For about 14 minutes I was inconvenienced without computer or phone today. You see, I’d discovered an app I wanted — and one day I’ll use it — but I had to upgrade my phone’s software first. So I plug the phone into that great giver of bits, the laptop and call up the curious iTunes package. Click around for the right button and then discover that I must first update my iTunes program before I can upgrade my phone.
Sigh.
So I upgrade. My computer must shut down. This is another reason to not yet worry about computers taking over the world. So long as we require the software to reboot with updates we’ll always have a fighting chance. When the computers start to gain momentum, we must only convince them it is time for a new software patch and, darn it if you don’t have to shut down for it, too. And then we jump them.
Anyway, the computer shut down. All of the programs must be closed. And there was the first problem, as my computer seems to be the source of a time causality logic loop. My computer would not shut down because the programs were unwilling to close. And the error boxes that popped up only allowed for a program restart, which is antithetical to a hardware shutdown.
See? Why worry about a Terminator?
Finally I clicked through enough wormholes to shut the thing down. It powered back up nicely. And then I plugged the phone into the USB, the USB into the computer and activated T2000 — because iTunes is somehow tied to the computers who are plotting our end, if it wasn’t the thing would work better. So the phone updated, rebooted and I was able to download the audio recording app Audioboo — interesting possibilities, unfortunate name — and SkySafari. That’s the one where you hold the phone up to the sky and it tells you what you’re looking at. It must work and be awesome because it is two words jammed into one, which is the mark of all good things these days.
Spring is here. In the backyard there’s a tree that already has leaves clinging daintily to the branches.
In other news, I seem to be as smart as a computer that has played more than 200,000 rounds of Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Game Theory would suggest this is an unusual outcome because humans are inherently predictable and this is a game of random third selections. The computer, with that repository of other human games, should be able to find enough trends to defeat you. But I’m smart. (Or not. I found myself changing tendencies, just to try and confuse the pattern-seeking computer logic.)
You can give it a try, too.
Meat Lab today, where we bought a great deal of meat for a wonderfully low price. Also I broke three eggs, but the nice lady did not charge me for them. We bought 30 eggs, too, for less than $3. And then we hit Sam’s Club for chicken and then Publix for charcoal and buns. We walked there, and so we bought only the small bag of charcoal, because carrying 15 pounds of briquettes home didn’t seem fun.
Less fun:
This is Rainbow Bread, but also it is green. By this point we’ve all been trained to think of green=bad when it comes to bread. No one’s buying this stuff, not even on St. Patrick’s Day.
Even less fun is the basketball tournament. Taking over the television and I’m not even winning the brackets. Yet. I’m in fourth in one and seven in the other, but I’ll come on later in the tournament. Otherwise I wouldn’t bother, but The Yankee is actually watching some of the games. I don’t understand. She doesn’t care for basketball, either.
We are going to the women’s first round game on Sunday, though. The ladies from Samford are playing in their first ever tournament appearance and we have tickets!
