Fwd: Fortran Man & more questions
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From: Lilly Irani
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:04:19 -0700
Subject: Fortran Man & more questions
To: Phyllis Cole & Lee Yamada
Cc: Lilly Irani
Phyllis -
I hope you had a great trip up to Mount Tamalpais. As promised, I have
a few follow up questions after spending more time with People's
Computing yesterday.
1) Do you remember the comic strip Fortran Man? I've attached a pdf
showing just a snippet of it to jog your memory. It seems that in the
middle of its multi-issue tenure, a sole female character named parity
(probably a computer reference to parity checks, but also quote ironic
given the gender and "gender parity"). Do you remember much about the
story of Parity's inclusion? She doesn't seem to advance the plot of
the comics at all in the issues I've read.
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