Victims of Information Highway Roadkill

This humble website is dedicated to the memory of:
Mister Seymour Cray, "Peabody" and "Bunny Rabbit".

ZERO would like to sincerely dedicate this web site to the memory of Mr. Seymour Cray, the "father" of the modern Supercomputer; who died on Saturday, October 5, 1996-- from injuries caused by a meaningless auto accident, Sept. 22nd.
Talk about Information Highway Roadkill!!!

The world-recognized founder of Cray Research spent 40 years of his life,

40 Years!

working at building supercomputers-- the first real, modern supercomputers-- which make your instant access to this web site possible...from any point on the globe! Mister Cray's pioneering spirit lives on at Cray Research (which, just a week after the founder's death) has announced that its new owners (Silicon Graphics) is about to apply Cray Research technology to the creation of the first "Teraflop" computer (about a million-times faster than the PC you're probably using to read these words). That technology will make the world of the 22nd Century (and beyond) one in which humankind and its technology...lives in harmony with the complexity and chaos of nature.

Besides making the internet "virtually" possible, Mr Cray also invented Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC)-- which is exactly the kind of chip architecture that the just-released teraflop design will incorporate.

So, like what happened to this guy?

Cray died Saturday, Oct.5, at age 71-- of injuries that were sustained in a stupid, meaningless automobile accident in Colorado Springs, CO. According to published reports, the traffic accident was caused by (as pictured in the papers) an arrogant and angry-looking guy in his mid-20's... who tried to pass Cray's Jeep Cherokee as he followed Cray down an ON RAMP, southbound onto Interstate 25.
Apparently, this guy couldn't wait 5 or 10 SECONDS... and THEN pass Cray's car!
The result was that "Speedy's" car hit another auto that was already on the highway...then plowed into Cray, causing his Jeep to roll three times!

Your writer learned of Cray's death, listening to Wyoming Public Radio-- while attending the University of Wyoming's Conference on "Ethics in the CyberSociety"... up in the beautiful and thankfully-remote spendor (and relative safety) of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Rest in peace, Mister Cray and thanks for all you did for (virtually) all of us!
.... ZERO.

And who is "Peabody"?

This site is also dedicated to the memory of a sweet little terrier named Peabody, who was hit by a truck in West Laramie, Wyoming; a week after Mr Cray's passing.
ZERO was passing by... and saw the sad event occur... and stopped-- when nobody else could bother-- and the last thing that Peabody heard was ZERO's voice, promising to take her home, as he lifted her in his arms... where she quietly died, before they reached the safety of the side of the road.

You'll be seeing more of Peabody, as a cartoon character on these pages in the days to come. Peabody is mentioned here, side-by-side with Mr Cray; because--unlike you, the cyber-reader-- ZERO heard...FOR REAL!... the crushing anguish of one little girl, when she heard the news that her most important friend in the world was gone. According to the girl's Mom, Peabody once took on a Rotweiler who was attacking the girl... and saved her.

ZERO will miss them both.. the great man and the greatest friend of an innocent little girl... and try to honor the memory of both precious, once-living entities... in the future, on these humble pages.
Because, reader, out on the Information Highway, it looks more and more to ZERO that we're all-- all of us-- nothing more than sitting ducks... to be next.

Whoops, only a month later... and sure-enough!
One more (poor/stupid/totally-innocent) Information Highway Roadkill!

This time it was Zero's own little kittycat, Bunny (sister of Bugs)
Zero was invited out-- to the (oh so) prestigious campus of Stanford University... to look at possibly becoming "Chief Operations Officer" of the (it sounded too good)
"Stanford World Internet Center".. and left Bugs and Bunny back in Old Wyoming (with a friend...
...who then got himself invited down to Florida,to (get this!) "drive" the nuclear attack submarine, USS Cheyenne,up to Virginia!
Tom Clancey (Clancy?) was also on board; and everybody had a fun time with the new (Clancey) CD-ROM,"SSN"

But not Bunny. By the time Zero returned to Old Wyoming... Bunny had (somehow) lived up to her name, "Bunny Rabbit"... and was probably eaten by a Coyote, Fox, Badger or Eagle... or froze to death one night, trying to find her way home.

Zero never did find little Bunny's body.
Maybe Angela (you'll meet her on this website) is real... and she SWOOPED down in her space ship; and has little Bunny Rabbit with her in orbit!)

Brother Bugs and Zero both miss the little Miss Astro-Kitty (you know, they're both actually "Space Monkeys" from another planet!

When Zero first found them, this brother/sister act was only a month old; and they were stumbling along the highway... back into Mexican Hat, Utah... from the town dump (where somebody had taken them to die. Bugs had a smashed hip; and little Bunny was taking care of him... playing with him... keeping him alive.

Now four years later, Bunny has died needlessly...because in Silicon Valley, nothing means... "Nothing". Old Zero's "job interview" turned out to be with a real-life "Californicator"...one who couldn't even be bothered standing up from his office chair, to shake Zero's hand-- as he was leaving, for a 1,300 mile hike... BACK to Old Wyoming!
Well, that's who this web site is dedicated to: A SupercomputerMan, a little girl's best friend and Bug's sister!
Thanks for caring to check this out...now,

This humble website is dedicated to the memory of: Mister Seymour Cray, "Peabody" and "Bunny Rabbit".

ZERO would like to sincerely dedicate this web site to the memory of Mr. Seymour Cray, the "father" of the modern Supercomputer; who died on Saturday, October 5, 1996-- from injuries caused by a meaningless auto accident, Sept. 22nd. Talk about Information Highway Roadkill!!!