Ribbons of the paper tape piled up at Joe's feet like a nest of intertwined vipers.
They are perforated, to resemble the punched paper tape Tutte was so familiar with, and when viewed from one particular direction reveal an image of Tutte's head and shoulders.
Before the introduction of magnetic tape, digital storage for early computers used punched cards, paper tape as well as more exotic technologies such as mercury delay lines and the phosphors on cathode ray tubes.
Joe ran the paper ticker tape across his desk, squinting at it continuously until the market closed.
Taking a second sheet of paper and a roll of Scotch tape, he taped his scene together, but broken: a Cubist vision of Highway 49.
These included aluminum foil, paper, silicone, wax, tape, casting compounds and many other techniques that were incredibly novel and advanced at the time of their development.
Although the faded blue paper is torn at the edges, with pieces of Scotch tape scarring the back, the intricate white ink designs vividly evoke the lost stadium.
"In our country, where there's so much red tape, nobody would even lift a finger without me signing a paper first, even if they have different opinions about who's in charge, " Medvedev told CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" in an exclusive interview airing Sunday.
Russia has, on paper, one of the most onerous banking regulatory regimes in the world, and the red tape is spooled out with gusto for foreign banks.
One of the most important reforms of the past half-decade was brought in by Franco Bassanini, minister for public administration (ie, red tape) in the outgone government, who drastically reduced the number of pieces of paper needed to get a job or start up a firm.
Tory peer Lord Bruce-Lockhart, who chairs the Local Government Association, said the White Paper was "encouraging" and took "significant steps on local leadership, deregulation and cutting red tape".
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