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Reader Feedback: All hopped
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From the editor: The Goat and the Teledactyl
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by Lowell Thing,
Editor
Schrodinger’s
cat was mad as a Red
Hat. "I’m tired of being relegated to the S’s", said the
cat, as it attempted once again to slide over to C.
“We know how you
feel,” said the goat
and the teledactyl
somewhat synchronously, “it just makes you want to bloviate.
I think it’s time we got the strawman,
the sniglet,
and the wild
card character together to lob a logic
bomb over into the editorial skunkworks.”
Meanwhile, over at the Editors’ desks, where they could
never remember what any of these words meant, new terms were
creeping in under the door and at least some of them were
being captured and put in their alphabetical places. "Perigee
has leaked out of my brain again," said Editor Lowell, who
sometimes didn’t remember his OH
from his ohnosecond.
"I think it has something to do with entanglement,
but I could be barking up the wrong binary
tree.” He made a note on his Big
Chief tablet to try to remember something.
(Also) meanwhile, Editor Margaret, working on a new crossword
puzzle had only just rediscovered a wandering foo.
"I found it under the G’s,” she said. "Thank Grace
Hopper, it’s still there. Hmmm (she mused)… I wonder what
will happen if I cross a foo
with an ooblick?"
And sure enough, she did, and then, adding hole
and gram,
made the crossword into a hologram.
By afternoon, the
logic
bomb had dissipated into a pleasant pink
noise and the skunkworks
was calm again. A valued reader was browsing through Schrodinger’s
cat, and it (the cat) was once more content. The goat
and the teledactyl
were playing a quiet game of ping-Pong,
and the penguin
was playing JavaBeans
in the sandbox.
Everyone yawned
and then at 5 o’clock, the editors roared away in their state
machine (disdaining the old backside
bus) and went home (which wasn't very far because they
worked at home), leaving almost 4,000 definitions in their
various categories so that no one would ever have to just
remember them.
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Reader Feedback: All hopped up about
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by Margaret Rouse, Associate
Editor
In
our last newsletter, we reminded you to mark December
9th on your calendar as the first-ever International
Grace Hopper Day -- a day dedicated to creative
problem-solvers everywhere who hate to be told, "Because
we've always done it that way."
It turns out
that some of our readers actually had the
pleasure of meeting Admiral Grace Hopper.
James
H. wrote, "Thanks for the article on Grace Hopper and
the dedication of December 9 to her memory. She was
quite a lady. I had the honor of meeting her and
receiving one of her famous nanoseconds while she was
still Captain Hopper. Your article brought back some
very fond memories. We had her motto (It's easier to get
forgiveness than permission) displayed prominently in
our office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. One
quibble though - you referred to her smoking Lucky
Strike cigarettes. I recall her smoking Camels, which
are particularly harsh and probably contributed to the
lung condition she suffered during the last 20 years of
her life."
Bud G. also met Amazing Grace. "In
1969-1970, I was a grad student in the Geography
Department, using the IBM 360. It so happened that Grace
Hopper gave a lecture/seminar and three of us "Nerd
geographers" attended.(In those days one could always
tell a "nerd," he or she was the one walking around with
a 18"x10"x4" box secured with about 100 large
rubberbands.) After the lecture there was a reception
for her at the Computer Science Chair's house; we
weren't invited, we just showed up and walked in. We met
her and passed about 20 minutes talking with her about
what we were doing with our mapping programs. She was
delightful to us and gave us several ideas for our code.
I've been a fan ever since."
A few people wrote
to say how they were going to celebrate the Grace Hopper
day: Dian's MSN chat room, About Computing, will be
declaring December "Admiral Grace Hopper Month".
ShadowFox is going to send a letter to the editor of the
Big City paper about Grace Hopper Day and then go
through the CIS classrooms ringing a bell and crying
"Grace Hopper Day!" MasterMech1 thinks all IT people
should take the day off and let everyone else solve
their own problems.
Some readers urged us to
expand our horizons:
Gervas thought our idea for
a Grace Hopper day was excellent, but suggested we also
commemorate Charles Babbage and Alan Turing.
ThePetsServant agreed. "I think we should at least
equally honor Turing, who was so sadly persecuted, and
Babbage, at whom so many laughed despite his great
contributions to several fields."
We'd like to
thank all of you who wrote to say you'll be joining us
on December 9th to celebrate Grace Hopper Day. Your
enthusiasm has inspired us to write a new
quiz.
Take the quiz…
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci861268,00.html
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