Control-Alt-DeBeep

As to why I bother trying to work or read beyond an unhealthy skimming of headlines on my pocket behavior modification device in waiting rooms and/or hospital rooms – those temples of lacking control and hurry up and wait – I haven’t a clue: it never works out; it just works me up – too many possibilities to entertain.

“There is no point in getting angry at events; they are indifferent to our wrath.”

Plutarch, via Montaigne.

Actually, I do know why – or think I know why: an attempt to inser...