[#121980] SOT gmail invites — Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@...>

X % of the people of this list appear to be using GoogleMail, where X

93 messages 2004/12/01
[#122062] Re: SOT gmail invites — Steve Zich <szich@...> 2004/12/01

On 2004-11-30 19:26:08 -0800, Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@gmail.com> said:

[#122063] Re: SOT gmail invites — Robert McGovern <robert.mcgovern@...> 2004/12/01

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 02:17:45 +0900, Steve Zich >

[#122065] Re: SOT gmail invites — tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...> 2004/12/01

i've got 3 left...

[#122066] Re: SOT gmail invites — Pat Eyler <pate@...> 2004/12/01

I'd take one,

[#122072] Re: SOT gmail invites — tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...> 2004/12/01

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 02:58:33 +0900, you wrote:

[#122073] Re: SOT gmail invites — Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...> 2004/12/01

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 03:57:19 +0900, tony summerfelt

[#122075] Re: SOT gmail invites — Matt Maycock <ummaycoc@...> 2004/12/01

I've got some, too...

[#122112] Re: SOT gmail invites — Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@...> 2004/12/02

Ok, who missed out, I've got a couple left.

[#122120] Re: SOT gmail invites — Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...> 2004/12/02

Lyndon Samson wrote:

[#122240] Re: SOT gmail invites — Stefan Schmiedl <s@...> 2004/12/02

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:34:29 +0900,

[#122246] Re: SOT gmail invites — Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...> 2004/12/02

Stefan Schmiedl wrote:

[#122254] Re: SOT gmail invites — Carl Youngblood <carlwork@...> 2004/12/02

Jamis Buck wrote:

[#122397] Re: SOT gmail invites — Hans Fugal <hans@...> 2004/12/03

Carl Youngblood wrote:

[#122400] Re: SOT gmail invites — Carl Youngblood <carlwork@...> 2004/12/03

Hans Fugal wrote:

[#122427] Re: SOT gmail invites — Hans Fugal <hans@...> 2004/12/03

Carl Youngblood wrote:

[#122069] Rails with webrick slow as snails — Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@...>

I've followed the sample installation

15 messages 2004/12/01
[#122071] Re: Rails with webrick slow as snails — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...> 2004/12/01

> BUT

[#122083] Re: Rails with webrick slow as snails — Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@...> 2004/12/01

David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:

[#122110] ordered hash ? — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>

Is there a pure-ruby ordered hash? I'm looking for something that will

44 messages 2004/12/02
[#122176] Re: ordered hash ? — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...> 2004/12/02

* itsme213 <itsme213@hotmail.com> [Dec 02, 2004 14:00]:

[#122156] Does anyone have benchmark programs for YARV? — SASADA Koichi <ko1@...>

Hi,

18 messages 2004/12/02

[#122177] nested defs, what if... — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>

This is too half-baked to be an RCR, but here goes...

17 messages 2004/12/02
[#122179] Re: nested defs, what if... — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/12/02

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:44:08 +0900, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng

[#122212] Re: nested defs, what if... — Brian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Schr=F6der?= <ruby@...> 2004/12/02

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:57:09 +0900

[#122180] Net::SSH 0.6.0 — Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...>

Here's another release of Net::SSH, your friendly neighborhood pure-Ruby

12 messages 2004/12/02

[#122288] Ruby documentation. — Adam Fabian <afabian@...>

I'm kind of getting the impression that Ruby might not be

31 messages 2004/12/03

[#122350] Crosswords (#10) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

18 messages 2004/12/03

[#122371] GC run at end of script execution - order in which objects are claimed? — Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2004/12/03

[#122416] *sigh* Anyone having wireless working on a linux machine? — "Abraham Vionas" <abe_ml@...>

I've tried something like eight different distributions and the best I've

11 messages 2004/12/03

[#122444] Using yield — "Joe Van Dyk" <joe.vandyk@...>

I come from a heavy C++ background, discovered Ruby a few months ago and

26 messages 2004/12/04

[#122475] Ruby 2.0 — "Joe Van Dyk" <joe.vandyk@...>

When is Ruby 2.0 due? Or estimated due date?

