Many years ago I wrote myself a personal script which checked several different locations where there might be new stuff for me to read. (Check my trad-Unix inbox for mail; check the local NNTP server for new Usenet news; maybe check some RSS feeds, depending on decade; other more specific things with their own API.) It wasn't very profound: just a wrapper on a bunch of smaller check commands I had anyway, running all of them in one go.

What do you call that script? Its job was to find me something, _anything_, new to read, so I thought 'bored' was an appropriate name. But I overlooked a risk of calling it that.

You know that thing in instant messaging (anything from IRC to Slack) where people have focus in the wrong window and send messages like 'ls' to all their colleagues or friends? Well, if someone in the channel is in the middle of talking about something, you _especially_ don't want to respond 'bored' just because you had focus in the wrong window.