For many years now, while working with computers on a daily basis, I’ve sometimes had these moments when I’m just between sleeping and waking up, and I imagine myself doing ordinary things – you know, like making coffee, taking a shower, stuff like that – and the thing that bothers me in my sleepy state is that I can’t remember what program I need to run to do that.
I have this uncanny feeling that there’s a certain command I need to run (with unix pipes and all) but I can’t remember the syntax, and I struggle with this until I wake up; and it takes me a few moments to realize that I actually don’t need a computer program to do that. I don’t even need a computer at all. I am a human being and I can do whatever I want. :)
Or am I…?