I’ve noticed that whenever I start creating a document on this computer, it is keeping track of my word count, the spelling, grammar and syntax, as if I’m to be graded upon completion. The key ingredient within this system that is missing is fun. It doesn’t seem to understand that I’m just creating gibberish for the fun of it. No grades, no test, just silliness.
At this moment I don’t really care about anything proper, but it is programmed to follow a path and cannot deviate. It isn’t allowed to cut through the flowerbed, or across the school yard. Unlike me, who can suddenly mix a metaphor to such a degree that it is no longer able to fly and must stay on the ground until the oven timer dings.
But
what if there were a system out there that could, if desired, slip off its
shoes and wander willie-nilly? I wonder
what it would look like. I guess if someone like me had become a computer programmer... No chance. I'd have been fired my first day.
1 comment:
I remember when I first started typing in Word that my word count kept getting better and better each time that I checked! I felt pretty good about that until I realized that it kept the previous count. So, if I did 30 words in 5 minutes, the next time I checked I had done 60 words in 5 minutes, then 90 words in 5 minutes. Ya - it was then that I caught on.
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