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r...@shiftinnull.ronnet.moc

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Dec 6, 2022, 4:17:58 PM12/6/22
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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.

Eli the Bearded

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Dec 7, 2022, 5:50:32 PM12/7/22
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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
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a lot of Joan's art got reused

Mriganka Kumar Sarma

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Dec 31, 2022, 11:48:39 PM12/31/22
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Eli the Bearded

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Jan 1, 2023, 2:36:57 AM1/1/23
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That looks like a globe that lost all leading whitespace.
Nope. It's Thomas Jefferson on a nickel (US five cent coin).

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

Martin 'Martinland' Schemitsch

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Feb 7, 2023, 10:36:34 AM2/7/23
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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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"I don't know. I'm making this up as I go!"
(Ford as Dr. Jones Jr. in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark')
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Colin Randall

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Feb 14, 2023, 2:06:45 PM2/14/23
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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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