Showing posts with label palm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label palm. Show all posts

Saturday, April 5, 2008

During the intermission... some prose from Bjorlyn Loon

So, drats! Still cannot log in, but I did find this nugget in my in-box from Bjorlyn Loon. Thanks for making me smile, Bjorlyn!

Once upon a time, long, long ago, a Linden mistakenly named a 12 foot pine tree a 12 foot palm and placed it in everyone's Library. When planted, resident landscapers saw right away it was a pine, so the diligent among us renamed it "pine" in inventory and went right along planting it. In the last client update, the error was corrected, but rather than changing the name "palm" to "pine," they changed the tree itself from pine to palm, and suddenly palm trees appeared across the land. Where once we had pines named palms, now we have palms named pines, and a tropic breeze blows through the temperate woodlands.

The moral of this parable: If you try to palm off pines as palms, you'll leave people pining away for pines.