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Re: Sigs to look for
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>
> > > > tell me, what is this character supposed to look like (it's a dotted
> > > > square on my pine) (see pointed at by ^^ s):
> > >
> > > in my Xwin font it's the little circle for "degrees", which looks like the
> > > eye of Tux. I changed it to small "O", for you here, but it's not the
> > > same...
> >
> > Ok, there is an equivalent character in PC terminal fonts (degree). I
> > don't remember the code. Somehow I feel you're the only one who sees the
> > original version ;)
>
> umm, anyone else not seeing Tux with an eye in my sig? I'll get me a new
> sig soon... one with all low ASCII chars...
umm, Ira, until now I had no idea that it is a Tux ASCII art. The engineer
in me saw two radio relay towers with dishes facing each other. I had a
moment of respite and I started thinking: this is definitely, definitely
not in Ira's usual line of thought so maybe I'll ask him to be sure ;)
Anyway I always use only 2 smileys: ;) and ;(
I've never had any misunderstandings so far. Can't say that about other's
symbologoy though ;) Had to ask politely a few times myself ;) ;)
Peter