From starfyr@patriot.net Wed Dec 12 14:17:43 2001 Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 14:41:38 -0500 (EST) From: J. A. Holmes To: Sean Eustis Cc: Diane J Donaldson , Dave Choat , simonator@erols.com, Edward Stanford , starfyr@patriot.net Subject: Re: Late Tonight :-( On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Sean Eustis wrote: > Won't be there until nearly 8pm tonight. Really sorry about this y'all, if > there's no food left when I get there I'll understand. I regret to announce that Jeffrey is also late as of today. When morning came he just didn't wake up. "I didn't plan on starring in the worlds shortest blues song", he was heard wailing, "but there it was, the sun came up and 'I didn't wake up this morning.'" When asked how it happened "I blame it on Simon really", his ghost accused. "You see there I was minding my own business, literally, ya know, I was cleaning up my disk drives, trying to find all the various disk versions of my resume so I could make yet another one ( I found 20 so far ) and then it happened." "I noticed a icon, and I said to myself, I didn't know I installed CivII on this machine... gee that must have been before I installed the 21" monitor. I wonder how it looks...". "I wouldn't have noticed, if Simon hadn't been talking about playing the new one." He rattled some chains in anguish, "Anyway from that point on it's the familiar sad story." But then he brightened, "On the other hand I'm kicking ass, most the other nations just barely have gunpowder & I'm building the starship. When I finally left the house to face the diabolical punishement in store for me today I had been at peace with everyone in the game, the entire time until Ghandi took one of my cities, when I pulled troops out of those nearby to buffer against his build-up during the senate-forced cease fire, my city 'accidentally' went into disorder causing my goverment to collapse into anarchy - the turn I got the Manhatten Project AND the Appollo mission. I can see all of his lovely not so far away cities now & since pretty much all of my cities have manufacturing plants, and I have several that were turning out space ship component every turn, I'm gonna nuke his passive-aggressive ass." His untimely demise won't interfere too much with the Friday night gaming schedule, if the action is slow he might drift off, and his performance on the puzzle-solving phases might be a little degraded. As to the torments of those damned to work with a 40+ body and no sleep, "It's not really a liabiity," he noted, "in this job I'm pretty much a zombie anyway, well apart from the brain eating bits." ____________________________________________________________________ Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -- Kernighan