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  • Joan Stark sighting

    From ron@shiftinnull.ronnet.moc@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Dec 7 08:25:48 2022
    Just noticed in the readme for asciiquarium, a perlscript that fills a terminal with a aquarium/sea animation by Kirk Baucom:

    Contributors
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    Pretty much all of the ASCII art was done by Joan Stark:
    http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/

    Anything that she didn't do, I don't have a source for.


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  • From Eli the Bearded@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Dec 8 09:50:30 2022
    In alt.ascii-art, <ron@shiftinnull.ronnet.moc> wrote:
    Just noticed in the readme for asciiquarium, a perlscript that fills a terminal with a aquarium/sea animation by Kirk Baucom:

    Script and readme here:

    https://github.com/Eli-the-Bearded/vt100-slowcat/tree/master/misc-old-code/asciiquarium

    Elijah
    ------
    a lot of Joan's art got reused

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  • From Mriganka Kumar Sarma@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Jan 1 15:48:38 2023
    On Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 4:20:32 AM UTC+5:30, Eli the Bearded wrote:
    In alt.ascii-art, <r...@shiftinnull.ronnet.moc> wrote:
    Just noticed in the readme for asciiquarium, a perlscript that fills a terminal with a aquarium/sea animation by Kirk Baucom:
    Script and readme here:

    https://github.com/Eli-the-Bearded/vt100-slowcat/tree/master/misc-old-code/asciiquarium

    Elijah
    ------
    a lot of Joan's art got reused
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  • From Eli the Bearded@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Jan 1 18:36:56 2023
    In alt.ascii-art, Mriganka Kumar Sarma <banijoon2@gmail.com> wrote:
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    That looks like a globe that lost all leading whitespace.

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    Nope. It's Thomas Jefferson on a nickel (US five cent coin).

    Elijah
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    http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24


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  • From Martin 'Martinland' Schemitsch@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Feb 8 03:36:28 2023
    On Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:36:56 +0100, Eli the Bearded wrote:
    That looks like a globe that lost all leading whitespace.
    [...]
    Nope. It's Thomas Jefferson on a nickel (US five cent coin).

    LOL

    Nice!

    *thumbs*up*

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  • From Colin Randall@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Feb 15 06:06:42 2023
    On 07/02/2023 16:36, Martin 'Martinland' Schemitsch wrote:
    On Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:36:56 +0100, Eli the Bearded wrote:
    That looks like a globe that lost all leading whitespace.
    [...]
    Nope. It's Thomas Jefferson on a nickel (US five cent coin).

    LOL

    Nice!

    *thumbs*up*

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    43-lined signatures rule! :)

    then you'll like mine...

    -joan
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