[LRflex] Re: Request for advice
- From: "David Scollard" <publisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:04:32 -0600
That's really neat. I'm glad to have this information, and insight.
Thanks, David
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From: "Charlie Falke" <chfalke@xxxxxxx>
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:00 PM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Request for advice
On 3/14/2010 3:12 PM, David Scollard wrote:
> Charlie, I've spent a lot of time pondering this, but completely without
> success - what is the significance of the rather cryptic diagram that you
> always append at the end of your letters, just below and to the right of
> your signature, and above the aphorism by von Braun? If it's not too
> secret
> to share, a deciphering would be greatly appreciated.
>
> best, David Scollard
>
David, Philippe, William,
In the beginning, there was the Darpanet, and then the Arpanet, and
the world was ASCII, and lines were 72 characters long and all the
same width. There were also no graphics, so if you wanted to make a
picture you had to make it out of ASCII characters. The people who
inhabited the net in those days were creative individuals and a lot
of them put "line art" in their signatures. Pretty much everybody
did this actually. This is around 1989, that's when I got out into it.
Then Bill Gates came along and decided proportional fonts would
provide a discriminator for his product, and made a proprietary
proportional font, which would work as long as everybody was running
*his* font, and the same size, and the same width page. To make my
signature
work with those machines, I set it up so it was preformatted in html
as a fixed width font, but something changed in the Leicaflex list
serve options, so that you had to send everything as plain text.
Nevertheless, if you set your mail for a fixed font such as Courier
New,
it will suggest this airplane:
http://www.nasm.si.edu/images/collections/media/full/A19500101000cp02.jpg
That is not my PA-12, it's one in the Smithsonian that flew around the
world, it was made about a year sooner. Mine doesn't have an O-235
any longer either, it has an O-320. (bigger engine now)
When I get around to posting pictures, I'll post an image of it,
starting
with a self portrait reflected in its altimeter reading 12,500 feet,
holding a IIIf, shot on KPM.
The quotes express ideals developed in the course of my professional
life. I was a test engineer for most of it.
Hope this helps. :-)
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein
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