Stories by: Sean McGrath

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    Six-word stories for geeks 20/11/2006 14:22:38

    There is something about extreme brevity in the use of language that appeals to me. I suspect it comes from decades of fighting with command line interfaces of computer systems. How can I get this infernal machine to do complicated stuff using just a small number of commands? Anyone who keeps that question in their head for enough years becomes attracted to the arts of extreme brevity in language.
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    Moving mountains with tweezers 11/09/2003 12:26:00

    I saw a cartoon once in which a rabbit is searching for something time consuming to do. He elects to move an entire mountain from A to B with the aid of tweezers. I laughed. Maybe because I was a kid at the time.
 
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