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Article #577Re: "Cute" picture
From: Nick Rothwell
Date: Fri, 25 May 1990 11:15
Date: Fri, 25 May 1990 11:15
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In article <9005242140.AA06182@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU>, BRIMS@UCLASTRO writes: >Dear All, > Since Nick Rothwell has thought to honour us with his opinion of what >constitutes "a totally inappropriate and rather nausiating (sic) "cute" >picture", Aw, c'mon guys, it was just my opinion... >perhaps for the benefit of those of us who have not seen it he might >enlighten us as to (a) what it depicts and (b) what part of his >political/moral/artistic senses it offends. (a) it is a picture of a line of bicycles, connected wheel-to-wheel, being ridden by PC clones along a piece of line-printer output. (b) I just don't like it. I don't like most of Byte's illustrations; they try to be humorous in some banale way unrelated to the article they illustrate. They could use the space in a more constructive way This is, of course, just my opinion... ...and not much to do with transputers. >George Brims Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ Ich weiss jetzt was kein Engel weiss
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!lfcs!nick From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: "Cute" picture Message-ID: <4213@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 25 May 90 11:15:04 GMT References: <9005242140.AA06182@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU> Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: Jenny Agutter Appreciation Society of Edinburgh Lines: 30 In-reply-to: BRIMS@UCLASTRO.BITNET