Today, mere hours before I am to get on an international flight, the trackpad on my MacBook suddenly has gone all haywire.<\/p>\n
With care and patience I can get it to move to where I want (if you are reading this, then I will have scored a small victory in that direction), but it takes quite a while, and the cursor will often leap of its own accord to random places on the screen.<\/p>\n
It occurs to me that this frustrating situation, and the immense frustration I feel in response, is a sort of electronic analog of physical dysfunction, a kind of technologically enabled Tourettes or Parkinsons.<\/p>\n
The difference of course is that I can choose to walk away from my computer, or use another computer entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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