Paul Graham's Asterisk Man

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Post by kirubakaran » Wed, Apr 16, 2008, 9:17 PM UTC

Paul Graham's Asterisk Man
paulgraham.com

Re: Paul Graham's Asterisk Man

#2

Post by e1ven » Wed, Apr 16, 2008, 10:30 PM UTC

Does this image have an Origin story?

It seems far too Random to exist on it's own.. I had thought it might be related to Asterisk, the Open Source PBX software, but the name on the file says 1995..

"Your search - link:www.paulgraham.com/asterisk.html - did not match any documents."

Re: Paul Graham's Asterisk Man

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Post by quellhorst » Wed, Apr 16, 2008, 10:58 PM UTC

Maybe this image is for a default user avatar when none exists already?

Re: Paul Graham's Asterisk Man

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Post by dzohrob » Wed, Apr 16, 2008, 11:06 PM UTC

is this a not-so-sly reference to Vonnegut?

http://vonnegutsasshole.blogspot.com/2007/04/authors-and-the...

Re: Paul Graham's Asterisk Man

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Post by e1ven » Wed, Apr 16, 2008, 11:13 PM UTC

e1ven wrote: post #2

Does this image have an Origin story? It seems far too Random to exist on it's own.. I had thought it might be related to Asterisk , the Open Source PBX software, but the name on the file says 1995.. "Your search - link:www.paulgraham.com/asterisk.html - did not match any documents."

"Feel free to use this image however you like. It would be nice if you mentioned it was drawn by me, but you don't have to if that would be graphically inconvenient."

I have to admit that it would be amusing to use that quote as permission to launch a new website, using *Man as it's logo.. The perpetrator could launch with its new site with cleverly adjusted fonts-

New Loobot, (with logo by) PAUL GRAHAM!

Re: Paul Graham's Asterisk Man

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Post by Erf » Thu, Apr 17, 2008, 12:03 AM UTC

My best interpretation as to the point of this image, and/or this submission, is to test whether any pg-created content will automatically rise to the top of Hacker News regardless of its actual merits.

Re: Paul Graham's Asterisk Man

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Post by ubudesign » Thu, Apr 17, 2008, 12:22 AM UTC

pg writes nice essays. what was my point? oh yes, pg writes nice essays :)

Re: Paul Graham's Asterisk Man

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Post by ubudesign » Thu, Apr 17, 2008, 12:23 AM UTC

('*')

Re: Paul Graham's Asterisk Man

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Post by lvecsey » Thu, Apr 17, 2008, 12:36 AM UTC

e1ven wrote: post #2

Does this image have an Origin story? It seems far too Random to exist on it's own.. I had thought it might be related to Asterisk , the Open Source PBX software, but the name on the file says 1995.. "Your search - link:www.paulgraham.com/asterisk.html - did not match any documents."

I thought of the free software based Asterisk PBX too. Maybe a modern interpretation is that the face represents someone making a poor comment as they disagree with someone, basically spewing dial tone!

Re: Paul Graham's Asterisk Man

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Post by redorb » Thu, Apr 17, 2008, 12:59 AM UTC

probably when he listened to one too many pitches (that he didn't ask for)