Haunting the net [was: Re: [UA] Short Cons]

[Nick Wedig]

>Or spying on someone, getting all the
>highlights from a day of his/her life packed into a thrilling (or not so
>thrilling) hour-long episode.

I like the idea of an adept doing this to himself, perhaps as a way of gaining charges (likely, minor charges for a safe, sitcom life, sigs for a gritty, life endangering cop drama)  Making themselves more real by making themselves more like fictional characters.

>And this all reminded me of when I was a kid and used to sit in front of the
>TV watching static. After few moments of staring at the swirling dots I was
>able to see colors appearing in weird patterns. The funny thing is it was a
>black & white TV set.

I always started seeing patterns in the static.  One time, several of my friends and I were sitting around watching static, out of boredom, and we all started seeing the same letters.  "Hey was that a letter K?" "Yeah, and then a letter..."  I forget what it spelled.

The pattern recognition abilities of the human brain are amazing, if a little overactive.

Mr. Teapot
and his overactive brain

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