[9fans] faces

[Steve Simon]

A general request to all 9fans.

If you don't have a face file on sources could you generate one
(for those of us who use faces(1)).

It really helps me to have an an image to associate with the people
I receive email from.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Adding_your_face/index.html

Once you have updated you local system you can the submit it to
sources using patch(1)

-Steve

[Steve Simon]

You can sumbim your own patches, or, alternatively if people
want to send me their face files and a list of email addresses
that they should be associated with them I will agregate them
all into a single patch.

I am happy to resize and reformat images but if you want this
service I will use mugs rather than crop so you only get black
and white. Supply the picture as 48x48 resolution and you will
be colourful

-Steve

[blst...@bellsouth.net]

> You can sumbim your own patches, or, alternatively if people
> want to send me their face files and a list of email addresses
> that they should be associated with them I will agregate them
> all into a single patch.

This is the one I've been using for myself for a while. It's
kind of old, but I haven't changed in all that time :) I'm
generally emailing from one of:

blst...@bellsouth.net
blst...@gmail.com

Thanks,
BLS

[Akshat Kumar]

Brian! Your computer thinks your face is harmful!

another one for cat-v

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:40 PM, <blst...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> from postmaster@vx32:
> The following attachment had content that we can't
> prove to be harmless.  To avoid possible automatic
> execution, we changed the content headers.
> The original header was:
>
>        Content-Type: application/octet-stream
>        Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=stuart.1
>        Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>

[blst...@bellsouth.net]

I get that a lot...but usually from women :)

BLS

[matt]

You can't prove harmlessness in people, hence the joyful collective
outcry of "all men are potential rapists". It's the halting problem of
human interaction

>>Brian! Your computer thinks your face is harmful!
>>
>>
>>

>>>The following attachment had content that we can't
>>>prove to be harmless.
>>>
>>>
>

[Patrick Kelly]

On Jan 7, 2010, at 8:33 AM, matt <maht-...@maht0x0r.net> wrote:

> You can't prove harmlessness in people, hence the joyful collective
> outcry of "all men are potential rapists". It's the halting problem
> of human interaction

All women are potential rapists too, further complicating the problem.

[blst...@bellsouth.net]

> You can't prove harmlessness in people, hence the joyful collective
> outcry of "all men are potential rapists". It's the halting problem of
> human interaction
>
>>>Brian! Your computer thinks your face is harmful!

I never thought of it that way, but I like that analogy. At
least no one has written a letter to the CACM titled "Brian's
face considered harmful." Would that lead to a fad of
aesthetic programming?

BLS

[Jeff Sickel]

On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:59 PM, blst...@bellsouth.net wrote:

> I never thought of it that way, but I like that analogy. At
> least no one has written a letter to the CACM titled "Brian's
> face considered harmful." Would that lead to a fad of
> aesthetic programming?

Are you taunting us? I'm sure that at least a few on in
this group could pool their influence to get your face on
the cover of CACM.

I'm looking over "Data in Flight" or "Two Views of MapReduce
Capabilities" or "Rebuilding for Eternity" and all I'm
thinking is, Brian's floating face has replaced Charon
leading us across the River Styx so that we can make the best
of Limbo. In doing so he helps us to pass the First Circle
and continue our voyage without Go-ing nuts.

Unfortunately I get interrupted in mid thought with a small
interlude of Cleese instructing Brian to correct his Latin
grammar...

-jas