HairyOldCoot

I would say once they hit the ground they are meteorites. But while they are falling they are meteors. Based solely on my own assumptions. Not a hill I care to defend.

Meteors. I stole that from "and the earth will shake" (Robert Anton Wilson). There was a description of The Royal College of Astronomy, or somesuch, harrumphing about such a ridiculous, and ignorant superstition.

The idea that rocks sometimes fall from the sky.

"Act like a dumb shit and they will treat you as an equal". --J. R. Bob Dobbs

I'm a retired programmer. A recent attempt at writing a Python script showed me that I have forgotten a LOT of the syntactic details. With that in mind, these are the langs that I have used professionally. "Know" might be an exaggeration at this point. HP basic Fortran C C++ C# Java Perl Python HTML (if that counts) Awk/sed

Wonderful series, but as much as I love King's work, the man just does not know how to end a story.

Standing in line in the basement of the CS building at UofM to get access to a card punch machine and type up my Fortran 4 program.

That was an episode of Sliders.

Ha! Just remembered the name of the novel. Hyperion by Dan Simmons. The Rabies name was Sol Weintraub, for what that's worth. OK, now I can think about something else...

My understanding of the story (in the novel, which I still can't remember the name) was that in knuckling under to the command to murder his own child, Abraham failed the test.

There is a novel, and damned if I can remember the title, where a rabi proposes that god commanding Abraham to kill his son was a test, which he (Abraham) failed.

FNORD