Thursday, September 16, 2004
The Background Colour Gene
Tiger Woods has had a bad year and he's just lost his World No. 1 ranking. In an effort to assist him (by no logical means possible), I've this morning changed the background colour of my office computer monitor to a "Tiger Woods" background taken from his official website.
It was then that I noticed the previous background set by me years ago was a plain, turquoise-green colour. I chose it out of the (apparently) 32 million colours my office computer is capable of displaying. Then I realized that was not the only turquoise-green background in my life. One-half of the main living room wall in my apartment is turquoise-green. It is the only wall I've painted in my apartment. I chose the colour. It's a turquoise-green background to my living room.
Is that just a coincidence? Or is there somewhere in me, a gene who's only function is to prompt my mind to insert turquoise-green backgrounds into my life? Has the following conversation every taken place amongst my genes?
Gene A: Hi, what do you do?
Gene B: I make eyes.
Gene A: What about you?
Gene C: I do lung capacity. What about you?
Gene A: Backgrounds.
Gene B: Really?
Gene A: Yeah. Turquoise-green actually. Only turquoise-green.
Gene C: Any luck?
Gene A: Oh yeah, lots. He's only realized 2 so far though.
What other genes, I wonder, control my choices, from the sublime to the ridiculous?
Tiger Woods has had a bad year and he's just lost his World No. 1 ranking. In an effort to assist him (by no logical means possible), I've this morning changed the background colour of my office computer monitor to a "Tiger Woods" background taken from his official website.
It was then that I noticed the previous background set by me years ago was a plain, turquoise-green colour. I chose it out of the (apparently) 32 million colours my office computer is capable of displaying. Then I realized that was not the only turquoise-green background in my life. One-half of the main living room wall in my apartment is turquoise-green. It is the only wall I've painted in my apartment. I chose the colour. It's a turquoise-green background to my living room.
Is that just a coincidence? Or is there somewhere in me, a gene who's only function is to prompt my mind to insert turquoise-green backgrounds into my life? Has the following conversation every taken place amongst my genes?
Gene A: Hi, what do you do?
Gene B: I make eyes.
Gene A: What about you?
Gene C: I do lung capacity. What about you?
Gene A: Backgrounds.
Gene B: Really?
Gene A: Yeah. Turquoise-green actually. Only turquoise-green.
Gene C: Any luck?
Gene A: Oh yeah, lots. He's only realized 2 so far though.
What other genes, I wonder, control my choices, from the sublime to the ridiculous?
