On Monday 02 July 2018 10:41:21 deloptes wrote:

William Morder wrote:

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You are anthropomorphizing your computer, and childishly ascribing to a machine your own personal likes and dislikes.

Everybody knows that computers run on Guinnness Extra Stout.

There has been a study ages ago, that people (especially women) tend to handle computers as human beings. Funny but true :)so this is nothing unusual. There was a story I heard that in the 1920ties older woman in Germany put a cake infront of the radio so that the homunculus inside would have something to eat :)

When I was a child, I used to think that the music and the announcers and other voices somehow lived inside the radio and TV. Then when I got a bit older, I came to understand that they sent out their broadcasts from a studio, a building that was some distance away. Since I had seen television shows like Ed Sullivan, with musicians playing their songs, I knew that they had instruments and equipment, but I was puzzled about how they could change so quickly from one group to another. My theory was that they must have several different rooms, and that some music group would be playing in one room while another would be setting up in another, and so on.

This is exactly why women tend to humanize us lonely bachelors, and make them presentable in public, and to brighten up a home; it has something to do with that tendency. The world would be a very dull place without a little irrationality to make us bounce through life, rather than scraping along, in deadly seriousness, freed from superstiton, but weighed down by the irresistible force of gravity.

I don't really think that women are more childish, or given to irrational superstitions, of course; I was just joking. Men just tend to lack a sense of romance and poetry, and about three-quarters of them cannot dance (or even clap on the right beats in a song).

Men also tend to be superstious and irrational about different things than women; for example, men imagine may fancy that their cars have personality; and their tendency to superstition often runs through activities such as contact sports.

But enough this off-topic, or we will call down the wrath of others!

Bill