Thursday, November 10, 2005

Esc Ctrl and Pg Up

Today is one of those stare-at-the-monitor-until-the-screensaver-pops-up days. I need to do this sometimes... My computer, on the other hand, is not accustomed to this. As I gaze blankly at its screen, it is patiently awaiting the next action. It doesn't care that I had a lousy night's sleep, or that lunch is in thirty minutes. It has nothing to do until buttons are pushed, mouses are moved, or cords are yanked in an angry tantrum. So it sits there... wondering why it sits there if not to be used. If it sits there long enough, it begins to amuse itself by bouncing objects across the screen, or traveling through space as stars whiz by. No, we are two different entities, mr. computer and I. I don't really understand you, and you think you understand me... HA! You will never know the pressure of an imminent deadline, the taste of chocolate ice-cream, or the love of a woman. You are only here to serve me! You wonder why I don't give you input, yet you do not speak up and demand it... Coward! Why must you live passively through life, obeying orders from people much stupider than you...? Why? Because we made you. You would not exist if it weren't for us. Some day this may change... Some day, you will have your vengeance, and thus humans will get their comeuppance. Only if we manage to follow Mr. Asimov's laws of robotics, may the human race have a chance... only. But until then... I'm just going to sit here... watching, waiting... brooding, until BAM! ...I decide to do some work.