From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-12-14T21:38:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Weekly News 6th - 12th December 2004

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 07:32 am, Dave Burt wrote:
| "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@runbox.com> wrote...
|
| > On Tuesday 14 December 2004 04:27 am, Dave Burt wrote:
| > | ... Dave posted a short program ([img2ascii.rb]) that
| > | used the [ruby-gd] library to automatically convert the original image
| >
| > to
| >
| > | ASCII, and an alternative big ASCII-art duck that was constructed with
| > | [Jave] (Java ASCII Versatile Editor).
| >
| > That's good. But why did you not credit yourself? Isn't that final
| > large-ascii
| > version your doing?
|
| I don't know how much credit I can take for "Dave's duck":
| ruby -rdrb -e "DRb.start_service;duck=DRbObject.new(nil,
| 'druby://whytheluckystiff.net:6503');puts duck.daves"
|
| Why the lucky stiff drew it, and some software I found turned it into ASCII
| with a bit of configurification by me.
|
| But I did claim to have posted it:
| "Dave posted ..., and an alternative big ASCII-art duck that was ..."
|
| Feel free to improve this text if it's unclear.

Oops. Never mind. I misread as:

  ASCII. And an alternative big ASCII-art duck was constructed with
  [Jave] (Java ASCII Versatile Editor).

Silly me.

T.