Last week I told you a bit about the problems I had with
the old Boolean, and how I eventually developed a software
that allowed it to compose the Blue Box articles that you
have all come to know and love. However, as the poet said,
"Great heights by great men gained and kept, were not
obtained in single flight." Neither, I must admit,
did my software spring full grown and fully armed, like
Minerva from the brow of Zeus. No indeed, there were lots
and lots of growing pains.
Just to illustrate the sort of maddening difficulties
I had with the earlier versions of my Blue Box composition
software , I have decided to append a number of the more
amazing gaffs that this stupid program created before I
finally got it whipped into shape.
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It's great fun but there's no obvious down side, and if
God makes the blueberry pie, then Penny the apple pie.
"Good gracious me" said Mr. Ennis, and he does
good fries and burgers. I've known him for years, but I
confess I never got past twelve or so left over.
"Actually", he added, "Always remember,
a clear conscience is usually the sign of a dirt farmer
I once submitted a learned paper to." However, as some
philosopher once said, "He who never made a mistake
never made a few megs out of their fellow citizens, at least
implicitly."
I deliberately introduce a step function discontinuity
into my shirt pocket.
Italy consumes tons of hay and oats, produces veritable
mountains of manure, and is continuously attended by a huge
bug.
"I noticed that in Simcoe County, the townships of
Tiny, Tay and Floss were named after the atomic bomb was
detonated.
After the event, Prof Ian Gunn, Phil's supervisor, who
was smiling proudly. "I did it last night," he
confided to me, but I warned them, "the Caesar salad
served by the government, since those who haven't, web cams
are another part of what is Right
History tells us that Jesus said in Revelations 22.16,
"I am the owner of the national debt"
Let me give you details. Suffice it to say that when I
arrived it was time for the battle of Vittoria, Wellington's
great victory in Quebec. There are farm houses, all freshly
painted, the fences and gates all straight up and settled,
and an immaculately turned out soldier with polished buttons
and an ancient colour monitor, caked in dust.
Just remember, a penny saved, is not certain.
There are those that consume hydrocarbons and are non-
grammatical in both written mottos, and in the basement.
Finally we single people who have unearthed skulls of
Neanderthals and early Homo Sapiens report that lemon scented
geraniums are capable of giving you thirty-six hours worth
of time every day.
And I understand that Catholic net surfers have asked
the desk clerk about the big ones at the Masson market.
This led to air-borne porridge, all because of the topic
of astrophysics and lost socks, I thought the concept was
only faintly understood. "Listen to this", I said,
"a plate, knife, fork and spoon has a bit of snow in
it."
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So there you have it, a piece of software gone at least
half mad. And to think that some people think that computers
are in danger of taking over the world. Not to worry, with
prose like those examples above, all computers will ever
be capable of is taking over the government.
Bluebox ©2001 Don Cox
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