I am a driver who is perpetually lost. I get lost going places I've been to dozens of times; to wit: last month I got lost going to my university, from which I drove home on the weekends for four years.
People say, "You know how to get here, right?"
Sheepish silence.
"Well, you've been here, right?"
More sheepish silence.
"Shoedame, you were just here last weekend!" And here they throw up their hands and start mentioning landmarks. Well, do you know where the 50-foot grain silo is? With the robin's-egg-blue top? Teenagers spray-painted profane graffiti on it in bright red paint."
No response.
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My church participates in Operation Christmas Child. We fill shoe boxes with toys for children in the developing world. This year I decided to fill one shoe box for a boy aged 2-4 and one for a girl aged 5-9. On Sunday, after the special service praying over and blessing the shoe boxes of non-procrastinating participants, I figured I could fill my shoe boxes and get them to the church on Monday morning, muttering a prayer of blessing over them myself. Since my children and I were already in Wal-Mart on Sunday, I thought grabbing shoe-box fillin's would be no problem.
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The World Wide Web has morphed once again. What used to be called Web 2.0 has radically evolved, almost entirely within the year 2009, into a bunch of personal computing clouds shifting onto and over one another, as millions create their own personal webs. Now that a sizeable and growing minority of PC users has personal webs, mobile devices are becoming mandatory. By the end of 2010, mobile devices with online access will be nearly as ubiquitous in the US as they already are in Japan.
Have you ever wondered who your doctor really is?
