We decided we were not going to use the Internet for our trip since we wanted to travel inside the airplane. For ten cents you could have gotten a human being on the telephone and had a reasonable chance of going where you wanted to go. By this time other customers had joined the conversation. Just yesterday I had a conversation with a mountain climber in Tibet. But you are desperate to turn on the Internet to continue the conversation with the mountain climber in Tibet.
People tout the fact that the computer has replaced the newspaper.
Well, maybe it has. But you have to be a pretty poor businessman to pay three thousand dollars to replace something that costs ten cents. Besides, I never saw a computer that you can put under a dog when he does his business. JWR contributors Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder need no introduction. Comment on this column by clicking here.