The part of me that is a former graphic designer

The part of me that is a former graphic designer is intrigued and appalled by this technology.

The crayon sharpener in the box of crayola crayons. Just thinking about it makes me shudder. As a former graphic designer, it appalls me to think crayons and sharpeners could be so

popular at MetaDesign. The presentations at the meetings were so amateurish, I swear some of the "Deesigners" were letting their kids scribble on a pad of paper. "Brut-design"

turned out to be a style wherein a child is fed macaroni and coleslaw and made to eat it very quickly, so they get full too quickly and get a stomach-ache. Then you induce vomiting

.... I didn't know that Dr. Spock's child-rearing guide was so Draconian. So, I decided to raise my baby by the Mr. Spock method. She learned the nerve pinch at two. Mind-melding

followed at three years of age, and on her fourth birthday she mastered the Vulcan salute. I won't deny my pride that her first words were "Live long and prosper", although she

was getting a bit obsessed with Star Trek. I didn't want her falling in with the wrong sort of crowd, but how could she keep her interests in math and science without being a nerd?

To me that is. She didn't deserve this. She was one of the rare girls who was both pretty and could speak Klingon. I instead aimed the magnum at myself and fired. I died. She

burst out in fits of hysterical shouting over my dying body. The irony was, it was in a Klingon dialect that I couldn't understand, and as my life slowly ebbed from my body, all I