The Spider and the Spreadsheet

Most people see a spider walking across a piece of paper and they’ll probably put it outside, or squish it. I, however, take a picture of it. After all, how often does one see photos involving both arranged numeric sequences and arachnids? Not often enough.

I feel I should make some overly analytical comment here about the juxtaposition of our base fears of nature and our acquired fears in industrialized life (honestly, who likes spreadsheets?). Or perhaps the image of a spider invokes feelings of being trapped in a web, or by the web. Really, though, it’s just a photo of a spider and a spreadsheet.

[Edit: Upon closer inspection, this does not appear to have 8 legs and therefore isn’t a spider. Oh well, “spider” reads better than “insect”.]

Posted by tai on 2009-09-29 07:52:00. Comments (3) | Tiny link