On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 01:36:26PM -0400, SteveW wrote:
> My only question is whether or not engines are actually another form of
> intelligent life.
[LOL] Steve, that one is going into my quote file. Thank you.
(And they are, too. A particularly mean, vicious, sneaky form of life.
Hey - did we just discover an alien invasion???)
> When you don't really need them, they'll run fine! But
> I'm convinced they can hear our thoughts and when we've got that "oh boy, we
> could get in trouble here, we better start the engine" the engine in
> question has an "ahah" moment and decides this would be a great time to pay
> you back for some previous real or imagined abuse...
A parallel case, from the world of computers (quoted from the
alt.sysadmin.recovery USENET group):
So I'm waiting around after hours here at BFC, because we've got a bad
4mm DAT drive attached to the file server in our lab, and the daily and
weekly backups are therefore suspect. Also the disk drives are making
that sound which says, "I'm a happy drive. I'm a cheerful drive. I'm
smiling at you because I'm grinding my spindles into microscopic dust
and there's not a single thing you can do about it. I'm going to fail.
I'm going to do it soon. Or later. I'm not telling. Probably soon,
because I've been chatting with the DAT drive two hops up the SCSI
chain, and he tells me that he's been ill, so if I fail *now*, you'll
have no recent backups. That's why I'm happy. I'm in control. I want a
goat. And candles. Black ones. Pray, human. Pray that I'm in a good
mood. PRAY, DAMMIT, ON YOUR KNEES, YOU LIMACEOUS BIT OF MEATWARE!"
I digress.
-- Carl Jacobs
[grin]
Ben
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