44 messages 2004/12/04
[#122544] Re: Ruby 2.0 — w_a_x_man@... (William James) 2004/12/04

Brian Mitchell <binary42@gmail.com> wrote

[#122549] Re: Ruby 2.0 — Florian Gross <flgr@...> 2004/12/04

William James wrote:

[#122554] Re: Ruby 2.0 — Giovanni Intini <intinig@...> 2004/12/04

> 32.times{|y|print" "*(31-y),(0..y).map{|x|~y&x>0?" .":" A"},$/}

[#122604] Re: Ruby 2.0 — Florian Gross <flgr@...> 2004/12/05

Giovanni Intini wrote:

[#122619] patch to "make def return something useful" — Peter <Peter.Vanbroekhoven@...>

In RCR 277 it is proposed to have def return something useful, more

15 messages 2004/12/06

[#122630] Freezing Variable Assignment — Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>

Hi,

62 messages 2004/12/06
[#122740] Re: Freezing Variable Assignment — "itsme213" <itsme213@...> 2004/12/06

[#122762] Re: Freezing Variable Assignment — "itsme213" <itsme213@...> 2004/12/07

[#122766] Re: Freezing Variable Assignment — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/12/07

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 12:07:32 +0900, itsme213 <itsme213@hotmail.com>

[#122805] Re: Freezing Variable Assignment — Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...> 2004/12/07

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 13:44:09 +0900, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:

[#122644] Signatures and one liners — Brian Mitchell <binary42@...>

readers.each{|x| puts "Hi #{x},"}

23 messages 2004/12/06

[#122645] Duck images — "Dave Burt" <dave@...>

Hi,

35 messages 2004/12/06
[#122697] Re: Duck images — ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson) 2004/12/06

In article <vcSsd.61264$K7.35690@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,

[#122713] Re: Duck images — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/06

On Monday 06 December 2004 12:52 pm, Phil Tomson wrote:

[#122715] Re: Duck images — Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@...> 2004/12/06

0>

[#122696] Ruby Article at Linux Journal — pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>

Hey, it looks like our own Ara Howard has been busy. He's got a cool

15 messages 2004/12/06

[#122775] Recommened readings? — "John" <jtrunek@...>

For one of my university courses, I have to complete a paper on Ruby.

13 messages 2004/12/07

[#122782] Ruby Weekly News 29th Nov - 5th Dec 2004 — timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyNews/2004-11-29

12 messages 2004/12/07

[#122798] Idiom for creating hash from two arrays — Jonathan Paisley <jp-www@...>

Hello all,

22 messages 2004/12/07

[#122875] Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd — "Pe, Botp" <botp@...>

Ryan Davis [mailto:ryand-ruby@zenspider.com] wrote:

30 messages 2004/12/08
[#122886] Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2004/12/08

Hi,

[#122894] Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/08

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 12:00 am, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#122940] Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd — Florian Frank <flori@...> 2004/12/08

On 2004-12-08 15:56:01 +0900, trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

[#123046] Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/09

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 10:00 am, Florian Frank wrote:

[#123068] Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd — Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@...> 2004/12/09

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

[#123085] Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/09

On Thursday 09 December 2004 08:19 am, Glenn Parker wrote:

[#123100] Re: String#split behaves odd — Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed <iumarumohammed@...> 2004/12/09

++ trans. (T. Onoma) [ruby-talk] [10/12/04 00:43 +0900]:

[#123103] Re: String#split behaves odd — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/09

On Thursday 09 December 2004 12:29 pm, Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed wrote:

[#122918] RubyScript2Exe 0.2.0 — "Erik Veenstra" <pan@...>

28 messages 2004/12/08

[#123076] Crosswords (#10) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The summary for this week's quiz should be:

11 messages 2004/12/09

[#123137] Want to Write a Book? — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

Gentle Ruby folk:

40 messages 2004/12/10

[#123189] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

58 messages 2004/12/10
[#123196] Re: [QUIZ] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11) — Brian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Schr=F6der?= <ruby@...> 2004/12/10

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:29:02 +0900

[#123198] Re: [QUIZ] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2004/12/10

On Dec 10, 2004, at 9:19 AM, Brian Schrer wrote:

[#123204] Re: [QUIZ] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11) — Brian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Schr=F6der?= <ruby@...> 2004/12/10

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:42:04 +0900

[#123206] Re: [QUIZ] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2004/12/10

On Dec 10, 2004, at 10:11 AM, Brian Schrer wrote:

[#123218] Re: [QUIZ] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11) — Brian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Schr=F6der?= <ruby@...> 2004/12/10

