![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
... that I had a plotbunny for a new novel last night, and it's very serious and grown-up and Afterschool Special and whatnot, but what first struck me is that what separates it from most of my other novel ideas right now is that there are no magically communicative pets in it?
Sep. 8th, 2008
Bwahahaha!
Sep. 8th, 2008 07:30 amSpotted on Not Always Right ...
(I was teaching a 60 year-old or so guy how to use the internet.)
Customer: “So… I can search for… ANYTHING?”
Me: “Anything.”
Customer: “And this will just find it for me?”
Me: “Yup.”
(We search for a baseball score, find it, and go back to Google. He clicks on the search bar again and “baseball scores” comes up.)
Customer: “Oh, it keeps a list?”
Me: “Yeah, so it’s easier to find the stuff you like next time.”
Customer: *disheartened* “Can I get rid of that? You know, like if I… you know… buy my wife a present or something and don’t want her to know about it?”
Me: “Yeah, just click on ‘Reset Safari’ and it will delete any evidence of what you searched.”
(The guy is clearly dumbfounded at the world of opportunities now available to him.)
Customer: “You just saved my marriage.”
(Enjoy your porn, Gary.)
(I was teaching a 60 year-old or so guy how to use the internet.)
Customer: “So… I can search for… ANYTHING?”
Me: “Anything.”
Customer: “And this will just find it for me?”
Me: “Yup.”
(We search for a baseball score, find it, and go back to Google. He clicks on the search bar again and “baseball scores” comes up.)
Customer: “Oh, it keeps a list?”
Me: “Yeah, so it’s easier to find the stuff you like next time.”
Customer: *disheartened* “Can I get rid of that? You know, like if I… you know… buy my wife a present or something and don’t want her to know about it?”
Me: “Yeah, just click on ‘Reset Safari’ and it will delete any evidence of what you searched.”
(The guy is clearly dumbfounded at the world of opportunities now available to him.)
Customer: “You just saved my marriage.”
(Enjoy your porn, Gary.)