[TriLUG] really OT.. ancient thread.. metaphysical humor

[Brian McCullough]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:50:06PM -0500, Marty Ferguson wrote:
> Rick DeNatale wrote:
> >On 5/4/06, Phillip Rhodes <mindcrime at cpphacker.co.uk> wrote:
> >>Jason Tower wrote:
> >>
> >>> as a matter of fact i was watching a tv program the other day 
> >>involving
> >>> time travel, and i learned that you can't change the past:
> >>
> >>Weird... I was watching a tv programme [1] the other day
> >>involving time travel and learned that you *can* change the
> >>past... but when you do, the past keeps trying to reassert
> >>itself and big demon like creatures appear and start
> >>swallowing people.  <shrug>
> >
> >
> >Well the last time *I* tried it, I ended up forking a parallel universe.
> >
> >Lost track of what happened to my old(1) universe.
> >
> >(1) Or maybe it was my NEW universe, I get a bit confused sometimes.


Don't forget that you need to keep track of the pid returned by fork()!


B-)