a Musing;
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Are you getting tired of the "exactness" of computers?
How do they compare to you other work associates?
Too much relating to a PC and not enough development/maintenance of those human interaction skills!
Idea (main);
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Build up the basic human interaction skills, required to use a computer.
This can be implemented as an optional theme.
Many more ideas on this main idea;
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1) Maintain those "manners" skillbase.
The computer gets the weather from the weather website. Oh it's cold! - in two hours at the rate of 5 per hour (say) "a-tissue" (the screen may wobble).
Work is able to be resumed faster if the user says "bless you" or "Gazuntheit", or hits a shorctut key to that effect.
Some few hours latter "cough cough", same reaction again.
2) Similar situation to (1) if the PC had baked beans for breakfast and is making embarrassing noise.
3) You can type in the words, and spelling mistakes get detected (so it's actually OK), but the computer has problems typing the letters on screen correctly or the right way round. Even the fonts might change from time to time.
4) The mouse may get a touch of the nerves, and need some gentle soothing motions to calm down, especially if the keyboard has been taking a beating, for the last five minutes.
5) The screen could go dim, from time to time. Your elderly PC will see better if you turn up the light dimmer with a few turns of your mouse wheel.
6) text to speech could suffer speech impoediments sutsh as stututerink, and lithpth..th..th , weely weow pwununssed verds, da hypop rapz way oph tork'n.
7) The printer is a bit of a clutz at times and suffers from simulated paper jams where the printing comes out on angles, some lines get a simulated crease between them.
Oh and the PC keeps forgetting to replace the ink cartridges (simulated ink shortage).
8) The sound system can be crackly at times, and it may even need to be told "beg your pardon" if you need something repeated.
9) It could detect the presence of workmates (webcam, or mic) and great them, if you do not great them within a short time. So if you want to quietly convey that you are in a grumpy no talking mood, you PC can be cheeky and show you up as grump.
10) webcam can detect uncombed hair, and PC says "honey, you need to comb your hair". And then you Need to comb it, or you'll be making your own next coffee.
11) Mike detects particular words, and warns you of your "fowl language quotient" rising to abnormally high levels.
12) Phone conversations get monitored for voice levels and frequency content. "ooh that sounded a bit stressful - let me play you some soothing music. La dah dee dah, dump dump... scratch scratch, squeak squeak" (Sharrrdarrrp).
or
What ever other responses may seem appropriate.
13) PC PC monitoring of entered text - with feedback comments re "fowl language quotient", and various other indentifier quotients.
14) Office Pcs with speakers and Mics could begin with furtive sounds, or giggles, and start talking while you are trying to work. It might be gossip, grumbling, or childs play ... but it's a distraction. What will you do about it's impact of office productivity? - send an email to the chief PC in charge of office PCs? Will IT listen to you anyway - you Humanist!!!
15) Sometimes you may be required to "mollycoddle" your PC.
After all, how would you know what it is like to suffer from aching "key"th!? This is no time for unK-ooth comments - you must be nice. And pretend to get in touch with the "K-ooth" fairy (who costs alot to hire for PC birthday parties).
Anyway, hope this has made your days a little more fun, tweaked a few neurons, and got some imaginations going.
We need to free humans from being the only ones that make mistakes and are unreliable.
After all, what would the world be like, if Ubuntu was more perfect than humans?
