Madame Bovary, reconsidered:

Look at the faces in the Times wedding announcements. What are they thinking about? Other than Bed, Bath and Beyond. Are they gonna die for love? No. They're gonna go to Home Depot later today and buy more crap for their apartment, then watch Law and Order. And Baudelaire: why was he always complaining? Poverty? Syphilis? He didn't realize how good he had it.

But literature is not for everyone. This author believes we should all become programmers (although there already is a sizeable supply and demand problem these days).

Isn't this too much of a burden for the average computer user? Shouldn't we try to force computers to adapt to us as much as possible by giving them user-friendly interfaces and hiding their internal workings? Shouldn't we be able to get on with our jobs without worrying about what is going inside the black box? If that is your attitude, fine. If you want to remain inside the dream world of The Matrix, that's your choice.

Woe unto me! Should I admit that I don't even understand the simplest MT CGI scripts?