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 01:22:30 +0900

[#123313] Re: [QUIZ] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11) — Hans Fugal <fugalh@...> 2004/12/11

It would be good to be able to play against eachother when this is all

[#123195] iconv replacement for windows? — Thomas Leitner <t_leitner@...>

Hi,

17 messages 2004/12/10
[#123205] Re: iconv replacement for windows? — Thomas Leitner <t_leitner@...> 2004/12/10

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:45:11 +0900

[#123222] How to make a deep copy of an object (Searching for Idiom) — Brian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Schr=F6der?= <ruby@...>

Hello Group,

18 messages 2004/12/10

[#123317] puts / print as method not keyword? — zuzu <sean.zuzu@...>

so, i'm thinking about language design with a particular interest in

23 messages 2004/12/11
[#123319] Re: puts / print as method not keyword? — Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@...> 2004/12/11

[#123321] Re: puts / print as method not keyword? — zuzu <sean.zuzu@...> 2004/12/11

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 05:23:10 +0900, Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@misfiring.net> wrote:

[#123351] Find every location of "th" in string. — "William James" <w_a_x_man@...>

Find location of every "th" in "the thin man thinks".

14 messages 2004/12/12

[#123426] Any bug/issue trackers written in Ruby? — "J. D." <jd@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2004/12/12

[#123454] Abstracts and Interfaces in Ruby? — Miles Keaton <mileskeaton@...>

What's the recommended Ruby way to do abstract classes and abstract methods?

12 messages 2004/12/13

[#123590] wxRuby and other GUI toolkits — Nick <devel@...>

24 messages 2004/12/14
[#123616] Re: wxRuby and other GUI toolkits — "itsme213" <itsme213@...> 2004/12/14

Any chance you could provide a simplified interface along the lines

[#123614] Apache2, FastCGI and Rails on Windows — "Williams, Chris" <Chris.Williams@...>

I've been running around in circles trying to enable FastCGI on my rails

20 messages 2004/12/14
[#123630] Re: Apache2, FastCGI and Rails on Windows — Kent Sibilev <ksibilev@...> 2004/12/14

I'm running my rails application on the same environment and it works

[#123825] Re: Apache2, FastCGI and Rails on Windows — Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@...> 2004/12/16

Kent Sibilev wrote:

[#123831] Re: Apache2, FastCGI and Rails on Windows — Kent Sibilev <ksibilev@...> 2004/12/16

Oh, This is quite easy. I assume you have Ruby and RubyForApache

[#123626] Ruby Wiki engine w/ability to upload files — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>

Hello again,

12 messages 2004/12/14

[#123661] rand.rb 0.9: Random access methods for Enumerables — Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@...>

Hello all, here's a little convenience library we whipped up a couple

17 messages 2004/12/15

[#123694] Re: [BUG] unknown node type 0 - SERIOUS ENOUGH TO MIGRATE AWAY FROM RUBY? — Andrew Walrond <andrew@...>

This is a long standing bug in Ruby, and has been reported hundreds of times

16 messages 2004/12/15

[#123740] P2P application in 15 lines of Python posted on slashdot — slonik AZ <slonik.az@...>

Hi Everybody,

16 messages 2004/12/15

[#123815] Ruby Cocoa (OS X) questions: deployment & interface builder — Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@...>

Folks,

13 messages 2004/12/16

[#123852] Rails 0.9: Fast development, breakpoints, validations... — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>

Another huge upgrade with again close to 100 changes, additions, and

10 messages 2004/12/16

[#123898] Scrabble Stems (#12) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

22 messages 2004/12/17

[#123983] OT: vi useability question — Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>

Hello ruby-talk,

30 messages 2004/12/18
[#124013] Re: OT: vi useability question — Roeland Moors <roelandmoors@...> 2004/12/19

On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:07:28AM +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:

[#124130] Re: OT: vi useability question — Hans Fugal <fugalh@...> 2004/12/20

Roeland Moors wrote:

[#124131] A RDoc template without frames — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>

Despite the snazzy look of the new default RDoc templates with three

21 messages 2004/12/20
[#124171] Re: A RDoc template without frames — "John W. Long" <ng@...> 2004/12/21

I did a design up once for something without frames:

[#124176] Re: A RDoc template without frames — why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...> 2004/12/21

John W. Long wrote:

