Idle question of the day: who is the original nitwit that thought uppercase I (i) and lowercase l (L) should be the same symbol?
@TruthSandwich
That cost me hours debugging a basic program in the late 70’s, I had written some basic programming to inventory and schedule preventive maintenance on equipment but the program kept crashing. Printed out the program on a dot matrix printer and it and finally found a command that was directed to a line number with an O in it instead of a zero. It felt like finding a needle in a haystack, and I’d of been so proud of it, except I was the one who put it in there
@shuttersparks
@shuttersparks Excellent question! That guy really deserves to be tarred & feathered!😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍
@ArenaCops Exactly. My question wasn't entirely idle. I might go and disrespect their grave if I knew who it was. ;-)
@shuttersparks 😂😂😂 Don't forget to wash hands after disrespecting though!
It’s not one person.
It’s a coordinated global conspiracy by a group that goes by the name #SansSerif. Pretty hard to find the precise locus
@rameshgupta @shuttersparks Anyways, the UN should definitely designate #SansSerif a terrorist entity! 😎
Additionally, I’d go with crippling sanctions. That’ll teach them, if Phil’s disrespecting the grave of the founder doesn’t
@rameshgupta @shuttersparks I can't help it, sounds somewhat French to me - maybe they dilettantishly guillotined the Serifs, out of suspicion they were hostile foreign Sheriffs.
Yeah, always decapitate first, ask questions later.
#Robespierre, who advocated the mobilization of a sans-culotte (such close resemblance to sans-serif) army, was executed without trial.
@rameshgupta @shuttersparks It appears Serifs have also been taken out without due process. Shocking!
@ArenaCops @rameshgupta @shuttersparks It was Comic Sans that did it
@dogzilla @rameshgupta @shuttersparks Which consequently equates to "Trump did it!"
⬆️ @ArenaCops @dogzilla @shuttersparks
Pure gold, the last few posts have been!
#Trump == Comic Sans has committed the heinous act of serificide, and that shall not go unpunished.
I live in Illinois and the mere thought of this barbaric injustice makes me Ill. Every serif makes a difference and deserves a chance
@rameshgupta @dogzilla @shuttersparks We should hold a referendum on the introduction of a congressional Medal of Serifdom. In memoriam of its bravery on the front of fonts! 😎
⬆️ @ArenaCops @dogzilla @shuttersparks
>> We should hold a referendum on the introduction of a congressional Medal of #Serifdom.
I agree.
Every #serif will be free, from the sliver to the wee
⬆️ @ArenaCops @dogzilla @shuttersparks
"Trump says Biden was 'locked and loaded' to 'take me out' in Mar-a-Lago search"
Hey, what about the time #ComicSans was #lockedAndLoaded to take out the #serifs from all our fonts?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/21/trump-mar-a-lago-raid-fbi-deadly-force/
@rameshgupta @dogzilla @shuttersparks Yesterday the orange presidential office trojan was heard singing off-key "I shot the Serif".
Now half the world is having a meltdown.
It's outrageous!
😎
@shuttersparks Not to get all didactic or anything, but that's only true in sans serif fonts, which of course were invented way after the upper and lower case alphabet was invented.
@shuttersparks
You mean 0 and O?