Thursday, March 17, 2005

I like spider solitaire best

I confess I do sometimes play solitaire at work. Usually, but not always, when I'm off the clock, just before I go home. I don't have any games on my home computer - it's a Mac, and it doesn't come with the game module that Microsoft throws in for free. Oh, I think there's like chess or something, but really, it's not the same. Anyway, according to this article in the Christian Science Monitor, apparently some people find that on-the-job solitaire playing is a serious worker productivity issue. The story somehow reminds me of one of those junk e-mails that was circulating a few years ago [and I'm sorry I can't find a link or a copy] wherein the crew of the Enterprise (the STNG version) stops the invading Borg vessel by uploading the Microsoft 'fun pack' or whatever it's called into the Borg ship's main computer. This slows them down, but they eventually compensate. What does them in is a deluge of little space pods containing Microsoft lawyers in Armani suits trying to sue them for having an unlicensed copy of the upgrade. The Borg are wrapped in red tape and bled dry. The Enterprise crew all avert their eyes at the horror.

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