The perfect place
If we could quantify every detail of every thing that matters to us in a living space, I'm guessing we could pinpoint the perfect spot for us to be on this earth. Start by answering some simple questions. What country do you want to live in? What region? What state? Urban versus rural? A view of the mountains? A view from the mountains? Lakefront? Oceanfront? After that, there are questions of weather: dry or humid? Average number of sunny days? Prevailing wind direction? Do you prefer morning or afternoon sun for your favorite reading chair? For your flowers? Next there are architectural considerations. Apartment? Townhouse? Tree house? Barn? Loft? Colonial? Contemporary? Eight foot ceilings or ten? And what about your neighbors? How close do you want them? How much like you should they be? How should they vote? How many children should they have? What do you want to be able to walk to from your perfect place: movie theaters or fishing holes? You answer ten thousand questions just like these and send the answers along. A computer reduces the data until, finally, there is just one place. Your perfect place. X marks the spot on a digital satellite map. At first you can't make it out. All you can see is the curvature of the planet. Some clouds. But then, just like in the movies, you zoom in, again and again, with increasing resolution. Now you can distinguish a continent. The familiar shape of a mountain range. An ocean. A big geologic hole in the ground. Two highways crossing. Another click or two and the outline of a city appears. A crescent river. Some public parks. A monument. Click again and you are down to a city block. A subdivision. A single house. There's one more click on the zoom bar. Finally, you can see inside the house. You can even navigate around from room to room. Inside your dream house! The house deemed most perfect for you by a computer that has taken everything into account. And now that you know where this place is, you can with 100% confidence state the following: that you are not living there now, that other people occupy your perfect place, and that they have done just horrible things to the decor. You hate them.
4:02:08 PM  Random Nonsense
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