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tmcgSo I come across this local file called GTH.HTML. Usually I don't name things in caps. I have no idea what this thing is.
I open it. The entire page consists of three words: "Go to hell."
What is this? Something I created it in a fit of pique? At least then the filename ("Go to hell, HTML!") would make sense. And be kinda catchy when you say it out loud.
Finally light dawns when I see the page title: "I need to translate this." For a story I wrote (for Dead Cats Bouncing, a wickedly fun anthology), I needed to translate and transliterate the sentence "Go to hell" into Greek, Latin, and a bunch of other languages. I made that page so I could point Babelfish or something like that at it. (Didn't help with ancient Sumerian, but another Website did.)
So now I sorta like this tiny little file and don't want to delete it. And in two years I'll probably notice it again and go "What is this?!" and start the whole thing all over again.
Which is sort of like the cyclical spiraling weirdness that happens to the cat hero in the story. But that's another story.
I open it. The entire page consists of three words: "Go to hell."
What is this? Something I created it in a fit of pique? At least then the filename ("Go to hell, HTML!") would make sense. And be kinda catchy when you say it out loud.
Finally light dawns when I see the page title: "I need to translate this." For a story I wrote (for Dead Cats Bouncing, a wickedly fun anthology), I needed to translate and transliterate the sentence "Go to hell" into Greek, Latin, and a bunch of other languages. I made that page so I could point Babelfish or something like that at it. (Didn't help with ancient Sumerian, but another Website did.)
So now I sorta like this tiny little file and don't want to delete it. And in two years I'll probably notice it again and go "What is this?!" and start the whole thing all over again.
Which is sort of like the cyclical spiraling weirdness that happens to the cat hero in the story. But that's another story.
