Thursday, February 26, 2009

More from the archives...

It's been fun looking through the old graphics files. I came across another poster that I wanted to share from my days at the computing center. Although I knew of Pascal only as the author of those many dreaded Pensées that we had to translate in French class, it turns out that he was a prominent mathematician in the 17th century and the Pascal computer language was named in his honor. I had a vague idea of when he lived ('though it turned out I was off by about 100 years on the fashions), so I drew these little charmers and thought no more about it. A few days after the posters went up, I was confronted by the instructor for the course (whom I'd never met). It turned out he had "issues" as they say now and thought I was making fun of him with the mice!! Some people have no sense of humor.

6 comments:

  1. That is hilarious. Was he short and 'mousey' looking? If not, then he doesn't have a leg (or paw) to stand on. I love mice.

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  2. Both blogs are fun and interesting keep up the good work.

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  3. Brilliant.

    I think you just undid all the damage I suffered during my 7:30 AM Pascal course, senior high school year.

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  4. Glad to be of service!! If you're like me, the fact that it was at 7:30 a.m. would have been damaging enough!!

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  5. I love the mice! Oh, some people are just so touchy.

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