We were having a nice dinner the other night, when something went “beep”.
It was just a little beep.
Just once. Just one little “beep”.
….. from somewhere in the house, we couldn’t tell exactly where.
The question that came up was, “What just beeped?“. Which piece of technological cruft had just sent us an audio message? I mean, everything beeps now. The stove beeps, the car beeps, the microwave, the cellphones, the fridge, the smoke alarms, the coffee machine…..the washing machine, the telephone. Was that beep just the cellphone beeping to tell us that it received some SPAM from the interwebs, or was it the smoke alarm telling us that its battery is dead and we are all going to die the next time I cook pizza?
DG thinks that this is a terrible situation, and that the FCC should create a brand new Bureau, called the “Beeps Of Technology” (BOT) bureau to regulate the semantics of all the beeps. If we had a standard beep for emails and another standard beep for the oven being left on it could save us a lot of grief.
I’m not sure how well that would work out.