[Cialug] Nakamoto: Double Spacer

Todd Walton tdwalton at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 10:17:15 CDT 2014


One suspects you've replied to the wrong email, Brian.  Unless you're
applying for old man status, in which case, yes.  You're hired.

--
Todd




On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Brian Broughton
<brian-broughton at mchsi.com>wrote:

> Have not heard from any one this week, this position still open? Am I still
> a viable candidate or should I believe the position has been filled?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf
> Of murraymckee at wellsfargo.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 12:10 PM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Nakamoto: Double Spacer
>
> I used an old Underwood manual typewriter when I was growing up.
>
> They were still using manual typewriters in high school when I took typing.
> There were two or three electrics available, but those were used by girls
> who expected to be secretaries for the rest of their lives.  I was only
> allowed to look at them.  It was one of the most valuable classes I took.
> And no that wasn't because there were 24 girls and me in the class.
>
> Murray R. McKee
>
> Operating Systems Analyst
> Mainframe/Midrange Services
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>
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf
> Of David Champion
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 12:06 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Nakamoto: Double Spacer
>
> Yes, I am. I'm and old guy too.
>
> I learned to type on a Royal manual typewriter in the early 80's and used
> to
> put two spaces after a period. I got over that, though.
>
> -dc
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:00 PM, <murraymckee at wellsfargo.com> wrote:
>
> > Are you call me OLD just because I put two spaces after a period?
> >
> > Murray R. McKee
> >
> > Operating Systems Analyst
> > Mainframe/Midrange Services
> >
> > Wells Fargo Compute Platform Services  |  800 Walnut Street  |  Des
> > Moines, IA 50309-3605 MAC N0001-037 Tel 515-557-6127 |  Cell
> > 515-343-6630 |  Fax 515-557-6046 | Text pager:
> > 5153436630 at vtext.com
> >
> > MurrayMcKee at WellsFargo.com
> >
> > TOG Recognition
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> > Behalf Of David Champion
> > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 11:52 AM
> > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> > Subject: Re: [Cialug] Nakamoto: Double Spacer
> >
> > Double spacing after a period is "an old guy thing". For old guys that
> > learned to type on a typewriter.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing
> >
> > -dc
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > So apparently they found Bitcoin's inventor.  The mysterious
> > > developer calling himself Satoshi Nakamoto is actually named... Satoshi
> Nakamoto.
> > >
> > > And he's an old guy.  You can tell because he double spaces after
> > periods?
> > > Is that an old guy thing?
> > >
> > > That's what it says in this article:
> > > http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html
> > >
> > > There's a very interesting (to me) part of the article about, uh, I
> > > guess you'd call it signature analysis or something.  They inferred
> > > facts about the guy from the way he wrote code and emails.  Reverse
> > > Polish notation, double spacing, messiness, etc.
> > >
> > > It's a good article.  I imagine Wired is eating their heart out on
> > > not getting this scoop.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Todd
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