Phone books.

Pete Peterson summed it up pretty well in a blog comment to the last blog I wrote, saying something like, "oh you must be pretty bored, cuz when I'm bored that's when I start imagining physical injury." It is true. I am pretty bored. Or maybe I have just become boring. Or maybe nothing.

Maybe a lot of stuff. My finger was bleeding earlier. I don't remember catching it on anything, but I was typing and I noticed that blood was running down the keys and onto my desk. Not a lot of blood so I didn't really consider going to the ER, but enough blood to have to get up and wash the cut and get a band-aid. I got up and went into my boss's office and grabbed a band-aid and some neosporin. I globbed the neosporin all over my middle finger and put on the band-aid. The band-aid didn't stick to well because I put on way too much neosporin, but in today's world you can never be too careful. Like, what if my cut was caused by peanut butter and anthrax. Or maybe I cut it on a rusty paperclip. Too many things to worry about.

When I got to work today there was a phone book on my chair in my work station. I didn't know why we got a phone book because we have the internet, and I told my coworker that. I said "We have the internet, we don't need a phone book." So now I am sitting on the phonebook. It's sort of weird, but I have to make my statements someway or another. Sitting on the phone book got me thinking. You know how when kids are little and they are at a restaurant and they don't have child booster seats, the staff'll grab a couple of phone books and the munchkins will sit on them? Well, in the near future when phone books become obsolete, what is going to happen to kids who can't reach the table cuz they are so small? Like you go to Chili's or something and you bring your little kid along and you ask for a booth and a booster seat, but the hostess is like oh all the booster seats are currently being used, and then you go "Oh, that's fine, just grab a few phone books, Johnny doesn't care" and then the Hostess freaks some more and goes "Oh, they dont make phone books anymore." That's when we'll realize how awful the internet really is. You can't sit on the internet. And that means the kids won't be able to reach their food. Kids'll starve thanks to the internet. The internet is worse than peanut butter I think, honestly.

Maybe that's a stretch of an idea. But I think magazines are going to disappear in the next few hours. I know Time had a huge layoff because they can't compete with the internet. Which is a shame, because I really enjoy magazines. I don't even know why I subscribe to them because I read maybe one article per issue, but I still feel it's worth it, even though I probably read about 40-50 internet articles a week. I think I got to make a spreadsheet about all this stuff.

Finally, I do give Rome the recommendation. The first 3 or 4 episodes I wasn't feeling it because I didn't know what anyone was talking about it, but by episode 5 or 6 when Caesar tears Egypt up, I'm like yup, this is something I can recommend. I just realized this show came out in 2005 though, so everyone probably has already seen it and forgotten about it. That's fine.

Go memorize the phone book while you still can.

-sXe.