currently reading - Book of the New Sun: Sword of the Lyctor


Monster” is derived from the Latin noun monstrum, “divine portent,” itself formed on the root of the verb monere, “to warn.” It came to refer to living things of anomalous shape or structure, or to fabulous creatures like the sphinx who were composed of strikingly incongruous parts, because the ancients considered the appearance of such beings to be a sign of some impending supernatural event. Monsters, like angels, functioned as messengers and heralds of the extraordinary. They served to announce impending revelation, saying, in effect, “Pay attention; something of profound importance is happening.”
-Susan Stryker


SpindleyQ
@SpindleyQ

This was the official logo of the Shareware Marketing company (later Atlantic Coast plc and SWREG), and was officially registered as a trademark in 1989. It depicts a floppy disk being passed from one person to another. Shareware Marketing's slogan was "One day, all software will be sold this way".

Source: Shareware Heroes, by Richard Moss


Sir
@Sir

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in reply to @SpindleyQ's post:

I love my friends
And they love me.
We're just as close
As we can be.
And just because
We really care
Whatever we get
We share(ware).

"I got it from Agnes" - Tom Lehrer.

I hope Agnes didn't mind him taking her picture.