S. Worthen | Weblog

What, no '42' for the first question?

42.

No, doesn't work.

I like your solution. I went with 20 since I figured that small town boys could grow up to be men without ever leaving their hometowns. Yet another way of looking at the problem makes it all more difficult though - what if the only way to become a man - or the method being chosen by this individual - is to walk down roads? If road walking were the only way to achieve manhood, how many roads would be necessary to fulfill that rite of passage?

I figured the dove would probably sleep even before she started flying - since chicks tend to do that. The way around my solution is to say that sure, she can sleep, but she can't sleep in the sand until she's flown over more seas than what I put. (Geekery note: I did a few sloppy websearches to see if I could find out what the actual number of seas in the world is - not finding any answers and being too lazy to count, I went with the traditional seven.)

Metaphorically, cannonballs are still flying - but how often is a cannonball actually fired in this day and age of much more powerful weaponry? Not very often, I'd bet. These days, cannonballs are almost the least of our worries when it comes to weapons technologies.