“He who fights
and runs away lives to fight another day.”
General Custer* #quote
Today I went to a card game thing that now takes place on Friday. I
may stop going to the one on Sunday as it's farther away and just go
to the ones on Friday and Saturday.
A Strange Artifact
Thousands upon thousands of years after the people of today croak
and become corpses they become the subject of archeology. Eventually
everything does. Today we have mummies and disco to catalog and
study. In the future it will be us.
“What is this strange artifact?” an archeologist says in a
language that will be invented a few thousand years from now. (And
has a word for telling someone that you're single but they're not
your type, but the word has that sort of tone that will make them
think that you're calling them ugly or giving them a lame excuse.
It's a great word really. Makes dating less awkward.) He held up the
artifact in his plastic gloves carefully and places it in a sterile
containment unit.
The other scientists gather around the artifact. They'd been digging for quite awhile.
Something being discovered sent jolts of excitement down all their
backs. Archeology is work that involves great reward after great
tedium.
The archeologist looked at it and instantly formed his hypothesis
and spout it triumphantly. “Obviously this artifact was a
close-quarters combat weapon. Something this large and heavy must
have only that function. The writing on the top of it must be some
sort of army markings.”
The archeologist observed a dictionary. As technology had been
instituted for so many thousands of years the concept of a book was
foreign to him and he didn't even think of opening it. The future
became so far flung even the simplest elements of the past were
buried. After thousands upon thousands of years the archeologists now
dug through their own archives of the Internet and the very ground
just to figure out who invented things as after all that time it
became lost and needed to be rediscovered. Maybe this archeologist
will deduce what a book is and help them further along the path.
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