Suggestions for computing luminaries as face cards in a deck of cards?
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I was thinking about doing a hobby project related to poker. I don't need graphics for the suits as those are available as HTML entities. But for the face cards I was thinking public domain pictures of people might be interesting. I would like a theme for each suit and try to come up with two males and a female to represent the face cards. For example if clubs were the business leaders in computing I might have Bill Gates, Carly Fiorina and Steve Jobs as King, Queen and Jack. If hearts were computing history I might have Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing. If diamonds were hardware, Gordon Moore, Dennis Hayes. People may not know the name Dennis Hayes immediately, but if I said ATH0, plenty of geeks would say "Oh that Hayes". So what are your suggestions for suit themes and the people to go with them?
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I was thinking about doing a hobby project related to poker. I don't need graphics for the suits as those are available as HTML entities. But for the face cards I was thinking public domain pictures of people might be interesting. I would like a theme for each suit and try to come up with two males and a female to represent the face cards. For example if clubs were the business leaders in computing I might have Bill Gates, Carly Fiorina and Steve Jobs as King, Queen and Jack. If hearts were computing history I might have Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing. If diamonds were hardware, Gordon Moore, Dennis Hayes. People may not know the name Dennis Hayes immediately, but if I said ATH0, plenty of geeks would say "Oh that Hayes". So what are your suggestions for suit themes and the people to go with them?
You didn't list spades -- for computer tools perhaps. Don't forget Grace Hopper, maybe put her with Dennis Ritchie -- computer linguists -- as for the third, there are several notables -- C.A.R. Hoare comes to mind. P.S. Did you include Alan Turing as a queen? :-D
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I was thinking about doing a hobby project related to poker. I don't need graphics for the suits as those are available as HTML entities. But for the face cards I was thinking public domain pictures of people might be interesting. I would like a theme for each suit and try to come up with two males and a female to represent the face cards. For example if clubs were the business leaders in computing I might have Bill Gates, Carly Fiorina and Steve Jobs as King, Queen and Jack. If hearts were computing history I might have Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing. If diamonds were hardware, Gordon Moore, Dennis Hayes. People may not know the name Dennis Hayes immediately, but if I said ATH0, plenty of geeks would say "Oh that Hayes". So what are your suggestions for suit themes and the people to go with them?
I am sure there are Unicode characters that will work :)
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You didn't list spades -- for computer tools perhaps. Don't forget Grace Hopper, maybe put her with Dennis Ritchie -- computer linguists -- as for the third, there are several notables -- C.A.R. Hoare comes to mind. P.S. Did you include Alan Turing as a queen? :-D
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Did you include Alan Turing as a queen
You bitch.
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I am sure there are Unicode characters that will work :)
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F0A0.pdf[^] Many years ago I purchased an Adobe typeface collection that has such things. But not with computer notables as the face cards.