What’s in the Cards?
So last night we were sitting around the table and teaching a new player a card game. Now euchre is much like life. You know it goes by pretty fast. You have some things that are pretty certain yet depend upon things others are thinking and doing. You have other things that neither you nor your partner or partners ever know nor do you expect until the game seems to change. Even when we know how the game is played sometimes we get horrible cards and thus we feel powerless while others seem to get a winning hand that they cannot mess up. So if you want to learn about someone teach them a card game and help them learn that they will have to make choices that will have uncertainty involved some of which will work out and some that won’t, so it’s probably a good idea to mostly surround yourself with people who won’t kick you too hard when you are down and people who will respect you for taking a risk or two and counting on a little help from time to time.
Now learning to play with a table full of friends and family is a neat event to be a part of, however, of course you can learn by downloading the app and playing with robots, however will the phone smile and laugh when a good move turn bad or a bad play gets to be okay due to some luck? You see what we discovered last night is that. AI can’t hand you another beer and say “you’re getting it..hang in there.” Your phone can’t slowly roll the ace on top of the queen to save the day and nod to the other phones playing along. You see… humans win!
New phones that can do new things are nice…. And yet?—here’s an 8 liner… Welcome to Tuesday or whatever day it is Days don’t matter until we make them.
Is this the most amazing thing?
This phone will rumble buzz and ding
At anytime for everything
There’s movie clips and memes to bring
The stream’s a never ending string
But does it smile when children sing?
Smell like Lilacs in the spring?
Or just addict us to it’s ring?
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