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This is downtown Cleveland, Ohio. I live in a western suburb of the city about one mile south of Lake Erie. I'm married and have four great kids. I like swimming, ASCII art, and crafts. I have a graduate degree in Exercise Physiology but spend most of my time driving my children from activity to activity. I officiate swimming/diving and spend a lot of time in the swimming pool. .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:. |
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oldies, R&R, musicals, MoTown, hip-hop, reggae, big band learning new things on the computer, garage sales, bingo, miniature golf, road rallyes, eating, sleeping, and family time with our four kids- (ages 13, 11, 10, and 8) "Help me from losing my mind!" |
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why am I called "Spunk"?
I'm one of those people who tend to burn candles at both ends. I'm always doing something... hence, my roadrunner .sig: "...always on the go" Others have said that I'm "spunky". So in another way, the name has stuck. Before I go much further... Yes, I know of the connotation that the word "spunk" has in the UK- It is purely coincidental. I do not use the name with that meaning. .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:. |
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information regarding the word "spunk". Apparently, the spunk is a little gnome-like creature... The translation from Flemish to German to English is as follows: #######################################
>>> SPUNK is dol
op de natuur,
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How
did I get hooked on ASCII Art?
I then started collecting as much of the ASCII art as I could. I began wandering through the internet and realized that there was way too much to save. I would forget my idea of having a huge collection... I know where to find the pictures if I want something. Being a "crafty" type person, I decided that I would try to make the ASCII pictures myself. I've always like to doodle on paper, so I figured it couldn't be that much different. My first project was to make a signature for me to use. I started diddling around with the keyboard in May/June of 1996 by doing lettering. Someone then told me about "FIGLET". For those of you who don't know, FIGLET is a computer program that creates fancy lettering from text. Hearing about figlet took the thrill away from making the fonts- I could spend an hour creating an alphabet by hand and someone else could just press a computer key and have the letters pop up "pre-made". [FIGLET LINK] And so I went on to the pictures... I know that there are programs available to create ASCII art -- (I don't know that much aboutthem...) -- but the programs usually create solid-type ASCII art. Even then, the pictures still are pretty rough and need touch-ups to make them asthetically correct. I have collected some conversion software information from <alt.ascii-art> and offer them to you-- no guarantees-- [CONVERSION LINK] I make the line-style ASCII pictures and I don't believe that there are programs for this style. Basically I sit down at the keyboard and start typing. ['HOW I DO IT'/TUTORIALS LINK] OK-- so I can't consider myself a "newbie" at ASCII art any more. The honeymoon is over! I've been making the pics since 1996. Some people are anticipating my "burn-out"-- but I continue to make the ASCII art pictures and I still look forward to improving. I'd like to be able to look at each of my creations and say "wow!"-- there are some that I like a lot and there are some that I consider "ok". Most of the crummy ones have met their demise at the hands of the delete button. Despite this, I've included some of my early works in this gallery so you can see how my artwork has evolved. Perhaps I may inspire other budding ascii artists... I am just amazed at all ASCII artwork. There are a limited number of characters available on the keyboard and they are all fixed. Considering this fact, it is truly remarkable that there are so many different ASCII art pictures. I don't know how
long ASCII art has been around. I've been told that it dates back at least
to the 1960s when computers consisted only of large main frames. There
were no PCs and no monitors. Transmissions were done through terminals
that were very much like electric typewriters. Games and pictures were
done in ASCII. (Remember the orignial "Zork"?) Some of the pictures passed
around then are still being passed around today.
For me, the ASCII art is still pretty new ... although I remember as a kid, my father would take me to work with him on an occasional Saturday. While there, I would play on the secretary's typewriter and make pictures on a sheet of paper using commas and lines-- my "first" ASCII drawings!. (I would also link all of her paper clips together-- shhh, don't tell my dad!). I had a lot of fun those weekend mornings... I guess you could say that I've been making text art -- even before computers! :) But times have changed!
Gone are the typewriters, papers, and carbon copies. I doodle as I did
as a child... but now I don't need a new sheet of paper or white-out when
I make a mistake. Sigh... and my children have already connected my paper
clips together! :( But that's OK, I don't need them! :) I just have to
fight the kids for computer time!
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