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HairyOldCoot
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Cake day: June 11th, 2023
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2·8 months agoI would say once they hit the ground they are meteorites. But while they are falling they are meteors. Based solely on my own assumptions. Not a hill I care to defend.
Meteors. I stole that from “and the earth will shake” (Robert Anton Wilson). There was a description of The Royal College of Astronomy, or somesuch, harrumphing about such a ridiculous, and ignorant superstition.
The idea that rocks sometimes fall from the sky.
1·8 months ago“Act like a dumb shit and they will treat you as an equal”. –J. R. Bob Dobbs
I’m a retired programmer. A recent attempt at writing a Python script showed me that I have forgotten a LOT of the syntactic details. With that in mind, these are the langs that I have used professionally. “Know” might be an exaggeration at this point. HP basic Fortran C C++ C# Java Perl Python HTML (if that counts) Awk/sed
Wonderful series, but as much as I love King’s work, the man just does not know how to end a story.
Standing in line in the basement of the CS building at UofM to get access to a card punch machine and type up my Fortran 4 program.
2·1 year agoThat was an episode of Sliders.
Ha! Just remembered the name of the novel. Hyperion by Dan Simmons. The Rabies name was Sol Weintraub, for what that’s worth. OK, now I can think about something else…
My understanding of the story (in the novel, which I still can’t remember the name) was that in knuckling under to the command to murder his own child, Abraham failed the test.
There is a novel, and damned if I can remember the title, where a rabi proposes that god commanding Abraham to kill his son was a test, which he (Abraham) failed.
Yep, Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
We don’t need no stinking badges!
(Just in case: not hate, just a possibly obscure reference)
18·2 years agoTook me a few seasons to figure out that every season was the same. “I think we’ve found a place to settle down, but there might be a problem…”.
I will be very surprised if the cheeto spends a single day in jail.
More and more every day.
Maybe ‘biblical literalist’ might be a better term.
Rock, Putin, Scissors.