Of Birds and Algorithms

Me: I don't want to write about the birds. This journal's called TragiCOMIC tales, and there's just nothing comic about a crippled bird* or a tiny robin egg on the ground.

N: (laughs)

Me: There's nothing funny about dead birds!

N: (continues laughing)

Me: Why are you laughing?

N: My brain is done. Hey... you should look up the..thing of the...thing.

Me: WHAT?

N: You know the...thing of the...

*** 5 minutes later*****

Me: The etymology of "algorithm**?"

N: Yeah. It's a stupid word. It doesn't look real.




*Contrary to what this post would have you believe, I don't actually hate birds.

**Etymology