Colleague: I’m thinking of taking a holiday in the near future.
Me: I went to the near future once. It was rubbish.
Colleague: When was that?
Me: A while ago.
Colleague: Where did you go?
Me: Now, actually.
Colleague: What was it like?
Me: A lot like this.
Colleague: Oh.
Me: It was good for a break, but you wouldn’t want to live there.
Colleague: No.
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Things are so fast now that when you are using technology, it’s totally justifiable to say “Slow, isn’t it?” if you can do so comfortably in the time it takes between your asking the machine to do something and it actually delivering what you want.
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July 20th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
See, now that’s a conversation! Was Colleague bemused? Amused? Irate?
July 20th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
Nonplussed.
This is typical of many of the conversations I have at work.
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July 20th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
My brain hurts.