Re: What to make of the "AppleScript Experience"
Re: What to make of the "AppleScript Experience"
- Subject: Re: What to make of the "AppleScript Experience"
- From: Peter Bunn <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:08:58 -0500
(All quotes below were lifted from proper context... to provide context
and pull the thread together).
Last evening, Jon Pugh wrote:
>
Don't ask me, I've gone off my meds too.
>
However, computers are all about fantasy, so nothing's impossible. The
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key is defining your fantasy such that you can actually create it. This
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is what all programs do. They spin their own little fantasies and we
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interpret their results.
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That's a much simpler thread to stick to, as opposed to the AppleScript
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Experience, which sounds like it involves a bunch of Hendrix played loud
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(as if there were any other way to play Hendrix).
--
True Story
The last time I went seriously (psychotically) off my meds was on the
advent of my very first computer purchase in late '95. I had just
wrapped up a disastrous speaker building hobby and had only just begun a
newfound infatuation with bits and bytes.
On hand, I had a brand new PowerBook 5300 (the Cadillac of Road Apples)
and several pairs of moderately bad home-built speakers ready to rip and
roll. I had barely learned to change the hard disk name, but had noticed
that (for whatever unknown technical reason), the 'time remaining'
indicator on the battery actually _increased_ when I put my finger on the
touchpad. I found this a bit disturbing.
At some point in my psychosis, I arrived at the addled belief that
anything containing a battery of any kind was potentially explosive...
and further that there may be dangerous forces lurking in the PowerBook
and its peripherals. The power adaptor was hurled some distance away
from my house (in a lightly populated rural area). The PoohBook was
placed on an oak stump and very nearly sledge hammered.
Once safe from those threats, my attention shifted to a fantasy that
simply by playing music on my stereo, I was actually broadcasting 'round
the world. I dug through all the recorded music I had, made careful
selections, and spun a lengthy, eclectic 'concert' at considerable volume
with my windows and doors open (in the dead of a Wisconsin winter). I'm
sure Hendrix' "Manic Depression" was among the tunes, as it's sort of my
theme song.
All this before the advent of streaming audio...
In short, the computer survived the experience, but I blew every tweeter
out of four speakers. The remains molder upstairs to this day.
If I have a point - and I'm not sure I do - ever since learning the
(bare) basics of computer use, I have been (comparatively) stable... I
wonder what this says about the 'Computer Experience' in the aggregate?
A Lithium Eater
(Name Witheld By Request)
--
Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
(From the opening paragraph of Mark Twain's short story of the same
name):
"Well, when I had been dead about thirty years, I begun to get a little
anxious. Mind you, I had been whizzing through space all that time, like
a comet. Like a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot of them! Of
course there warn't any of them going my way, as a steady thing, you
know..."
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