Listen to this carefully, Norman. I am lying.

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.

She constructed a two-dimensional surface from a one-dimensional string! And she turned me into a newt!

The country just had a choice between competence and xenophobia and chose the latter.

You would make one of the nation's best senators.

Technology allowed the elimination of poverty, disease and maladies of aging. Unfortunately, an intentionally misinformed fraction of the population did not.

"Lowerwear" -- I was going to suggest creating this, given the precedents of underwear and outerwear, but looks like it's already in use.

Consider also Dr. Evermor's Sculpture Park.

First order of business for this meeting - who took our conference table?

If you find this in a Tnuctipun stasis box, don't activate the self-destruct setting.

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?

That's just sharking.

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.

Love the expressions and detail on this page and throughout the story.

These pages of old prompted me to re-read books 1 through 13 (so far). Thanks!

It's a good life.

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.

I have read your post.