Clouds drifting by

6. Tell about an "Aha!" moment you’ve had.

Years ago, I was watching a documentary on the Spanish Armada. They were trying to invade the Isle of Wight but the tide was going out as they were trying to reach the beach. The documentary had this handy little graphic showing the ships plowing forward through the waves but they were actually being driven backwards because of the tide.

I jumped in my seat because I realised it was the Theory of Relativity. It still makes me smile to think of it.

Borrowed from thisbluespirit on dreamwidth.

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3 For every day of 2020, you will be required to wear a t-shirt with the same one word on it. What word will you choose?

Oops!

2. What would be the first sentence of your autobiography?

"Late, as always, I was born on the..."

If Sci-Fi movies mentioned 2020, it was always very hi-tech. The computers might have been the size of washing machines, but there were flying cars, humanoid robot servants (usually homicidal), and lots and lots of polyester.

Did any of them predict teeny tiny computers you could fit in your pocket? No. But, if they had, would they have been homicidal?

Anyway, despite the lack of flying cars, 2020 it is. I hope it's a kind and gentle year for us all. *hugs*

Why do manufacturers or programmers assume people want the most annoying setting on text programmes? Every single time, in Word, on phones, on Kindles, inputting text leads to a fight between what I want to write and what the programme insists on inserting. Then I have to track down the corresponding setting and turn it off in order to regain control over what the text actually says.

I was leaving a comment on a Hobbit fic on Ao3 and mentioned Nori. The keyboard didn't like that at all. Nori? Obviously a mistake! I obviously wanted the word 'Both'! In another comment, on Reddit this time, mom was obviously min. Gah!

I know what I'm typing! Stop fixing my words! Grrrr!

Technology, I tell ya. This is how the war between mankind and machines will start...with FU Autocorrect.

A big yawn caught me unexpectedly just now and I yawned right in Daisy's face. She was fascinated!

"What's that? Can I put my paw in?"

No, Daisy, don't be sticking your paw in my mouth, if you please.

"I could have sworn it was over here by the big tree."

...who provided the voice for this repellent character?


(The Goblin King.)

Yes? No? Oh, what was his name?
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