Pylimitics

Simplicity rearranged

unmonetizable content since 1997


Not my problem

“Patience,” my humans will tell me,
But I find that I do not agree.
If you ever collect your own humans,
Their slowness is what you will see.

They insist they must put their big coats on —
It’s their fault they have no fur at all.
Those humans can’t keep track of their items;
They just throw away tennis balls!

And the shoes, oh my gosh, let me tell ya,
This is one of the reasons I’m fried.
It takes them an age to put shoes on,
And then every shoe must be tied!

Then they tell me that I must be patient.
They can do what they want; I don’t care.
But I don’t think that this is my problem;
They’re just slow and their thinking’s not fair.

-Chocolate



About Me

I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer (among other things) located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. No surprise, she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.

Check out my newsletter, Artisanal Scribbles, where I’m grappling with writing, authentic human authorship, integrity, and the craft of beauty in the AI age. You can also find some of my old software projects at GitHub. Nothing very impressive. I mostly wrote tiny utilities in Python and shell scripts. I’m mostly retired from coding nowadays.

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