Virtual Illusions

• When you are counting objects, you go
  “0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D…”.
• When asked about a bus schedule, you wonder if it is 16 or 32 bits.
• When your wife says “If you don’t turn off that darn machine and come
  to bed, then I am going to divorce you!”, and you chastise her for for
  omitting the else clause.
• When you are reading a book and look for the space bar to get to the
  next page.
• When you look for your car keys using: “grep keys /dev/pockets”
• When you look for your homework using: “grep homework /dev/backpack”
• When after fooling around all day with routers etc, you pick up the
  phone and start dialing an IP number.
• When you get in the elevator and double-press the button for the floor
  you want.
• When not only do you check your email more often than your paper mail,
  but you remember your {network address} faster than your postal one.
• When you go to balance your checkbook and discover that you’re doing
  the math in octal.
• When you dream in 256 pallettes of 256 colors.
• You’re writing a homework assignment, and get the end of the line in
  the middle of a sentence, tack on a ”, and continue writing on the
  next line.
• You try to sleep, and think … “telnet xxx.dreams.heaven”

Computers