Perhaps the mindset of being in control, rather than the pausing itself, increased likeability of the program.
Murphy ran a few other games through it, including Tetris, and found that the program would eventually just pause itself rather than continue playing and lose, a tactic shared by annoying, over-competitive cousins around the world since 1985.
Once the ball is tossed, it hovers in slow motion while the movie pauses to reprise itself in a flashback montage that seems to last forever (20 seconds can be a lifetime).
"The tension builds naturally, the dialogue has actual subtext, and there's a clear sense of risk here that never pauses to telegraph itself".
What I found was like a charming Shakespearean comedy that hardly paused to take itself seriously.
A squirrel ran into the yard and paused to scratch itself, prompting Merrill to yell out: "Squirrel fleas!
This was the sort of book, I supposed, that would build its meanings sentence by sentence, pausing to gather itself together again after every period.
Like its hero, "Havana Is Waiting" is consciously self-conscious, always pausing to check itself out in a mirror of sorts and make notes on what it sees.
But as Google has grown, and the company sees the threat of others on the horizon, it seems that "do the right thing" may have been paused to prevent itself from fading like a Yahoo or an AOL.
Healy's vocals are often vocodered or multi-tracked, and he counts himself among the 50% of the band with haircuts grebo enough to give even Pop Will Eat Itself pause.
