Me: Computer.

Computer: Yes, Dave?

Me: Get me a book on cricket.

Computer: Do you mean sport or insect?

Me: Sport.

Computer: "Batting on the Bosphorus : a liquor-fueled cricket tour through Eastern Europe", available at Millennium Library.


Wow. Cricket sounds more fun than I thought.

(Later.)

Diana: Dave?

Me: I like to live dangerously.

Diana: Apparently.

Me: Now I don't know whether you're getting it or just humouring me.

Diana: No, I don't get it.

Me: In 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of the human protagonists is named Dave, so obviously the talking computer addresses him as Dave. Later on the talking computer kills everyone except, narrowly, Dave. So I like to imagine the Intertubes addressing me as Dave.

Diana: A strange world you live in.

Me: I know. My computer is trying to kill me. To say nothing of the liquor-fueled cricket tour through Eastern Europe.