Seeing Hooker was never going to take the offensive, Lee pulled two more Divisions, those of South Carolinian RH Anderson and Georgian Lafayette McLaws from in front of Hooker and led them himself against Sedgwick in conjunction with Jubal Early. It was to be a day of frustration for Lee, as he could not prod McLaws forward and get the 3 division attack going. Sedgwick withdrew over Banks’ Ford when he lost Marye’s Heights to Early.(Early had a great battle.)
This was the cue for Hooker to call the campaign over and he withdrew over US Ford on the 5th. Casualties were high for the four day battle: 13000 for Lee and 17000 for Hooker. Lee’s proportion was too high, considering he only had 60000 to start with.
Lee and the South had bettered an army twice the size of their own and given Virginia breathing space. Lee’s next move, as it had been in 62, after a victory, was to move North.
Gettysburg awaited.
Jackson would never again be Lee’s “right arm”’ as he passed away on the 10th from complications from his amputation.
His last words were: let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees.
A Valentine's poem for nerds:
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**A Valentine’s poem for nerds:
Roses are 255,0,0
Violets are 0,255,0
I don’t have a Valentine
I don’t know why. :(**_Sad thing is, I had to point out the error when I read this….
Technically, Violet is (238,130,238). (0,255,0) is lime green. Still pretty funny to a nerd like me._
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What does it mean Malachi?
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_Sad thing is, I had to point out the error when I read this….
Technically, Violet is (238,130,238). (0,255,0) is lime green. Still pretty funny to a nerd like me._
Congrats…. it’s a sign of true nerdiness to find an error in a poem for nerds. :wink:
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@wittmann:
What does it mean Malachi?
255,0,0 is an a color designation in computer code.
For example, if you are making a website, you can manually code HTML to pick from the color pallet GRID, using the following numbers 0-255,0-255,0-255 That covers everything from Red to Blue, to black, to white, and everything in between.
More specifically they call it the RGB color system if I’m not mistaken.
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Thanks Garg.
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Garg is correct. Since it is RGB, the first number corresponds to Red, second number to Green and third to Blue.
A value of 0, 0, 0 means zero brightness for Red, Green and Blue. 255, 255, 255 is white because that is what you get when you mix red. blue and green light.
Violets are 0,255,0 in RGB means zero Red and Blue and full power to Green and NOT violet hence an error only a geek would spot!
The range of 0 to 255 is 256 combinations which is what 8 bits gives you, 2 to the power 8. Three 8 bit values gives you 16 million colours possibilities.
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Violets are 0,255,0 in RGB means zero Red and Blue and full power to Green and NOT violet hence an error only a geek would spot!
We need to be careful about terminology here. The poem was for all nerds, not just for geeks. The following well-known diagram:
neatly categorizes them.
I agree that it may take an actual geek to spot and report the error. A dork might lack the intelligence. However, I suppose a dweeb could also find the error, but may lack the drive to post it to a forum.
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Now that is a venn diagram I can appreciate! It appears inn my haste my terminology was a bit mixed up.
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