Tuesday 14 June 2005

Pic of the day: The transition into adulthood is full of surprises and thus potential for humor. Normally this fades over time.

Barely decent

Nothing interesting happened today, that I know of. I have been writing several entries lately, but they all look more angsty than intended so I can't use them.

My wrists are just so that I sometimes use speech recognition and sometimes not.

It doesn't help that I'm also simmering a new teen fiction. It may be slightly indecent, but much less so than real life for most teenagers. When I write humor, I find teenagers to be the easiest to write about. I think this is because of the nature of humor: The element of surprise, the sudden transition. For children new things are the order of the day, so real surprise is hard to come by. For teens, however, sudden changes are the order of the day, because they have to juggle being a child and an adult all the time, and it's really hard to guess when to be what.

Speaking of simmering, I recently read that women are not microwaves. The presumption is that men ARE like microwaves: Just press the right button and in seconds he is ready. I suppose that happens, but is it really a good thing? Now that it is no longer taboo to make medication that influences reproductive performance, wouldn't it make sense to look for some way to slow men down to the same leisurely pace as most of their female partners? Surely this would be preferable to speeding up the females.

Humans have weird priorities. Doubly so when it comes to procreation and the associated recreation.