all your base are belong to us...

you know, every day i see some type of evolution of technology. on the one hand, it's incredibly bad-assed (like how i can mapquest a road map from my blackberry, which is very useful because i roadtrip like five to eight times in a year).

on the other hand, it's freaky. big brother could be spying on me from my macbook (in that case, all the girls in the photos ARE OVER 18 ;) ), someone can ALWAYS be in contact with me via laptop (email, facebook, myspace, AOL instant messenger) or by cell phone (phone calls, text messages, email sent to my phone from my mizzou account), and finally it's such a drain on our time.

i feel sorry for anyone born later than, say 1989 because i doubt they remember what life was before nearly every american home had a laptop and steve jobs/bill gates were battling for our attention spans. i'm 22 years old and my 10 year old cousin can build a webpage better than i can. i'm pretty sure the health conscious can now blame childhood obesity on computers too because kids spend an ungodly amount of time in front of a computer screen instead of outside tossing a football, riding a bike or flying a kite (man, it's been forever since i tried to fly a kite). but then again, i'm guilty of spending too much time on the computer (especially facebook since they started installing all these crazy ass applications, damn you mark zuckerberg!).

i feel like taking up dr. ronci's challenge like i did last summer. there would be up to three days at a time where i would leave my cell phone off and my laptop off. those were good times because i would be so relaxed just sitting on my couch having a smoke, doing a sudoku and watching my law and order mini-marathons. it's nice knowing that you can control who can contact you and who can't.

to sum this all up, i am reminded of a line from my favorite cartoon character huey freeman from the boondocks: "Just think...we could all be reading a book right now."

in fact, i hear Helter Skelter by Bugliosi calling to me. y'all should read it. it's an account of the manson family and the tate/labianca murders from the prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's point of view. manson was a nutter butter but it's a very interesting study in psychology.

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: "Virtual Insanity" by Jamiroquai (how fitting...)