[#124140] Is there any ruby compatible graphics/imaging utilities ... — Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@...>

that works under native mswin323232 or at least with Cygwin X windows

16 messages 2004/12/20

[#124175] Text::Hyphen 1.0.0 — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>

I just told you that I'm releasing Text::Hyphen 1.0.0, and here it is

14 messages 2004/12/21

[#124182] curses - how to use unicode — Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>

Yesterday I got xterm working with UTF-8. I had made an oneliner that

13 messages 2004/12/21

[#124198] Re: OT: vi useability question — "Pe, Botp" <botp@...>

Mikael Brockman [mailto:mikael@phubuh.org] wrote:

28 messages 2004/12/21
[#124200] Re: OT: vi useability question — Dick Davies <rasputnik@...> 2004/12/21

* "Pe?a, Botp" <botp@delmonte-phil.com> [1210 11:10]:

[#124290] Re: OT: vi useability question — Fredrik Jagenheim <jagenheim@...> 2004/12/22

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:16:14 +0900, Dick Davies

[#124329] All I want to do is move a directory :( — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>

Very frustrated. I have just spent well over an hour trying to do the simplest

16 messages 2004/12/22
[#124339] Re: All I want to do is move a directory :( — Gennady Bystritksy <gfb@...> 2004/12/22

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

[#124343] Re: All I want to do is move a directory :( — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/22

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 04:25 pm, Gennady Bystritksy wrote:

[#124344] Re: All I want to do is move a directory :( — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/23

I think the problem may be that the :force option isn't working correctly on

[#124391] Merry Christmas — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>

20 messages 2004/12/24
[#124397] Re: Merry Christmas — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/24

:( I get

[#124400] Re: Merry Christmas — CT <demerzel@...> 2004/12/24

> On Friday 24 December 2004 08:21 am, Christian Neukirchen wrote:

[#124433] Re: Merry Christmas — Michael Neumann <mneumann@...> 2004/12/25

CT wrote:

[#124413] ruby 1.8.2 — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>

Merry Christmas,

25 messages 2004/12/25

[#124439] HTML and CSS validation — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>

What's the best method to automate the validation

17 messages 2004/12/25

[#124502] Ri bug in new 1.8.2 release — jim@...

Hi

13 messages 2004/12/26

[#124562] split on '' (and another for split -1) — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>

Here's a generic routine I'm working on:

11 messages 2004/12/27

[#124591] Ruby Philosophy — Darren Crotchett <rubylang@...>

I'm trying to get a feel for the philosophical differences between Smalltalk,

19 messages 2004/12/28

[#124596] Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Thursday <nospam@...>

I think Ruby's popularity is growing, but I can't help but wonder what

196 messages 2004/12/28
[#127081] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2005/01/19

Hi all, I got to this discussion really late, but I have some ideas.

[#127100] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...> 2005/01/19

Ben Giddings wrote:

[#127162] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2005/01/19

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

[#127180] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/01/19

Hi,

[#127191] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2005/01/19

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#127207] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — ruby talk <ruby.talk.list@...> 2005/01/19

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:14:28 +0900, Ben Giddings

[#127228] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2005/01/19

ruby talk (AKA James Britt) wrote:

[#127232] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...> 2005/01/19

Ben Giddings (bg-rubytalk@infofiend.com) wrote:

[#127255] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...> 2005/01/19

why the lucky stiff ha scritto:

[#127315] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — "zimba.tm@..." <zimba.tm@...> 2005/01/20

I think it's cool to have community-driven websites,

[#127353] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2005/01/20

zimba.tm@gmail.com wrote:

[#127360] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/01/20

HI --

[#127369] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2005/01/20

David A. Black wrote:

[#127674] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/01/22

Hi --

[#127984] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2005/01/25

David A. Black wrote:

[#128748] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ian Hobson <Ian.Hobson@...> 2005/01/28

In message <41F58CEF.70807@infofiend.com>, Ben Giddings

[#127424] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...> 2005/01/20

David A. Black wrote:

[#127431] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — "Curt Hibbs" <curt@...> 2005/01/20

James Britt wrote:

[#127435] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...> 2005/01/21

Curt Hibbs wrote:

[#124652] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...> 2004/12/28

Thursday ha scritto:

[#124672] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Tom Copeland <tom@...> 2004/12/28

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 11:36, gabriele renzi wrote:

[#124674] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@...> 2004/12/28

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:54:01 +0900, Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> wrote:

[#124675] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Tom Copeland <tom@...> 2004/12/28

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 16:00, Premshree Pillai wrote:

[#125257] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland) 2005/01/06

In article <41D44401.4060104@mktec.com>, Zach Dennis wrote:

[#124607] help on making ruby code faster — David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>

I use 128bit GUID values a lot, and on my Guid class there's the

17 messages 2004/12/28

[#124612] verifying a network connection — Thomas Metz <metz@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2004/12/28

[#124746] #send and private methods — Brian Palmer <brian@...>

I apologize if this has been discussed before and I missed it...

