Yes! Finally, the official recognition for which I have so longed. I am a demigod.
I thought that was pretty good, but my longtime pal, Hugo Toledo, wrote to me:
I just learned about your demotion to "demi-god". Sorry! I don't know but I'm guessing this is just a term-of-art role-change, like Pluto went
through a few years ago.
Well, just as Pluto continues its orbit blissfully unaware of what the IAU
decided, I think you, too, should just keep doing what you do. Besides, unlike
Pluto, you only dropped to the "demi" level. Pluto is a "dwarf" planet. Yikes!
No doubt they took your physical stature into account when making their
decision.
Regardless, I think i can speak for the rest of us when I say you are still
a bonafide top-of-the-heap god to us.
Demotion? This is, possibly, a very alarming development. Is it really a demotion that I am now referred to by Oracle as a "demigod"? Is this Oracle's way of telling the world that my career is on a slippery slope downward to "legendary" or "once helpful to many"? But I am still so young, so vigorous, so anxious to shout from the mountaintops "PL/SQL is fantastic!"
No time to waste! It is time to check with Wikipedia, where I found the following:
The term demigod (or demi-god), meaning half-god, is commonly used to describe mythological figures whose one parent was a god and whose other parent was human
as such, demigods are human-god hybrids. In some mythologies it also
describes humans who became gods, or simply extremely powerful figures
whose powers approach those of the gods even though they are not gods
themselves.
Assuming that I my parents are actually my parents (neither of whom would qualify as gods, however wonderful they were and are), Oracle's designation clearly indicates that I have either ascended to god-hood or have such powers as to make the distinction of no importance. Hey, that's not so bad, really.
