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000029_icon-group-sender _Thu Feb 11 09:03:37 1999.msg
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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id JAA06690
for icon-group-addresses; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:00:30 -0700 (MST)
Message-Id: <199902111600.JAA06690@baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU>
To: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 04:54:49 GMT
From: eodell@pobox.com (Eric O'Dell)
Subject: Re: BART schedule, Tufte and Icon
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Status: RO
On 10 Feb 1999 10:33:02 -0500, Shamim Mohamed <spm@drones.com> wrote:
>I wrote a little Icon program to draw Bart (San Francisco area metro
>railway) schedules as first drawn by E. J. Marey and popularised by
>E. R. Tufte.
I feel much less geeky now knowing that I'm not the only person in the
world who thinks E. R. Tufte is really cool. ;-)
-E.
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