Quality Prting

I took this one about 8 years ago. Anil suggested that I photograph it.

Gladding, McBean

I took this photo is almost 3 years ago. It's still one of my favorites.

link (feeling lucky)

Posted by tplambeck at 06:39 PM

ewolf writes on the NPL list

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In the February 17th, 2006 issue of "Entertainment Weekly", a blurb on p. 22 about director Werner Herzog contains the sentence:

Then on Jan. 26, Her[zog happened by Joaquin Phoenix's car wreck and pulled the actor from the v]ehicle.

The letters between the brackets represent a 61-letter pangrammatic window - a consecutive block which contains all letters of the alphabet...

...This breaks the current known record of 62 letters, discovered by Dan Tilque in an online music review and reported in a 2004 Word Ways article. In 2002, Mike Keith had reported a 64-letter window, breaking by 1 the long-time record of 65, discovered in 1907 by A. Cyril Pearson in Sarah Grand's 1897 "The Beth Book". This record stood for a supra-Maris-like 95 years until Keith's discovery. Computer search tools of ever-larger bodies of text will surely allow the record to be broken again, though the current example I found purely by chance (my brain usually scans subconsciously whenever I see a promising start like "Joaquin Phoenix").
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