Well - not leaping to assumptions - perhaps Samual Morse 'was' born today? (e.g. April 27, 2009 - Samual Morse was born to Manual and Emaly Morse)
It made me smile, anyway ... quirky humor seems to be an IT specialty ;-) I'm giving Tom the benefit of the doubt here... Scott On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Mike Walter <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom, > > > Samual Morse was born today. > Not precisely. It's Samuel, not Samual. > > And he wasn't born today. According to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code , Samuel Finley Breese Morse was > born April 27, 1791. > That's why my post said "Google's home page is celebrating Samuel Morse's > birthday today". Even that should have properly been "Google's home page > is celebrating the anniversary of ...", eh? > > The visual image of the Morse code for the Google logo, split over two > lines as is usually done on the Google home page, just didn't register for > me today. > I read the first line from left to right, then went to the second line. > It's Monday, after all! > > Enough nits picked for today. ;-) > > Mike Walter > Hewitt Associates > > > > "Tom Duerbusch" <[email protected]> > > Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <[email protected]> > 04/27/2009 04:03 PM > Please respond to > "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <[email protected]> > > > > To > [email protected] > cc > > Subject > Re: GGEOOL? > > > > > > > Samual Morse was born today. > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting > > >>> Neale Ferguson <[email protected]> 4/27/2009 11:05 AM >>> > On my screen the code is split over two lines so that the you get: > G G E > O O L > > > On 4/27/09 11:09 AM, "Mike Walter" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Google's home page is celebrating Samuel Morse's birthday today, by > > attempting to spell out GOOGLE in Morse code. > > At this time, the Google home page displays: > > > > --. --. . --- --- .-.. > > > > > > > The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may > contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from > disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if > this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert > the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any > attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of > this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly > prohibited. All messages sent to and from this e-mail address may be > monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations to ensure > compliance with our internal policies and to protect our business. E-mails > are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be > intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed > to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by e-mail. >
