds for Tasmanian Devil facial tumour disease research. The second image is Taz - the TD from Looney Tunes.

tsp said...

Quoting ZDNet: "Linux founder Linus Torvalds shaves Hewlett-Packard Linux CTO and open-source luminary Bdale Garbee's beard to raise money for the endangered Tasmanian Devil species"

Anonymous said...

Linus Torvalds shaves Bdale Garbee's beard to raise money for the endangered Tasmanian Devil species. Garbee is holding Tux, the Linux penguin mascot.

Raghu said...

Linus shaves Bdale Garbee's 27-year old beard for Tasmanian Devil facial tumor research.

The cartoon is of Taz the tasmanian devil.

nice try said...

guy standing is linux torvalds. dont know the bearded guy.
bearded guy is holding "tux" the mascot for linux.

right side = tasmanian devil; probably a reference to how the inspiration for using a penguin as the mascor came when linus was visiting some zoo in australia?

rajesh said...

Linus Torvalds, Bdale Garbee, Tux and the Tasmanian devil. Occasion - charity auction to save the Tasmanian devil.

Hari said...

Thats Linus Torvalds shaving Bdale Garbee's decades old beard to raise funds for some research purpose

Johny Walker said...

linus torvalds shaves bdale garbee at the charity event to "Save the tasmanian devil" (linux mascot changed to tuz, the tasmanian devil)

Anonymous said...

Linus Torvalds cutting Bdale Garbee's beard to raise emoney for Tasmanian Devils. Bdale is holding Tuz, a Tasmanian devil that is the new Linux mascot. On the right is Taz, the Tasmanian Devil in looney tunes.