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A mostly-random thought: could you effectively/interestingly film A Night in the Lonesome October as a series, one episode per chapter (to be aired on consecutive nights in October, of course)? The amount the chapters vary in length is one problem I'm wondering about. Though perhaps if it were a web series instead of broadcast or cable, episodes could just be as long or short as each chapter's text required, instead of trying to make them each 22 minutes long (or whatever a half hour is on television nowadays). There's still the problem that on some days not much happens ... If it could be made to work and keep viewers coming bak for each night's chapter, that might be an interesting way for viewers to experience it.

When I get the right box unpacked, I'll have to reread it with video in mind.

"The Babbage Language Design Group is continuously evaluating new features that will keep its users from reaching any level of effectiveness. For instance, Babbage's designers are now considering the ALMOST EQUALS sign, used for comparing two floating-point numbers. This new feature 'takes the worry out of being close.'" -- Tony Karp, "Babbage - The language of the future", Datamation, September 1981

[I've been carrying chunks of this around in my head for decades, probably from reading the original in Datamation (Dad used to get it). And then I got old enough that younger programmers had no idea what I was referring to when I mentioned a GOING GOING GONE statement, or the Virtual Time Operating System. Enjoy Babbage, the language "named after the first systems designer to go over budget and behind schedule."]