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Listen to this carefully, Norman. I am lying.
August 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
There's a great short story "Mimic" by Donald A. Wollheim in 1942 that explores a similar idea, except the mimic looks like a man in a black cloak.
May 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
She constructed a two-dimensional surface from a one-dimensional string! And she turned me into a newt!
April 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The country just had a choice between competence and xenophobia and chose the latter.

You would make one of the nation's best senators.
March 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Technology allowed the elimination of poverty, disease and maladies of aging. Unfortunately, an intentionally misinformed fraction of the population did not.
February 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"Lowerwear" -- I was going to suggest creating this, given the precedents of underwear and outerwear, but looks like it's already in use.
February 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Consider also Dr. Evermor's Sculpture Park.
February 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
First order of business for this meeting - who took our conference table?
February 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If you find this in a Tnuctipun stasis box, don't activate the self-destruct setting.
February 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Love the dialogue and the concept.

>Dr. Dixon noted that while the change occurred when the moon was not directly visible to observers on Earth

When is the moon not directly visible from somewhere on the spherical Earth?
January 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
That's just sharking.
December 20, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Oversimplification: expressing the work of software engineers as simply "programming" ignores most of our work.

Yet Another High-Level Language: communicating precise requirements to an AI can be seen as just another step in the evolution of programming languages.
December 18, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Love the expressions and detail on this page and throughout the story.
December 12, 2024 at 5:34 PM
These pages of old prompted me to re-read books 1 through 13 (so far). Thanks!
December 2, 2024 at 8:20 PM
It's a good life.
December 1, 2024 at 11:57 PM
I didn't realize the story arc that was beginning from this page the first time I read it. Thank you for this wondrous gift.
November 27, 2024 at 2:58 PM
I have read your post.
November 26, 2024 at 8:32 PM