28 Aug
2003
28 Aug
'03
6:24 a.m.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:38:50 -0400 "Bob Hall" rjhjr@cox.net wrote:
Ever since tools got more complicated than the hammer, civilization has been going downhill. Hammers use binary logic; if you hit something, it either goes <bang> or <splat>. I don't know what computers use; pixie dust maybe?
Magic smoke, actually. You can tell, 'cause when the magic smoke escapes from inside, then the machine stops working. A hammer can be used to prove this thesis (but it's a ternary-logic hammer; in this case, it generally goes <crunch>).
Amy!
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