[TUHS] Who is that in the framed photograph near the ceiling?

[TUHS] Who is that in the framed photograph near the ceiling?

[Norman Wilson]

Steve Simon:

  once again i am taken aback at the good taste of the residents of the unix room.

As a whilom denizen of that esteemed playroom, I question
both the accuracy and the relevance of that metric.

Besides, what happened to the sheep shelf?  Was it scrubbed
away after I left?  And, Ken, whatever happened to Dolly the
Sheep (after she was hidden to avoid upsetting visitors)?

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
No longer a subscriber to sheep! magazine

Re: [TUHS] Who is that in the framed photograph near the ceiling?

[Ken Thompson]

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dolly is at my home in san jose.
she says "hi."


On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 3:17 PM Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:

> Steve Simon:
>
>   once again i am taken aback at the good taste of the residents of the
> unix room.
>
> As a whilom denizen of that esteemed playroom, I question
> both the accuracy and the relevance of that metric.
>
> Besides, what happened to the sheep shelf?  Was it scrubbed
> away after I left?  And, Ken, whatever happened to Dolly the
> Sheep (after she was hidden to avoid upsetting visitors)?
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
> No longer a subscriber to sheep! magazine
>

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[TUHS] Who is that in the framed photograph near the ceiling?

[Steve Simon]

great picture.

once again i am taken aback at the good taste of the residents of the unix room.

-Steve

Re: [TUHS] Who is that in the framed photograph near the ceiling?

[Kenneth Goodwin]

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And their elite dumpster diving skills.....

On Sun, Aug 8, 2021, 5:32 PM Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

>
> great picture.
>
> once again i am taken aback at the good taste of the residents of the unix
> room.
>
> -Steve

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[TUHS] Who is that in the framed photograph near the ceiling?

[William Cheswick]

> I don't think anyone knows. Nobody relevant, I believe.
>
> -rob

I understand that Dave Presotto bought that photo at a garage sale for $1.  The photo hung in
the Unix Room for years, at one point labeled “Peter Weinberger.”

One day I removed it from its careful mounting and scanned in the photo.  It bore the label
“what, no steak?”  

The photo was stolen from a wall sometime after I left.  The scanned image is at
https://cheswick.com/ches/tmp/whatnosteak.jpeg

ches