You got your key from the place where you keep it, put it in the lock, and let yourself in. There is the familiar and yet still irritatingly urgent beeping of the burglar alarm, you have just thirty seconds to enter the correct code before all hell lets loose. You don’t want that...
But I had to be the one giving it priority — it has to be more important than that Leaf Blower, or in my case last night at my talk, in the continual beeping of someone’s i-phone set on some alarm that they didn’t realize and didn’t recognize. It wasn’t until I was finis...