Peretz really wants to be friends with that gray cat, but as in so many tragic cases brought to my attention, outdated mores keep them apart. Fog has rolled in off the harbor, feeling more like myself.

What got me thinking about metaphoric terms was talking with someone yesterday about explaining the workings of computers to their users- I don't tend to go very folksy in my attempts to do so, basically think they're already about as close to purely intelligible as a thing is likely to be, designed that way in fact. The hard thing to understand about them is their complexity and if there was an easy way to reduce that further it would just be done in the actual implementations, not in explanations of them.

Really need to buy some new shoes.