Code Wants To Go Home

Happy Gilmore is a 1996 Adam Sandler movie about a guy who’s weirdly good at driving golf balls, and so becomes a golf celebrity even though the rest of his technique is terrible. I’m not into golf, but there’s a scene in the movie in which Happy&rsquo;s coach advises him to treat the ball like it wants to go home. (Happy fails to sink the putt, loses it, and yells at the ball instead.) I think of…