12 messages 2004/12/29

[#124805] Inheritance of class variables — "Eustaquio Rangel de Oliveira Jr." <eustaquiorangel@...>

Hello there.

18 messages 2004/12/30

[#124899] Ruby and Smalltalk like environment?

Hi there,

14 messages 2004/12/31

Duck Images Weekly News 29th Nov - 5th Dec 2004

From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-12-07 16:25:19 UTC
List: ruby-talk #122817
druby://whytheluckystiff.net:6503

               Duck Images Weekly News 29th Nov - 5th Dec 2004
               -----------------------------------------------

 You are a busy and demanding person.  DIWN is here to sift through
 all the cruft and get straight to the ducks.  Now, sit down.

Articles and Announcements
--------------------------

  * [DIE Con '04 Miami, Dec 19th - Dec 20th]
  Don't miss this year's Duck Imagery Enthusiast Convention at the
  Hotel Radisson in Miami!  Talk about the perfect place to shake
  hands for hours with other duck guys!  Feel the unity that only
  comes from drawing ducks in very tight quarters!  Share a room
  with another guy and stay up late talking about beak design!

  Come on out.  Seriously.  This year's keynote will be delivered
  by notable duck imagerist Florian Frank.  "When There's Just No
  More Ducks To Draw -- A Non-Situation."

  * [Just Out From Simon & Schuster: Make a Duck, Make Someone's Day.]
  What great timing for the holiday season!  This new hardcover
  edition explores the therapeutic assistance provided to the world
  by graphic duck artists. 

  Do you think it is a coincidence that every time a new duck is
  artfully rendered in text, a new batch of septuplets is delivered? 

  Do you think it is a coincidence that every time a duck is
  discussed via nntp, an aged billionaire in excruciating pain
  takes his last breath, leaving his assets to a host of orphans
  and their ducks?

  AND DO YOU EVER WONDER WHY YOU HAVE THE GRACE OF A GAZELLE??  COME
  ON, ONE GUESS!

  * [New .duck protocol]
  Duck images will now no longer be accepted in traditional image
  compression formats.  .duck offers chunked, peer-to-peer downloads
  and enhanced metadata.  Hopefully this will solve future problems
  with unlicensed art ducks.
 
  * [Duck Image Legend Powerhouse Dies at 74]
  Sadfully, the Duck Allegaince declares and corroborates the
  passing of Jack M. Stevenhands.  He drew that famous duck with
  the leaf on its head.

Threads
-------

  Interesting threads this week included:

  [Duck Images]
  Dave Burt mounted an effort to expose possible duck mascots
  for the Ruby programming languages.  No one said much in response,
  but many ducks were drawn.

  One of his ducks was mistaken for a squirrel.  And it was also
  mistaken for a rabbit.  ([Ed. Note] -- Who draws rabbits and
  squirrels anymore??)  t. onoma offered a name: Type.  He also
  added bifocals to the duck.  (However, in his depictions, you
  can't really see the line across the lenses that indicates the
  top of the more heavily magnified lens.  A small thing, yet
  certainly worth mentioning in a small newsletter.)

  Michael DeHaan and Pat Eyler were there too.  Can't remember
  exactly what they did.  Drew ducks I guess.

  Oh, but, of course, the Grand Wizard Florian Frank was there
  to show everyone up.  And believe me, people were completely
  mortified by such an exquisite duck.  It quacked AND tread water.
  In real-time.  His code was sort of obfuscated, but I don't
  think there was any satellite linkup going on.  Who knows how
  he did it.

  Personally, I didn't think we'd advanced that much as a culture.
  I was pretty skeptical of mankind.  But now.  Oh, now my hope
  is unabashed.  It's a huge universe, kids.  And anything is
  possible.  That is the message of DIE.
 
  Qua-bye!!




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