Bug (Mar. 9)

The story behind the reason for computer geeks calling a bug a bug is quite interesting. It all goes back to one of the first computers that had a small short caused by a moth that made its way into one of the parts. Think about the word bug though. In addition to this use for the bug as well as the fact that bug describes insects, usually in an annoying manner, it can also be used to describe someone who is in the process of annoying you. This is why the term, as used in computer lingo, is so appropriate, even had there not been a bug in that first entire room sized computer. See, we get really upset when the computers that we use do not function as they should. Infact it bugs us that they are not working as they should. Even so there is some sort of interesting phenomenon about bugs. Until there is some reason for us to be frightened by them, they are a matter of curiosity. In the same way, computers are something that we will always go back to and when one bugs us enough, we simply buy a new one.