A few weeks ago, I was in a charity shop with my eternally-un-named friend.
A glass head was being used to display headwear.
I took a liking to it as a slightly surreal objet bizarre.
I asked the shop assistant if it was for sale.
He said, “No.”
Unknown to me, my eternally-un-named friend later found a similar glass head online and bought it for me.
She very kindly gave it to me the other day.
I was a bit uncertain where to put it in my living room for the maximum aesthetic impact of its pointless splendour and, on a whim, asked my seldom-used Alexa electronic assistant:
“Alexa, where should I put the head?”
This was the answer I got:
“Place the head in the freezer…”
Afterwards, I asked the same question to Apple’s arguably more sophisticated Siri assistant:
“Hey, Siri, where should I put the head?”
“I’m not sure I understand,” was her first response.
But, when I asked again:
“Hey, Siri, where should I put the head?”
… she had second thoughts.
And her answer, as befits Apple’s more caring Californian image, included a suggestion of the “Best direction to sleep, according to Feng Shui and Vastu Shastra.”
Eventually, I decided by myself, without electronic advice.
SO IT GOES - John Fleming's blog 
A great story that merits inclusion in any commentary on life today. You should send it to the New Yorker magazine – I once got $25.00 for doing just that with an item in a Canadian newspaper. (A Chinese periodical though may suggest how to cook it…)