[OT] - April 21, 2010 = Centenial of Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemen's death
Tom Buskey
tom at buskey.name
Thu Apr 22 08:59:29 EDT 2010
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
> I have few personal heroes. No baseball players or movie stars take up
> that space with me.
>
> But I do take off my hat to two people:
>
> o Abraham Lincoln
> o Samuel Clemens
>
> Today marks the 100th anniversary of Samuel Clemens' death, and to not
> note it would be a crime.
>
> If he were alive today, I am sure he would use Linux.
>
>
After he became famous, he invested in a company making a typewriter that
did variable spacing. He ended up losing his money. I'm sure he would do
Linux today. And LaTeX :-P
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