Observation

[dreamflower]

If a fly lands on your monitor, you can't chase it off by waving your cursor at it...just saying...

Comments

[aspenjules.livejournal.com]

ROFL!!! I can SOO see me doing that!!! *giggles madly*

Thanks for the giggles. I'm fighting another headache that's trying to start, and laughter is good for such things, right?

Oh, and another related observation: when you're cooking (in public, I might add) and a fly is bothering you, it's really not a good idea to wave a spaghetti sauce-covered ladle at it. I started to do that last Saturday, but caught myself just before splattering the 10 people standing around my food cart waiting for spaghetti. LOL

[dreamflower]

LOL! That sounds like something I'D do!

[lbilover.livejournal.com]

LOL! But somehow it makes sense to try waving your cursor at it...

[dreamflower]

It does, kind of, on an intuitive level.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

But did it work, is the question! *g*

[dreamflower]

No, the fly did not pay a lick of attention.

[addie71.livejournal.com]

Lol! Stupid fly!

[dreamflower]

*nods* It should know the cursor of doom is after it.

[ramblin_rosie]

Hee! I'd probably do that if I weren't awake enough or were too focused on something else... oh, the stories I could tell....

[dreamflower]

It just seemed the thing to do at the time.

[thunderatiger.livejournal.com]

What if it's a virtual fly? Would it work then?

(I'm bound and determined to make that cursor useful in fly-warding because I can see myself doing just that...)

[dreamflower]

Maybe. But not on real ones, apparently.

(I'm glad. It makes me a little less embarrassed to know I'd have company.)

[fidesquaerens.livejournal.com]

I wonder, if you had a big enough cursor would it work? Does the fly seriously get that the cursor is not a real thing moving toward it, or is it just not frightened by the small size?

(They pay me to think about stuff like this. Honestly.)

[dreamflower]

I don't know if the fly can even see it. Do their multiple eyes work on something that is flat and only one-dimensional? I've no idea.

(Nice work if you can get it! *grin*)

[telperion1.livejournal.com]

I joke about it, but philosophy (+ academia in general) is very demanding work. There's really not much money in the liberal arts anyway, and as a young person still acquiring the requisite alphabet soup behind my name, I am expected to do a lot of menial work. And it's brain-heavy work, too, which can be a bit draining and ego-bruising at time. Imagine having to be brilliant all the time... but I also love it, I get a lot of freedom and the work itself is fulfilling. So while I hesitate to call the work nice, yeah, deep down I know it is.

[elasg.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!!

Oh, I laughed out loud at that one! Thanks for the giggle!

[dreamflower]

You're welcome.

[gamgeefest.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I wonder if there's an app for that. ;-)

[dreamflower]

If there's not, I'm sure sooner or later someone will come up with one!

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I've done that too!

[dreamflower]

*high fives you!* It's nice to know I have company! LOL!

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

Oh you can't, can you?

:D

[dreamflower]

Nope. You really can't.