Predicting Amusement

Give me a standard-sized keyboard and I can touch type quickly and efficiently. However, on a phone keyboard my fat fingers have me stumbling all over the tiny keys. I type J instead of H and q instead of w.

Enter predictive text, where your device suggests logical next words . It's great and convenient when it works. But sometimes my brain has trouble evaluating the recommended words at the bottom of the screen and I click the wrong one. Then I have to go back and correct the mistake, which makes the typing take even longer. Or I don't see that I chose an incorrect word and send out something wrong.

 Today while I was waiting for the laundry to finish in the dryer I saw this silly meme

I decided to give it a try. I experimented with both my phone and my iPad to come up with

Kathy as the host yet


Keep at the house you

Karma and the horses you

Kathy and the house you

The answers were more nonsensical than wacky. Pretty much the story of most of my predictive text fails.

Five years ago: In The Zone