A Fly's Dying Declaration

[Eric]

I was just looking at the site on my laptop when a large fly apparently flew into the ceiling fan and got nailed. I heard the faint thump and as I started to look up, the little bastard fell out of the air, right onto the keyboard of my MacBook. He came to rest squarely on the 'M' key. Now I am left to wonder if he was trying to tell me something. Was the key he landed on a choice, or mere happenstance? What could he have been trying to communicate to me with that M-key landing? He could have just discovered the meaning of life in his final moments and was trying to share it with me. A flying, dying declaration, if you will.  I'll never know and that realization will haunt me for minutes.

[holyjohnson]

perhaps the Fly was aiming for Command+ M, that does Minimize all Windows.

The Departed Fly may have been Steve Jobs Reincarnated..

[Eric]

1 minute ago, holyjohnson said:

perhaps the Fly was aiming for Command+ M, that does Minimize all Windows.

The Departed Fly may have been Steve Jobs Reincarnated..

Seems like Jobs would have aimed for the 'Control' key.

[Huaco Kid]

Help Meeeeeeeeee....

[Eric]

2 minutes ago, holyjohnson said:

perhaps the Fly was aiming for Command+ M, that does Minimize all Windows.

The Departed Fly may have been Steve Jobs Reincarnated..

Anyway, if it was Steve Jobs reincarnated, God must be a Windows user.

[holyjohnson]

2 minutes ago, Eric said:

Anyway, if it was Steve Jobs reincarnated, God must be a Windows user.

God Prefers the TempleOS, even God cant get past Windows Shabby Security..

[Eric]

31 minutes ago, holyjohnson said:

God Prefers the TempleOS, even God cant get past Windows Shabby Security..

I wish God was a Linux user. The universe would run much more smoothly.

#!/bin/bash

for (( ; ; ))
do
   echo "infinite loops [ hit CTRL+Armageddon to stop]"
done

 

[Fnfalman]

Dial “M” for murder?

[holyjohnson]

6 minutes ago, Fnfalman said:

Dial “M” for murder?

are you saying The BGH knowingly used a Fan to take out that Fly?

[Eric]

6 minutes ago, holyjohnson said:

are you saying The BGH knowingly used a Fan to take out that Fly?

I'm crafty like that. The setup took weeks, but the plan came off without a hitch. I once killed a praying mantis with a car antenna, at high speed. Now THAT was a job.

[Eric]

22 minutes ago, Eric said:

I wish God was a Linux user. The universe would run much more smoothly.

#!/bin/bash

for (( ; ; ))
do
   echo "infinite loops [ hit CTRL+Armageddon to stop]"
done

 

For the edification of you non-geek types, 'bash' stands for 'Bourne Again Shell'.

[Eric]

Seriously, God could probably automate 70% or 80% of his daily scutt work as cron jobs. As far as people problems go, basically, most people could be replaced with fairly simple shell scripts and no one would even notice. He could really cut down on his workload.

[Eric]

Since God would obviously have root access, I wonder if he would assign non-believer users to /usr/bin/false? Trust me, if you are into UNIX/Linux, that is worth at least a half-hearted sympathy chuckle.

[crockett]

1 hour ago, Eric said:

I wish God was a Linux user. The universe would run much more smoothly.

#!/bin/bash

for (( ; ; ))
do
   echo "infinite loops [ hit CTRL+Armageddon to stop]"
done

 

Ever since Jan 2021 I think he would want to start all over with rm -rf /

[crockett]

23 minutes ago, Eric said:

Since God would obviously have root access, I wonder if he would assign non-believer users to /usr/bin/false? Trust me, if you are into UNIX/Linux, that is worth at least a half-hearted sympathy chuckle.

 

He'd send them to a really nice place, in /dev/null.

[Eric]

3 minutes ago, crockett said:

Ever since Jan 2021 I think he would want to start all over with rm -rf

Yeah, if I were in his place, the rm command would get me in trouble.

[Eric]

3 minutes ago, crockett said:

 

He'd send them to a really nice place, in /dev/null.

I wonder how many gigabytes of cron output I have floating around in /dev/null?

[crockett]

9 minutes ago, Eric said:

I wonder how many gigabytes of cron output I have floating around in /dev/null?

I don't think anything gets even written to the HDD. The file is a device that dumps it right away.

[21 shooter]

1 hour ago, Eric said:

I was just looking at the site on my laptop when a large fly apparently flew into the ceiling fan and got nailed. I heard the faint thump and as I started to look up, the little bastard fell out of the air, right onto the keyboard of my MacBook. He came to rest squarely on the 'M' key. Now I am left to wonder if he was trying to tell me something. Was the key he landed on a choice, or mere happenstance? What could he have been trying to communicate to me with that M-key landing? He could have just discovered the meaning of life in his final moments and was trying to share it with me. A flying, dying declaration, if you will.  I'll never know and that realization will haunt me for minutes.

Perhaps the fly was a recent high school graduate from Oregon and was looking at pictures of,uh, reading the  flight plan, when the ceiling fan flew into him thereby leading to his untimely demise.   Cause of death listed as chines flu.  

[Eric]

13 minutes ago, crockett said:

I don't think anything gets even written to the HDD. The file is a device that dumps it right away.

I know, but /dev/null exists man. Out there in the ether. All that stuff we send to it ends up there and there it sets. Waiting. A Ghost in the Machine.

[Eric]

2 minutes ago, Eric said:

I know, but /dev/null exists man. Out there in the ether. All that stuff we send to it ends up there and there it sets. Waiting. A Ghost in the Machine.

******* spellchecker. I spelled out ether twice and twice it changed it to either. I am sick of that electronic d-bag second-guessing me.

[EdTracker]

Having hit my head on ceiling fans, the first thought that comes to my mind after a good solid wacking is "M"***********!