Okay, you people. Just cuz I’m posting an entry doesn’t mean you’re off the hook on the last entry. But I figure this blog needs a little levity right now. (Mr. W walked into the room yesterday after I’d just finished re-reading my last post, and I turned and looked at him with large, haunted eyes. He laughed. “Why do you look so sad?” “I scared myself,” I whimpered.)

I’m flipping through the most current The Sharper Image catalog, and I see an ad for NEW: 20Q Electronic Questions Game. You’re supposed to “secretly think of an object and the amazing 20Q electronic party game will read your mind! Just answer ‘yes,’ ‘no,’ ‘sometimes,’ ‘rarely’ or ‘unknown’ to a series of 20 questions.” So this game is supposed to narrow down whatever the thing is you’re thinking thru its huge database based on your answers, and tell you in 20 questions or less what you’re picturing in your head.

I’ve played with this in a game store last Christmas. It doesn’t work. I went through the questions, and in the end, it either suggested something totally wrong, or had a message that it couldn’t figure out what I was thinking of. “This doesn’t work,” I complained as Mr. W walked by and looked over my shoulder.
“What object were you thinking of?” he asked.
“Endoplasmic reticulum,” I said.
He rolled his eyes and left me behind.