User talk:Jpgordon

Hi @Jpgordon, I hope you are doing well. I wanted to ask you a question regarding your signature. On my computer the text next to your username appears as boxes (Unicode's way of saying it doesn't know what the character is). Did you intend it to appear this way? If you reply here, please ping me. Thanks, thetechie@enwiki:~$ she/they | talk | contributions 18:44, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I see a bass clef, start repeat sign, whole rest, repeat sign. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:47, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

Not a whole rest, a fermata in isolation, which is pretty meaningless (other than my thought of "play bass as long as I want.") TheTechie: Why do I need to ping you? Doesn't "reply" do that automatically? Anyway, as SFR says here, bass clef, start repeat, (fermata), repeat. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 18:58, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

TheTechie: Why do I need to ping you? Doesn't "reply" do that automatically?

Nope, not unless, I manually hit "subscribe". I might have changed something on accident, but I most of the time forget to click that. thetechie@enwiki:~$ she/they | talk | contributions 19:00, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

Check your options on Preferences/Editing/Discussion pages to make some of that more automatic. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 19:05, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

I should have zoomed in further. Although, hold a bass, rest, repeat forever would be a great audition for The White Stripes. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:04, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

I see a bass clef, start repeat sign, whole rest, repeat sign.

Hm. Must mean Chrome OS's Unicode support is quite lacklustre then. I can't recall if it appears on my Linux device. Ah well, thank you for explaining what the character is. thetechie@enwiki:~$ she/they | talk | contributions 19:01, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

Yep, it displays on my Linux machine. thetechie@enwiki:~$ she/they | talk 22:50, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

If you could fix these errors yourself, in the manner that you prefer, that would be great. Let me know if you need any guidance. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:15, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 00:56, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

A while back I transcribed a lot of tabular data that defined one mapping for Munsell color values into XYZ, over on Wikisource. (It was published in a Journal whose copyright was not seemingly renewed.)

You commented in a Reference Desk thread, that you had previously had experience in doing trilinear interpolation. Would you be interested in implementing a Lua module for converting Munsell type values, to CIE 1931 (XYZ) based on the dataset(s) in Wikisource?.

Having an on wiki Module:ColorTranslate would be useful in any event :). ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 22:10, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Wow. I did have that experience, but it was 45 years ago; it was written in 8086 assembler, and whatever of it stuck in my brain then has long since dribbled away. I seem to recall it was converted from Fortran. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 22:23, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the fast response, Any ideas as to who on wikipedia might be worth asking? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 22:31, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, no idea! --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 22:41, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

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