Hi Maha, I like stories about how people feel about the tools they use. Especially creative work arounds and adaptations to themselves that integrate the machine and user in creative ways. My Dad used to ride the bus from Berkeley to San Fransisco every day, read the newspaper and fold it into the crazy patterns like hats, rude noisemakers and airplanes. I think it indicates a form of exploration and sign of a creative mind to go beyond the obvious designed use of a tool or a computer program.

It might be that “breaking” things as a child is an indicator of the world not quite matching their needs? A kind early science of things. With computers we can access types of people spaces but I wonder what we call that space that opens up around tearing a book? As a kid we broke windows and it seemed only the boys did it. Sarah would be able to tell us if this was a form of existential exploration or just fun:-)

A friend of Lindsay’s was barfing in the toilet at a party and dropped her cell phone into the mess. Her Dad, a Programmer soaked in water for a week then dried it and sprayed all over with WD-40. It didn’t work, but should of:-)