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The three sons stand around the open grave, looking down at their father's casket, after the ceremony is finished. A gravedigger stands by holding a shovel, unsure if the sons will want to do the customary throwing of a handful of earth in final farewell.
The bereaved mother comes rushing up, to tell the sons that their father's last wish was that they should each put a one-hundred dollar bill in the grave. The sons are baffled by this, but, of course, they will respect the last wish.
The oldest son, an engineer, takes a one-hundred dollar bill out from his wallet and drops it in. The second, son, a doctor, does the same. The third son, a programmer, takes out a sheet of paper, writes on it, then drops that in the grave.
The rest of the family looks disturbed: "What did you just put in the grave," the mother asks in an irritated tone of voice. "Always had to be different, that one," said the engineer; "Why the hell didn't you put the money in ?," said the doctor.
The programmer, looking baffled by these questions, said: "I put in the formula for compound interest at the current rate, and gave him one-third of what the balance would be after two-hundred years, which is one-thousand dollars."
note: this is my own take on a very old story usually involving a doctor, engineer, and lawyer.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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I was expecting that he put only a reference for the real dollar bill instance. 
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Yeah, I was expecting the paper to be the "address" of where the money is located, passing the money by reference rather than by value...
Er, I can't think of a funny signature right now.
How about a good fart to break the silence?
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BillWoodruff wrote: "I put in the formula for compound interest at the current rate, and gave him one-third of what the balance would be after two-hundred years, which is one-thousand dollars."
Thank goodness he wasn't buried at sea, because you get no return on a sunk cost
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I don't get it 
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There was a fourth son - an accountant - who removed the bills and replaced them with a cheque for $400...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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First thought was the third son put in a "bill" (invoice) for $100.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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I've always heard that the third guy (lawyer) puts in a check for $300 and takes out the $200 cash.
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I know this joke with the a cheque.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I think now you know both versions.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I'd ask to see the spec.
What's the deadline?
Can't I remove one of the other bills and then toss that one back in?
Once I have tossed in a bill can't I then remove it?
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Thank you for rocking my morning!
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Nice one, but I still prefer Poison (because that's about his only song I know)
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This one's a personal favourite of mine because it reintroduces Steven (who last appeared 15 years earlier in Welcome To My Nightmare). Also, while the lyrics are quite dark, it's a catchy riff.
This space for rent
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I really can't choose between "Freedom!", "Brutal Planet" and "Love is a loaded gun".
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Sander Rossel wrote: The melody also reminds me of Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
What are you smoking ? That video is nothing but visual titillation and a bunch of loops.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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BillWoodruff wrote: hat video is nothing but visual titillation and a bunch of loops.
I never said anything about the video... 
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By the way Bill, so far you've only let me know what music you DON'T like.
So what DO you like?
I know it's nothing with a beat or distorted guitars.
The only thing you had to say about Samuel Barber is that I must be smoking something so I am inclined to rule out classical music as well.
You didn't reply to my jazz track of last week, so you either didn't listen to it or maybe you actually like jazz?
Whatever genre you like will be my song of next week (unless it's really something awful, like ballads) 
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Hi Sander,
I owe you an apology for ragging on your song choices too much. So, there, I apologize, and I appreciate the warm dignity of this response to my tresspass !
Musical tastes are just that: "tastes," and they should be respected. And, our tastes do change with age. I had the good-fortune-and-curse to come of age in the halcyon years of the 1960's in California,and to hear, in person, some of the greats including Janis Joplin, Beautiful Day, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, John Maclaughlin and Shakti, Ali Akbar Khan, Procul Harum, Jeffeson Airplane, The Eagles, The Beach Boys, Little Richard, James Brown, B. B. King, King Crimson, Neil Young, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pandi Chaurassia, Paco de Lucia, Al DiMeola, Sabicas, Montoya, and so forth. But now, with around 900 moons mileage on this sack of bones-and-meat, my tastes have really shifted
By the way, I love Barber's Adagio, and I've always felt it was "near in spirit" to Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor.
