Fun with Wordles

I'm in the home stretch of my current WIP and decided to go ahead and wordle my 73k to see if I can divine anything:

WIP Wordle

Kissing Dragons Wordle

I compared my 73k of WIP vs. my 88k of KD in its current form. Appears that I use many of the same helper/beat words. In KD, you know there are lots of dragons (see, it says so with my big red dragon, and my big red dragons -- I also have green and blue dragons in case you were wondering, and one Baby, who can kick some serious ass :). Melissa's my main character, but since it's 1st POV, I wouldn't expect her to be too big; James, mr. cute boy, is her love interest, and takes up a nice chunk of screen (yay).

Interestingly, my main love interest in WIP does not. Also written in 1st (past compared to present for KD), Marcus's (MC) LI is Cynthea. Brianne, Sir, and Killian are Marcus's crewmates, however, and play pivotal roles in the story (both in terms of plot and character), so I'm not too worried (and I could attribute this to the fact that my MC is a boy and boy's don't think about girls as much as girls think about boys -- or as much in general :)... I could, but it would be a lie... Between all the asteroids and explosions and war, it's hard for anybody to find time to reminisce on the finer things in life.)

Ultimately, I'm not sure if there's anything too deep I can glean from these, but I sure do like looking at them (and wanting and knowing and something and heads and eyes).

On Steve Jobs and Cult Status

Tune in to the airwaves and sometimes it seems as if God has died. Visionary, Innovator, the Edison of our time, someone who will be remembered for generations. Steve Jobs was a brilliant man who led an extraordinary life.

Edison, he was not. On an intellectual level, there's no doubt Jobs was up there in the pantheon of greats, but from a historical perspective, I don't see it.

Two gens from now when Apple's a completely different beast (if around at all), electricity will still be flowing through the grid. Jobs's impact on the current cultural paradigm was second to none, but he was a facilitator of historical progression, not a generator. He never invented a product (besides perhaps the first Windows style interface for a computer), he just improved upon them by making them sleek and accessible (which is a tremendously laudable feat in and of itself). And, perhaps above all else, he made technology fun (which in some ways could be dangerous because it might saturate our dependence on tech too fast).

Some of the current idol worship comes from the immediate closeness to his untimely end and the fact that he passed when his company was almost the largest (by Wall Street standards) in the world (second only to Exxon). A man at the top of his game with humble beginnings and an interesting path.

But it also comes from the machine that is Apple. Since the company's meteoric rise in the early 2000s I've wondered what makes them so iconic, inspiring religious loyalty in many of their fans. Some think it's the quality of the product*,but other companies out there with quality products have sunk pretty fast (e.g., Netscape); others believe it's the monopoly that is iTunes (especially in terms of apps; this one's got some of my vote), the 'I'm cooler than you mentality' (a bit of my vote, too), and/or the mysterious allure about what the heck's going on behind their Cupertino doors (formerly at the forefront, a man of mystery himself). Or is it something else, that certain undefinable je ne sais quoi?

I don't know. It's interesting how these dynamics evolve, and also a bit scary (in a general sort of way; in terms of zealotry, following Apple or Steve Jobs is probably one of the best ways to go).

Thoughts?

* The wife and I have collectively owned a shuffle, two nanos, and an itouch. Except for one nano, each of the products crapped out within two years. Software, however, has been flawless (if annoying with all those darn update demands).