The Linux and Unix Menagerie: birthday

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Happy Birthday Ian! You're 6 Years Old Today :)

Hey There,

This post is dedicated to my son, Ian, who just turned 6 today (well, actually yesterday, but - as most regular readers know - I publish a day in advance. Makes life confusing sometimes ;)

The ASCII art I used as an inspiration for the scripts below was, again, grabbed from Joan Stark's ASCII Art Gallery, which is a great place to find quality ASCII art for almost any occasion.

The second bash script below, as usual, contains X's where spaces should be, so you don't get a bad pull from a copy/paste off of the web page.

Not much more to say except:

Click the greeting below to see it in IMAX ;)

Cheers,

This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

#!/bin/bash

#
# ibday.sh - Happy Birthday Ian!
#
# 2009 - Mike Golvach - eggi@comcast.net
#
# Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License
#

echo -ne "\n ~ ~\n * * * *\n * *\n ~ * * ~ * \n * ~ * * ~\n ) ( ) *\n * ~ (_) (_) (_) *\n * # ) ) # ( # *\n _ .-#(_)- -(_)# - - -(_)#-. _ \n * .' # # # # # # \`. ~ *\n : # # # : \n ~ :. # # # .: *\n * | \`-.__ __.-' | *\n | \`\`\`\`\`\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\`\`\`\`\` | *\n * | | ||\ |~)|~)\ / | \n | |~||~\|~ |~ | | ~\n ~ * | | * \n | |~)||~)~|~| ||~\|\ \ / | *\n * _.-| |~)||~\ | |~|| /|~\ | |-._ \n .' '. ~ ~ .' \`. *\n jgs : \`-.__ __.-' :\n \`. \`\`\`\`\`\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\`\`\`\`\` .'\n \`-.._ _..-'\n \`\`\`\`\`\"\"\"\"-----------\"\"\"\"\`\`\`\`\`\n\n # #\n # # ## ##### ##### # #\n # # # # # # # # # #\n ####### # # # # # # #\n # # ###### ##### ##### #\n # # # # # # #\n # # # # # # #\n \n ######\n # # # ##### ##### # # ##### ## # #\n # # # # # # # # # # # # # #\n ###### # # # # ###### # # # # #\n # # # ##### # # # # # ###### #\n # # # # # # # # # # # # #\n ###### # # # # # # ##### # # #\n \n ### # # #\n # # # ## #\n # # # # # #\n # # # # # #\n # ####### # # #\n # # # # ##\n ### # # # #\n \n # #\n ### ###\n # #\n \n # #\n # #\n # #\n ###\n"

#!/bin/bash

#
# xbday.sh - Happy Birthday Ian!
#
# 2009 - Mike Golvach - eggi@comcast.net
#
# Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License
#

