Back to school…
Yeah, I know it\’s only June, but I just can\’t wait to go to Target and get my new, hot-pink Trapper Keeper. And new pencils!
OK, fine, I haven\’t gone shopping for school supplies in years, and on the first day of my summer class this year, I didn\’t even have a writing utensil. Unfortunately, all the fun of the first day of class has been washed out of me, like sugar from a Pixie Stick.
But this is the last class I need to take before I graduate, so I\’m trying to have a good attitude about it. Yesterday I was up late working on my first assignment; a composition in Spanish about how much I don\’t like Jay Leno. Here are a few lines from a computer\’s translation of it:
We know since all, also it has an enormous chin! This chin should have his own ZIP code, or at least a number of phone. Sometimes, when I am looking \” The Tonight Show, \” the only thing that I can see is this tremendous chin. It is he eats that there is no any other thing in the television. Suddenly there is entire silence in my room, and the great chin appears, doing stupid pleasantries.
Man, that\’s so much better than anything I could ever write in English. Maybe from now on I should write everything in Spanish and then translate it back. Here\’s a little more:
But with everything and it, it is difficult not to make to notice that the music in \”Tonight Show\” is oppressive. And Kevin Eubanks, though he is a good musician, is so graceful as his chief, Mr. Log. That namely, it is not graceful at all. It is one of those who laughs at any thing, but he never says anything that makes laugh others.
God, I wish I was a thoughtless, algorithm-driven computer.