I spent today visiting my grandmother in Muskogee, Oklahoma.  Muskogee happens to be most recently famous for electing a 19 year old mayor.  Hey, at least the job is unpaid!

While driving the backroads from Oklahoma City to Muskogee I got a call from Thad who's been fighting the good fight abroad.  I found the voice quality on the call I had with Thad to be quite impressive.  Here I was, in the middle of rural Oklahoma (the roads don't even appear on my GPS in my Acura at decent zoom levels) talking with Thad in London like he was right next to me.  Sometimes the 21st century is amazing.

I twittered about that experience.  I'm a recent twitter user, although I've been paying attention to it's growth in certain circles ever since SXSW.  Twitter is interesting--very shallow and glitchy, but definitely a social phenomenon.  In some ways it reminds me of lightweight communication a la ICQ.  I often miss ICQ.  It seems as though everything after ICQ was a step in the wrong direction.

"Back in those days, everything was simpler and more confused."  ~Jim Morrison