I 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.
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
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...
Even Kenny?
It's not so much a line as transition zone.
Blatantly stolen from There's something about Mary.
My goto is "Every day is better than the next."
There is always more down
MTG is smart*, amoral, and self interested. Of course she'd be one of the first rats off the ship.
Every day is better than the next.
The players are actually in hell.
I would say the neolithic, if that falls under the umbrella. That was when we first got serious about this Human stuff.
Rock, Putin, Scissors.
71 here. (username checks out)
I 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.
"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.
That 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...