Umm…ever hear of “car seats” for children?
I couldn’t believe what I just saw. Upon my second viewing I was cringing in my seat and moaning, “No….no. Oh…noooo. What the?! Awwww, man….” in absolute disbelief.
Excuse me while I quickly sneak into my son’s room and give him a quick hug…
If you think this scene is awkward, you should see the extended director’s cut…
It’s amazing what’s possible when you put your mind to it…
The best part? When the calmly exited the booth like a boss. Reminds me of the scene near the end of Battle Los Angeles when Harvey Dent slides out of the helicopter and lands on the ground with calm authority.
Some people might consider trawling the internet for hours on end to be a waste of time, but I beg to differ. The internet is a bottomless trove of information, and I’m constantly amazed at how much knowledge the human mind is capable of retaining and regurgitating at a moment’s notice. With so much information at our collective fingertips I firmly believe that we’re on the crest of a wave that, when it eventually breaks, froths and merges with future technologies, it will usher in a state of near-enlightenment for all mankind.
Before the advent of the internet most of us were forced to hunt down information in places called “libraries”, where one was force to “check out” books and return them within one week or pay a “late fee”. Oftentimes the required books were not on the shelves, whereupon you would beat a hasty retreat to a “book store” in hopes of purchasing the needed reading material. If the “book store” didn’t have what you were looking for you could order a book at the counter then wait for days before your order arrived. When it did arrive you then had to drive back to the “book store” to pick up your book.
Cumbersome, I know, but that’s how we rolled back in the day.
Nowadays the internet can answer just about any question from the comfort of….well, just about anywhere. No need for a Dewey Decimal system. No concerns about not being able to check out the “referrence” books from the library. Need to know who won the Battle of Hastings, what the Proclamation Line was all about, or even who was victorious at the ’94 World Series? A quick Google search and you’ll instantly have your answers.
The amount of information online is intoxicating and addictive. So addictive in fact that I find it difficult to go an entire day without logging in. Again. And again. And again. I feel a sense of disconnect when I can’t get online, like I’m missing something, and that’s probably a sign of sickness. But, like a junky, I can quit any time I want…just not today. I need just one more fix.
I find it hard to imagine that my son will grow up not knowing a world without the internet. The internet will be ingrained into his life, it will open doors for him that I never could have expected, and it will help to make him smarter than I could ever hope to be.
In fact, it will be so ubiquitous that I’m sure some day he’ll even be able to identify all of the memes that there ever was at a glance:
Today I learned that there is 3 minutes and 20 seconds worth of swearing in Pulp Fiction:
And still this is far less cursing than I hear from the punk kids who hang out in the mall food court on the weekends…
