I wonder if there's something to the fact that I nearly missed this week's theme: bugs. Maybe because I cringe at a mention or image of a crawling, flying creature!
Let me try to make up for it by at least mentioning one bug that irritates me the most: the bugs in my software!
Here's what Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, early computer specialist, said on the removal of a 2-inch-long moth from the Harvard Mark I experimental computer at Harvard in August 1945: "From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it."
4 comments:
As a trained librarian, I always research very throughly.
I will confess to using the information I like best. I guess it is human nature to go with what we like best.
I agree with Annette, I usually go with the answer that best meets the need of my story -- if there's more than one answer. I have found my current novel more complicated, however, when I got a simple No answer to a question I was hoping would be replied Yes.
I agree with Annette, I usually go with the answer that best meets the need of my story -- if there's more than one answer. I have found my current novel more complicated, however, when I got a simple No answer to a question I was hoping would be replied Yes.
I like it, Camille. I think it is fascinating to find out where references came from.
That sounds like one big moth. I had something like that fly in my house one night. It was so big, I thought it was some kind of hummingbird. But I realized you don't see hummingbirds flying around at night. I looked through a bunch of books to figure out what it was and found something between moths and butterflies called trappers.
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