This Ordinary Week: In Praise of Technology

I am seated on the runway of an airplane at Asheville. This is the culmination of a series of useful applications of technology. For instance, when I checked the guitar case I handed across the boarding pass I printed off earlier; he attached a bar-coded tag to the bag, and the total time that this took was less than five minutes, from walking in the airport to walking through security.

Earlier today, I listed a book about herbs on Amazon; it, as well as six others listed earlier, sold - I printed off the packing list, bought a $ 1.39 media mail parcel, and shipped it off. Then, I automatically had the money that the person who bought the book payed to amazon then payed to me, transferred to my bank account. That money will later be transferred to Zecco.com, which doesn't charge anything to buy and sell stocks.

While I was standing in line at the bank, because I drive the accounting office's bank bag to the Bank of America, I looked at email on my cell phone. Someone from ABYSA emailed about a soccer game that needed coverage tonight. I wrote that I couldn't do it. Then the lady at the counter gave me the bank bags back with two lollypops, which she oddly likes to do every time.

Yesterday I read an article on the NYtimes, through Google's feed syndicator, about the genetics of the Pinot Noir grape. I emailed it through the Reader to the professor of my genetics class, and he wrote back that it was neat to read that, as he just lectured about something similar in class.

Oops, time to turn this off. Go technology.