The pitfalls of science.
My father visited this past weekend. This is continuing an annual tradition that he and I have had for years; when I lived in Solon, we would meet halfway to go to a baseball game together in Detroit, and now that I live in Redmond, he comes here and we go to a Mariners game.
The Mariners won. :-)
On the first day of his visit, I sent my mother this SMS:
Me: FYI -- I accidentally locked Abba out of his phone.
("Abba" being the Hebrew word for "Dad", from the Aramaic word for "father".)
Two hours later, she replied:
My mother: How???
Me: He said that the thumbprint thing [to unlock his phone] worked really well -- it always recognized him. I said that this was confirmation bias, and that we needed to test *non*-examples to really see for sure.
Me: So then I tried a few of my fingers, until it locked up (suspecting a break-in attempt) and demanded his fallback password, which he couldn't remember.
Me: But he's taken care of it now -- he was able to unlock it using his Gmail account somehow?
My mother: Wow!
Me: I know, right? The pitfalls of science!
My mother: Kids these days. ..
Also while he was here, we went to the zoo, and so on. If you're on Facebook, my sister posted one or more pictures.
The Mariners won. :-)
On the first day of his visit, I sent my mother this SMS:
Me: FYI -- I accidentally locked Abba out of his phone.
("Abba" being the Hebrew word for "Dad", from the Aramaic word for "father".)
Two hours later, she replied:
My mother: How???
Me: He said that the thumbprint thing [to unlock his phone] worked really well -- it always recognized him. I said that this was confirmation bias, and that we needed to test *non*-examples to really see for sure.
Me: So then I tried a few of my fingers, until it locked up (suspecting a break-in attempt) and demanded his fallback password, which he couldn't remember.
Me: But he's taken care of it now -- he was able to unlock it using his Gmail account somehow?
My mother: Wow!
Me: I know, right? The pitfalls of science!
My mother: Kids these days. ..
Also while he was here, we went to the zoo, and so on. If you're on Facebook, my sister posted one or more pictures.