Editing 378: Real Programmers
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:Butterfly Cueball: Excuse me, but <u>Real</u> Programmers use butterflies. | :Butterfly Cueball: Excuse me, but <u>Real</u> Programmers use butterflies. | ||
− | :[A Cueball-like programmer is standing | + | :[A Cueball-like programmer is standing and holding out a butterfly in front of his computer. The butterfly flaps its wings.] |
− | :Butterfly Cueball ( | + | :Butterfly Cueball (narrating off-screen): They open their hands and let the delicate wings flap once. |
− | :[The next two panels are smaller, and two | + | :[The next two panels are smaller, and the two texts below are written uninterrupted respectively above and below both panels. The first panel is the Cueball-like programmer with the butterfly and above him four curved arrows pointing up or down. The second panel shows the upper atmosphere, with large clouds far below and the earth even further down. Also here are shown seven of the same type of arrows.] |
− | :Butterfly Cueball ( | + | :Butterfly Cueball (narrating off-screen): The disturbances ripple outward, changing the flow of the eddy currents in the upper atmosphere. |
− | :Butterfly Cueball ( | + | :Butterfly Cueball (narrating off-screen): These cause momentary pockets of higher-pressure air to form, |
− | :[ | + | :[Also the next two panels are smaller and the texts below are written without interruption above both panels. The first panel shows the atmosphere, again with clouds, and four parallel lines coming from above, and then they begin to merge, getting quite close at the bottom of the panel. The second panel shows the four lines merging on a driver platter.] |
− | :Butterfly Cueball ( | + | :Butterfly Cueball (narrating off-screen): Which act as lenses that deflect incoming cosmic rays, focusing them to strike the drive platter and flip the desired bit. |
:[All the programmers who have commented so far stand in the order they have commented facing the last Cueball-like man, who slaps his forehead.] | :[All the programmers who have commented so far stand in the order they have commented facing the last Cueball-like man, who slaps his forehead.] |