Challenge #02072-E248: In the Stars — Steemit
It was mathematics. Geometry. Therefore it had to be as true as the four humors. Cassius watched as the Greek made notes and drew lines between symbols. It was, ultimately, a star-shaped drawing inside a circle, and some other intersecting lines.
“What are the omens?”
“The empire’s displeasure continues. You will not rise yet,” said Sophus the Prognosticator. “The emperor has fallen, and the new one is standing in his shadow. If his sun shines, then you may have a chance. If he continues in his current path, he will fall soon after. It is a time of strife.”
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Challenge #01827-E001: Speech of the Gods — Steemit
In the lack of belief, gods and demigods go to wherever their name is still spoken, written, or known. She was once such a demigod. The muse of music. She had had believers. She had had worship. Now… all she had left was her name. Calliope. And it was here that her name was given to a machine.
They counted the year as 1850. And in a steam workshop in Vermont, Alex Durry tooled around with his master’s equipment. Steam could work wonders in this world. It moved great loads. It saved lives. And, as he discovered by moving an organ pipe over a steam vent. The noise startled him, and almost made him dent the pipe. But it did give him an idea…
They had all the equipment they could need to make a prototype in this workshop… Alex got all the spare parts he could together on one workbench. Enough to demonstrate the principal. Mister Stoddard might even be pleased enough to let Alex keep the idea. But then again, that was a high hope. White folks didn’t like the idea of escaped former slaves inventing things[1]. Alex believed in Mr Stoddard, all the same. He was a good man, and had a head for useful inventions.
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Challenge #01771-D310: Necessary Feature Creep
The single most useful command on a computer: ctrl/cmnd+Z – TheDragonsFlame
Everything is the result of laziness. People invented crank calculators because they didn’t want to go through the mathematics themselves. People invented computers because the living ones took a little too long to bust the Enigma code. And programming code was invented because people were sick and tired of having to translate everything into ones and zeroes.
Code editors were invented to keep things straight and highlight mistakes.
Other functions came with the mother of most inventions. Necessity. Grace stared at her miles and miles of code and swore. “Mother fuck,” even though she invented this code, she’d still messed it up.