Where’s the Billy Goats Gruff When You Need Them?

Out from beneath the bridge emerged a hideous troll. From the nearby town, it heard viewpoints other than its own, and this caused the troll to gnash its teeth and stomp its feet in rage. Eventually it was provoked into a mindless attack on the townsfolk, though what it hoped to accomplish was unknown… even to the troll itself. It just knew it could not let the townsfolk’s merriment go undisturbed.
Some fought back with the troll, trying to match its rage, but this only pleased the terrible creature, causing it to dance a happy troll dance in glee. Others just ignored the silly troll, and this only enraged it further. “I am the troll!” it shrieked, “I disturb your peace! Will you not fight me?”
The troll then continued its mindless attack, clawing at doors at gnawing at the sides of buildings when no one went to engage it. The townspeople found this quite amusing, but knew that, if this happened too often, the pitiful creature would have to be slain.


Anyhoo, I found out there is this odd thing that people sometimes add to software programs. It’s like a line of code, but the compiler completely ignores it. What’s the use of a line of code the compiler would ignore, you ask? Apparently it’s in case someone else may read the actual code I wrote, and these seemingly useless lines would help explain the rest of the code. I believe these things are called “comments”. I’m a hardware engineer, so the way of the software programmer are weird and scary to me, yet I must conform to their customs. Thus I need to go into work today to do this “commenting” so that I may meet a deadline.
I guess that pretty much means nothing to you guys, but, anyway, since there have been so much happening in recent events, Rumsfeld’s comments can’t wait until Wednesday. Thus there will be a press conference tomorrow morning… despite the anger of the trolls.