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[rolanni]

So, I stopped at the grocery store on the way home and picked up a few things, a good bit of it cold, a few frozen items. When I got to the checkout line, I placed two bags -- one an insulated cold bag and one a thin, made-with-recycled-soda-bottles or something bag on the counter ahead of my order. The bagger picked up both bags, considered them earnestly, then proceeded to pack all the cold stuff in to the non-insulated bag.

Into the insulated bag went the bread.

*sigh*

However! I now have nineteen days off from the day-job in a row, which I'm treating for book-writing purposes as I Don't Have To Go Back EVER. It's not that the perfessers are a bad bunch, but they are a bunch and they do din in the head long after the day is done. Which speaks more to how I process people than anything particularly awful in daily interactions, but still... I can hear myself think.

How. . .pleasant.

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[keristor.livejournal.com]

Plain paper photocopiers. I'm convinced that they are actually psychokinesis amplifiers. You see, when they are installed everyone believes in them, and they work. Then someone has a bad day and the thing stops working -- after they see or hear that then everyone loses faith and it doesn't work for them. So they call a technician, who is convinced about his own ability to fix things -- and often it works for him without having to do anything! And does as long as he's around, once he's gone it stops working again. Unless he does something to convince the users that he's fixed it, that is, in which case they regain faith.

That is why the cry "but I did that and it didn't work!" is often true, when they tried it they didn't have the confidence. I 'fixed' a pirnter at work like that the other day, just opened the top, looked at it and told it not to be silly, closed the top again and it worked fine, it was probably just lonely and played up to get attention...

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

They are too smart to pass the Turing test. They know that if they did they'd have to file income tax forms, and probable spend all their time adjusting softflesh colleagues.