echo -ne "\nXXXXXXXXXXX~XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX~\nXXXXX*XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX*XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX*XXXXXXX*\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX*XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX*\nXX~XXXXXXX*XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX*XXXXXXXXX~XXXX*XXXXXXXXXX\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXX*XXXXXXX~XXXXXXXX*XXXXXXXXXXXXXX*XXX~\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX)XXXXXXXXX(XXXXXXXXX)XXXXXXXXXXXXXX*\nXXXX*XXXX~XXXXXXX(_)XXXXXXX(_)XXXXXXX(_)XXXX*\nXXXXXXXXXXX*XXXXXX#X)XXXXX)X#XXXXXXX(X#XXXXXXXXXXX*\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_X.-#(_)-X-(_)#X-X-X-(_)#-.X_XXXX\nXX*XXXXXXXXX.'XXXX#X#XXXXX#X#XXXXXXX#X#XXXX\`.XXX~XXXXX*\nXXXXXXXXXXX:XXXXXXXX#XXXXX#XXXXXXXXX#XXXXXXXX:XXX\nXXXX~XXXXXX:.XXXXXXX#XXXXX#XXXXXXXXX#XXXXXXX.:XXXXXX*\nXXXXXXXX*XX|X\`-.__XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX__.-'X|X*\nXXXXXXXXXXX|XXXXXX\`\`\`\`\`\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\`\`\`\`\`XXXXXX|XXXXXXXXX*\nXXXXX*XXXXX|XXXXXXXXX|X||\X|~)|~)\X/XXXXXXXXX|XXXX\nXXXXXXXXXXX|XXXXXXXXX|~||~\|~X|~XX|XXXXXXXXXX|XXXXXXX~\nXXX~XXX*XXX|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX|X*X\nXXXXXXXXXXX|XXXXXX|~)||~)~|~|X||~\|\X\X/XXXXX|XXXXXXXXX*\nXXX*XXXX_.-|XXXXXX|~)||~\X|X|~||X/|~\X|XXXXXX|-._XX\nXXXXXX.'XXX'.XXXXXX~XXXXXXXXXXXX~XXXXXXXXXXX.'XXX\`.XX*\nXXjgsX:XXXXXX\`-.__XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX__.-'XXXXXX:\nXXXXXXX\`.XXXXXXXXX\`\`\`\`\`\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\`\`\`\`\`XXXXXXXXX.'\nXXXXXXXXX\`-.._XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_..-'\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\`\`\`\`\`\"\"\"\"-----------\"\"\"\"\`\`\`\`\`\n\nXXXXXXXXXXX#XXXXX#\nXXXXXXXXXXX#XXXXX#XXXX##XXXX#####XXX#####XXXX#XXX#\nXXXXXXXXXXX#XXXXX#XXX#XX#XXX#XXXX#XX#XXXX#XXXX#X#\nXXXXXXXXXXX#######XX#XXXX#XX#XXXX#XX#XXXX#XXXXX#\nXXXXXXXXXXX#XXXXX#XX######XX#####XXX#####XXXXXX#\nXXXXXXXXXXX#XXXXX#XX#XXXX#XX#XXXXXXX#XXXXXXXXXX#\nXXXXXXXXXXX#XXXXX#XX#XXXX#XX#XXXXXXX#XXXXXXXXXX#\nXXXXX\nXXX######\nXXX#XXXXX#XXXXX#XXXX#####XXXX#####XX#XXXX#XX#####XXXXX##XXXXX#XXX#\nXXX#XXXXX#XXXXX#XXXX#XXXX#XXXXX#XXXX#XXXX#XX#XXXX#XXX#XX#XXXXX#X#\nXXX######XXXXXX#XXXX#XXXX#XXXXX#XXXX######XX#XXXX#XX#XXXX#XXXXX#\nXXX#XXXXX#XXXXX#XXXX#####XXXXXX#XXXX#XXXX#XX#XXXX#XX######XXXXX#\nXXX#XXXXX#XXXXX#XXXX#XXX#XXXXXX#XXXX#XXXX#XX#XXXX#XX#XXXX#XXXXX#\nXXX######XXXXXX#XXXX#XXXX#XXXXX#XXXX#XXXX#XX#####XXX#XXXX#XXXXX#\nXXXXX\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX###XXXXXX#XXXX#XXXXX#\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX#XXXXXX#X#XXX##XXXX#\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX#XXXXX#XXX#XX#X#XXX#\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX#XXXX#XXXXX#X#XX#XX#\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX#XXXX#######X#XXX#X#\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX#XXXX#XXXXX#X#XXXX##\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX###XXX#XXXXX#X#XXXXX#\nXXXXX\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX#XXX#\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX###X###\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX#XXX#\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX#XXXXX#\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX#XXXXX#\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX#XXX#\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX###\n"

, Mike

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Friday, February 6, 2009

Happy Birthday To My Wife: Firefox Spotted In Outer Space

Hey there,

Today's post is dedicated to my wife, who shall remain ageless ;)

These photos are actually from about a year ago, when we were just starting this blog and the rest of my family ceased to exist for a little while :) You can check out the original post on blog.wired.com, but I've included the entire post here (minus the surrounding link-love logos) Her birthday was actually yesterday, if you put any stock in the date stamp on these posts ;)

Happy **th birthday, sweety :) (Her actual age has been removed to protect the innocent... who am I kidding. I'm guilty as Hell ;)

Firefox Logo Spied In Deep Space

By Charlie Sorrel

April 11, 2008 | 6:43:02 AMCategories: Elsewhere in the Tubes

One of these is a photograph taken by the Hubble space telescope on December 17, 2002, featuring the variable star V838 Monocerotis. The other is the same photograph overlaid with a familiar logo. Can you tell which is which?

Below is another photo of the same star, from the Wikipedia entry on V838 Monocerotis. If the above photo has been photoshopped to look more like the Firefox logo, the editing seems minimal: it's been rotated relative to the photo below, and some of the gas cloud may have been edited out around the "tail" of the fox.

If you've got a link to the original Hubble photo used above, let us know in the comments so we can compare. UPDATE: An eagle-eyed commenter, Wevah, spotted the original version of the Firefox-like nova photo on Wikipedia. It looks like the only modification was to rotate the image. It must be a sign from the stars!

V838_monocerotis