Here's an example of the kind of music that interests me most these days:
Cerik Erdogan playing a maqqam on fretless guitar: [^].
I really enjoy the music of the Norwegian composer Oystein Sevag, and his often frequent collaboration with guitarist Lakki Pattey, as on this track: [^].
And, I like listening to "ecstatic music" from the "middle-east:" like this concert by Hossein Alizadeh & Hamavayan 92 [^].
My favorite music "to program to" is the album by American composer David Parsons, "Ngaio Gamelan," very influenced by his deep immersion in Balinese music [^].
So, you may see, now, why I don't post a "song of the week," and I will shut-up about yours
cheers, Bill
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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BillWoodruff wrote: I owe you an apology for ragging on your song choices too much. So, there, I apologize
No need Bill, everyone is entitled to their opinion, although I much appreciate it
BillWoodruff wrote: years of the 1960's in California,and to hear, in person, some of the greats
Some great ones indeed! I listen to some of them on regular basis! The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix...
BillWoodruff wrote: By the way, I love Barber's Adagio, and I've always felt it was "near in spirit" to Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor.
Didn't know that song. Looked it up and it sounded familiar. Apparently Sarah Brightman's Anytime, Anywhere[^] is based on it. It's been used quite a lot by other artists too. And according to Wikipedia and the song I found on YouTube it's wasn't actually composed by Albinoni, but by his biographer Remo Giazotti who found some scribbles from Albinoni and used them to compose this song.
Nevertheless I see the resemblance in spirit with Barber's Adagio.
And Albinoni/Giazotto's Adagio reminds of other great baroque pieces like Vivaldi's seasons, Bach's Air, and Pachelbel's Canon in D. For some reason it also reminded me of Holt's Planets suite, Venus in particular.
Good one 
BillWoodruff wrote: Cerik Erdogan playing a maqqam on fretless guitar: [^].
To me this sounds like random notes being randomly plucked on a guitar. They do this in rock too and I really can't hear anything in it except complete randomness... So this certainly won't be my song of the week.
BillWoodruff wrote: I really enjoy the music of the Norwegian composer Oystein Sevag, and his often frequent collaboration with guitarist Lakki Pattey, as on this track: [^].
Now this I like! It's very new age and soothing. And his solo work is also quite synth-y. I'm guessing this guy also really likes Enigma and Vangelis and, to a lesser extent, Enya, Yanni, Era... Which is a good thing
BillWoodruff wrote: And, I like listening to "ecstatic music" from the "middle-east:" like this concert by Hossein Alizadeh & Hamavayan 92 [^].
This is well out of my comfort zone. The most Middle-Eastern music I've heard is from The Beatles and some psychedelic trance DJ's 
Instrumental I'm really liking it. I'm not always happy about the singing though. The part at around 50 minutes is really awesome even with the singing!
BillWoodruff wrote: My favorite music "to program to" is the album by American composer David Parsons, "Ngaio Gamelan," very influenced by his deep immersion in Balinese music [^].
Also pretty new age and soothing. I think I've heard of David Parsons before (and I'm not confusing him with Alan Parsons).
Did you pick up this taste in music in Thailand?
BillWoodruff wrote: So, you may see, now, why I don't post a "song of the week,"
No I don't, this stuff is at least as interesting as your literary ramblings! You should post about it more often 
BillWoodruff wrote: and I will shut-up about yours
If you don't have anything nice to say it's best to say nothing at all, otherwise I'm as much interested in your opinion as everyone else's
I'm going to leave you with some Norwegian sami by Mari Boine, something I picked up while I was on vacation there.
You might like it: Mari Boine - Vuoi Vuoi Mu[^]
Thanks for sharing!
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BillWoodruff wrote: visual titillation
In view of the apparent absence of the requisite ... er ... accoutrements, I'm not sure that's really the word for it!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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OK, I guess a static monochrome picture of an old guy might be someone's idea of "visual titillation", but I don't hear any loops. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Hi Richard, I wonder if we saw the same video. Sander's link took me to a YouTube video which attempted (but failed, imho) to be erotic complete with close-ups of certain nether "zones."
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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