Wolf, obviously you don’t use auto- completion much… :-)

  • • Item 1: Alarm goes off. Groggy. “Hmm, what time is it?” Look to the upper-right of the screen. 7:30 am. Wake up a little more. Realize I’m in bed. Realize there was no screen. Realize I’m sitting at the computer, working, even in my freakin’ dreams.
  • • Item 2: Composing a many-point reply email. I finished the message except for one point I needed to think about some more, so I just commented it out and compiled the email.

Except, of course, you don’t “compile” email. They just get sent. Right away. So my recipient received a reply with one response point being represented by a mere sentence fragment.

Bonus: it was proceeded by a //.
Perhaps Time Away from the Computer Would be a Good Thing

If you were a frequent user of auto-completion in your favourite IDE, you’d've sent an email full of seemingly meaningless tabs and incomplete words…

De˽	Fra˽	,

I'm sor˽	 for the del˽	in answ˽	ing your mail,
but here goes:

;-)

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