DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)

I'm a philomath (many interests; call it polymath-wanna-be) professional computer programmer in Silicon Valley.
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Ars longa, vita brevis.

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2024-08-15 03:43:54

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Heck, buildings are nothing; famed science fiction author James Blish put entire cities into space with "spindizzies".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight

2024-08-04 21:08:28

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Nice! And Gauss is awesome. 🙂

2024-06-24 04:46:43

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True fact: octopusses of space are still the number one space menace that astronauts face today.
They're usually much bigger than pictured; that one's a mild mannered hatchling.
I hear they've brought back that leather flying headgear, too.

2024-06-23 03:13:04

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Murray Leinster -- now that's a name you don't see anymore.

2024-06-15 03:08:20

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If "Minions of the Tiger" actually includes kitty kitty then we are all minions.

2024-06-14 15:00:10

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I just reread a bunch of Simak books a few months ago.
As a teenager my favorites were "Time is the Smplest Thing", "The Goblin Reservation", and "The Werewolf Principle".

2024-06-13 03:36:01

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"In “Aesop” (Astounding Dec. 1947) a dog civilization has come into being, having all but forgotten humans, thinking of them generically as “websters” in lower case. They live by their Canons, which prohibit any destruction of life; animals don’t eat each other, they eat from feeding stations manned by mutant humans or robots. Jenkins, the head robot, is now 7000 years old. The dogs and robots decide the past doesn’t exist; each moment is a new world in a series of parallel realities. But they now face a world of overpopulation, since the animals don’t eat each other. The solution is the parallel worlds the mutants have accessed."
https://www.blackgate.com/2020/03/19/stories-the-dogs-tell-clifford-d-simaks-city/
1940s science fiction magazine covers were required by custom to show a scary robot or alien or at least very scared human, but apparently the robot is simply a servant of the sapient dogs.
I dunno about the bow, perhaps it's as @npub17kj…f3dc suggests.
Simak's "City" collects stories about the dog civilization and/or told by the dogs. Those dog stories serve the same function for them that Aesop's fables did for the ancient greeks, and the ancient civilization(s) of India that many of the stories came from.

2024-06-06 04:07:24

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Wow, that's quite the all-star list of authors!
And 1965 was very early for Mac Apps.