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From: Ed Bradford <egbegb2@gmail.com>
To: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] I made a tar tape
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 03:25:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHTagfGVcOVuq8kfW62EzUWJ=YVGMsuzfBgkopKfJmHNDW813w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgxFanKrTjbjx9UcrH1TXorXq9BW-560zwZVgyBLpy7OZQ@mail.gmail.com>

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For those interested, the source to festoon can be found here and I cannot
be blamed for any copyright infringement.

Y'all ought to read Ron's code. Relax with a bottle of Blantons nearby and
enjoy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060821141209/http://www.tribug.org/pub/tuhs/Applications/Festoon/

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:50 PM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe Festoon was covered in a Sci Am article by Dewdney. It
> included Mark V Shaney, some computer-generated poetry, and other
> horrors, including computer-generated Baudrillard.
>
> -rob
>
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 9:05 AM Mike Markowski <mike.ab3ap@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > That took me a few tries - love it! :-)    - Mike Markowski
> >
> > On 3/20/20 5:26 PM, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
> > > I remember Ron! He was quite a character. And I remember festoon.
> > >
> > > Was it he, or Bob Flandrena, that gave us the holiday poetical and
> > > phonetical treat:
> > >
> > >      Tweeze Denied Beef Workers Isthmus
> > >
> > > (Say it out loud fast, with a pause in the middle of "Workers", to get
> it).
> > >
> > > I think I have it on paper somewhere, but no soft copy.
> > >
> > >      Mary Ann
>


-- 
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
  Cicero

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-22  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-20 20:13 Ed Bradford
2020-03-20 21:26 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-03-20 22:04   ` Mike Markowski
2020-03-20 22:49     ` Rob Pike
2020-03-21  4:03       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-21 16:06         ` William Cheswick
2020-03-21 20:46           ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-21 22:29             ` Warner Losh
2020-03-21 23:01             ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-22 21:30               ` Paul Winalski
2020-03-22  8:25       ` Ed Bradford [this message]
2020-03-21  0:16   ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-21  0:28     ` Rob Pike
2020-03-21  1:14       ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2020-03-21  1:48         ` Rob Pike

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