As you know, when you win at Microsoft Solitaire, the cards start jumping off their collected piles and bounce across and off the screen.  Have you ever noticed that if you wiggle your mouse while they're jumping, they move faster than when the mouse is still?  I wonder why that is.  Any ideas?

(How's that for off in the weeds?)

Just as I was about to tell all, Bob beat me to the punch and did a much better job then I. 

Yes, Bob, very clever...but only as a diversion!  In fact quite imaginative to use (metaphorically) a "slight of hand" illusion to distract us from the real truth.  We all know that these cards exist in cyberspace--a medium that is on a plane with other metaphysical phenomena.  Since I am not a member of SAM, I can reveal the obvious flaw in your explanation and provide the real reason this occurs.  Since it is the cursor, not the mouse, that interacts, it clearly is the spirits of the entities in the face cards reacting to the pointing device (cursor).  We all know that such etherical beings resent being discovered and therefore attempt to quickly move out of the way of being pointed to while they bounce around Unka Bill's window to the other side (AppleLand?).

By the way, can you make some more of the candidtates disappear?  I'm really suffering from Rhetoricitis!  Thanks in advance.

~John

P.S.  Carl, when you get this figured out--can you explain magnets to me?  Thanks.

Geez, Bob, treatise?  You make it sound as if I went on and on.  Now I know my instructors always said that I tend to create "run-on" sentences of paragraph length, but of course I never believed them because we all know that brevity is bliss and if anything, I want to create succinct, clear communication whenever I can, unless, of course, the subject matter demands a more involved explanation or the detail is paramount versus the general explanation--assuming the topic is of critical importance to all involved; however, I always strive to get to the point as quickly as possble without inclusion of extraneous verbiage and...oh, guess maybe they were right. 

Bob,
He needs those breath marks to live!  Production may go up but the patient dies!

prestidigitation

Much better, you must really be happy now.
Anyway, thanks for your hope of luck, gotta get back to work now.

Hey, Bob, I guess magic, commas and productivity aren't considered serious.  Nevertheless, how do you know that Solitaire wasn't programmed to make the bouncing cards move faster if user activity is detected within the window (indicating a player anxious to get to the end of the bouncing)?