Automatic choke
It’s like road rage, except at the keyboard, says Amba:
A desktop is a minivan or SUV, a laptop a sedan or coupe, an iPhone or BlackBerry a sports car. The screen is the windshield. The keyboard is the gearshift and steering wheel. The engine is your brain. Slow-loading sites are traffic jams or stoplights. Don’t you curse and swear at the keyboard or keypad just the way you do behind the wheel? The only difference is, you can’t see the competing drivers and you don’t have a horn. Maybe computers should come with horns for the self-expression of frustration, which is how drivers use them 90% of the time anyway.
At the moment, I’d settle for a better windshield washer.
The one difference here is that you can seldom determine why it is these flipping Web sites are coming up so slowly, whereas finding the culprit for any given traffic jam is simply a matter of catching up to the front of the line. And if he’s been flattened like Wile E. Coyote after a plunge off the edge of the cliff, it seems churlish to yell at him: he’s suffering enough, I figure.
