By now you've probably seen this image...
...and like me and millions of others you've felt nostaligic about using a pen to rewind a tape when it got tangled up...Proof we're all impressionable.
Surely the connections between these two items are manifold? numerous? plentiful?
But we ALL see the same connection.
Not, for example:
- they're both made from plastic...
- they both record data
- they were both invented in the 20th century
- they're both portable
- neither one can be used for its intended use on its own
etc...etc...
This is because we are all conditioned to think a certain way - we excel at spotting facial patterns (Even on Mars!), but we suck at spotting smelling mistakes (OK, I bet you BOTH saw that one!)
Here's one more example...what is the next number in this sequence?
9 8 7 6 5 4 ...
It could be anything! For example, a phone number: 987-6549...
So if you remember spinning tapes on pens, or doing online IQ tests, and you feel chuffed - you should be, you are proving yourself superior at thinking INSIDE a square (Well, maybe a hypercube?)
All else would be Anarchy (And All Else Is Entropy)
Ah, the cassette tape and the pen.
ReplyDeleteDo you think, when they first designed the cassette, it was made to fit the ballpoint?
Or is it just a lucky coincidence?
5th try - no pith thith time...
ReplyDeleteOK - got it sussed. You set everything up to automatically log you on, then a banana farmer in Paraguay steps on a butterfly turd, and so Blogger log you off (Why does geekspeak always sound so masturbatoryish?), but you don't know, because you're going blind as your midlife weight bomb glaucomises your eyeballs into translucent tennis balls, so you merrily do, as you always have, and type your disputation to your eager fans (Yes, both of them...), but it seems to vanish, and when you click publish, you get taken bake to Blogger's sign on to verify you are the raving nut at number 323, but when you log on, your humourous repartie is gone...you do this 4 times, finally, you get frustrated, so you put down something stupid and witless, like "5th try - no pith thith time..." - and as you shake with rage and justifiable pistofiness, THAT message goes thorugh perfectly ok!!!!!
DeleteAnd yes, the pen fitting the tape thing....no idea.
"Serendipity rarely happens by chance" - Albert Eistein, posthumously...
If not masturbatoryish, then obsessed with excrement.
DeleteData download, processor pipeline stall and core dump.