Gods and Monsters
J Bowen at
No Watermelons writes about the pantheon of Greek Gods and what they might be doing these days:
Goddess of software....
If there are still worshippers of ancient Greek gods out there, they've probably been busy hanging new responsibilities on the old guys and gals. Aphrodite would get boob jobs and cosmetic surgery, Hephaestus would get robotics and microchip fabrication, Hermes would have the space shuttle and electric power generation, etc. Demeter might get genetically modified foods and sun lamps, and Hades would sponsor the Democratic Party. I'm not touching Uranus.
(Maybe old afflictions would change too - I suspect that Sisyphus would be a programmer. I can't think of good ones for Persephone and Tantalus).
Who would get software? That sounds like Athena turf to me when she wasn't sponsoring the Republicans and fighting Dionysius for the colleges and the libertarians. But then since it runs about everything nowadays Zeus and Hera would want to horn in, and Hera would outsmart Zeus, so Hera it is.
And here apparently someone wants to give a piece of the software action to Demeter
Sisyphus for programming -- J Bowen has spent some part of their life writing code. Probably has the Tee-Shirt as well...
Posted by DaveH at May 11, 2005 11:48 PM