I started talking to the unix machine

Last night I fed it 2000 trees and went to bed. This morning, it gave me some feedback -- "the number of trees is probably not enough." So, I increased the trees to 10000 for the new run, and I asked, "Among the 10000 trees, which one do you like best, and when would you let me know?"

It didn't answer. But I knew it usually would take 2 days for the machine to have a careful and comprehensive examination for every tree.

As Claire once wittily commented on my complaint about how boring my work was: "Work is boring. What do you think we get paid for??"

Exactly.


Though I kind of like my friend Unix now.