I installed a new cool new screen saver called electric sheep on my Mac. It did not work. Whenever it came on it displayed a message to “Please be patient while the first sheep are downloading”.
Well I am not patient (as all my faithful readers know). When Andy and other people that saw the message asked what was going on, I complained loudly that the thing did not work or at least took forever. (It really did. At least a week or so.) Leilani noticed, and occasionally asked about the sheep. I assumed she envisioned cartoon sheep grazing on my monitor and a few butterflies flying by, and an occasional shepherd or sheepdog but did not really explain what it was, just kept telling her too, that the sheep did not work, and that I’d put on a new screensaver soon.
A few days ago, as I walked into my kitchen I saw Leilani staring at the screen, mesmerized by the dancing, morphing abstract animations of the electric sheep – when she noticed me she yelled excitedly “Mommy, mommy, the sheep are working!” I was really impressed that she could make this connection.
(Below and on the sides are a few sample sheep)
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