{"id":16952,"date":"2021-12-11T17:17:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T22:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=16952"},"modified":"2021-12-11T17:17:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T22:17:17","slug":"a-new-old-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/11\/a-new-old-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"A new old calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cyrb2022-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"simulated dot-matrix printer on ruled paper layout of an ASCII-art Snoopy in WW1 Air Ace regalia yelling &quot;Curse you Red Baron!&quot; at his imaginary nemesis, and a 2022 calendar laid out on the facing page\" class=\"wp-image-16953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cyrb2022-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cyrb2022-320x207.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cyrb2022-160x104.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cyrb2022-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cyrb2022-1536x994.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cyrb2022-2048x1325.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cyrb2022-1568x1015.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>not seen the likes of this since &#8217;78, I&#8217;ll be bound<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s unlikely anyone wanted a faux-lineprinter ASCII art calendar for 2022, but you&#8217;re getting one anyway. You can print this yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file aligncenter\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/curse_you_red_baron-2022_calendar.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Embed of curse_you_red_baron-2022_calendar.pdf..\"><\/object><a href=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/curse_you_red_baron-2022_calendar.pdf\">curse_you_red_baron-2022_calendar.pdf<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/curse_you_red_baron-2022_calendar.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to make your own, here&#8217;s a script: <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/scruss\/4366b12da8cf9f294e7fc0a98d226b13\">snoopycal.sh<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/snoopycal_sh-1.zip\">snoopycal_sh.zip<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/snoopycal_sh-1.zip\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Credits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Original &#8220;WW1 Fighter Pilot&#8221; Snoopy ASCII art from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdp8online.com\/pdp8cgi\/os8_html\/SNOOPY.BA?act=file;fn=images\/os8\/games.tu56;blk=247,10,0;to=auto\">SNOOPY.BA<\/a>&#8221; for the DEC PDP-8, written by Mr Kay R. Fisher of DEC some time before July 1973. It&#8217;s referred to in the first printing of the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digibarn.com\/collections\/books\/basicgames\/#first\">101 Basic Computer Games<\/a>&#8221; book, which was published in 1973.<\/li><li>ncal, banner: their respective authors<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/g\/comp.lang.postscript\/c\/Xne2G4pxbpM\/m\/c1btCIhZc2IJ\">pstext an ascii to PS filter<\/a> by Dan Judd, usenet comp.lang.postscript, December 1989. I had to really mess around with the output of this program to use a custom font and add the music ruling, but it produces cleaner PostScript than the giant messes that enscript and a2ps have become<\/li><li>Font: <a href=\"https:\/\/fontlibrary.org\/en\/font\/mnicmp\">mnicmp<\/a>, by me.  Based on the DecWriter II font.<\/li><li>iffy scripting, scribbly lines: also me.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s unlikely anyone wanted a faux-lineprinter ASCII art calendar for 2022, but you&#8217;re getting one anyway. You can print this yourself: If you want to make your own, here&#8217;s a script: snoopycal.sh Credits: Original &#8220;WW1 Fighter Pilot&#8221; Snoopy ASCII art from &#8220;SNOOPY.BA&#8221; for the DEC PDP-8, written by Mr Kay R. 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