Today's "internet surfing"

still Jan 2, 2009

Today's "internet surfing": Going to O'Naturals for lunch, the one in the old bank building on Exchange Street. Reading the bulletin board. Stopp[ing at the biz card and local newspaper table. Picking up whatever looked interesting. Reading that.

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comments from Facebook, Dec. 31:
-- "Way to tailor your mental environment!"
— "You're crazy!"
— "but, what about if you need to know like the world's 10 largest deserts, or the name of that actor from 'Little House on the Prairie'??"
— "You are going to inscribe this book on clay tablets I assume?"
— "I'm hyperventilating just thinking about the prospect of no google, no street maps, no netflix, NPR podcasts, news and whatever else I dream up that I have to have..."
— "Dude, even the Amish have the Internet."

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I'm not living 2009 without the Internet. I'm just not on it. The very fact of the internet makes it possible for my family to live in this beautiful town of Portland, Maine. Without the internet and all it's associated technologies — representing the collective creativity and ingenuity of thousands of people who helped create them — we'd be living in Sarasota, Florida. (no offense intended, Florida - I need snow!)