-Last week I found myself alone, disoriented, and holding a hand grenade.  I was alone because I had lost my friends on Bourbon Street in the midst of Triplet #1’s bachelor party.  The hand grenade was not an explosive, of course, but rather the famed half-yard glass full of alcohol exclusive to New Orleans.  And I was disoriented because I’d had four of them.  When I finally arrived at the bar where my friends had been headed at the time we got separated, they asked me how I found them.  I told them I asked someone for directions – forgetting that what I actually did was use the Google Maps application on my BlackBerry to locate my position via GPS, and then stumble off in the right direction.  Though full-fledged virtual reality may still be a work in progress, when we accidentally confuse technology with real life (even while hammered), the future has truly arrived.

-I often find myself ignoring people on instant messenger just like I would on the phone.  While I’m in the midst of doing something else, I absent-mindedly follow the IM and occasionally type: really?  uh huh… LOL! and hope those phrases make sense in context.   Sometimes I’ll ignore someone on the phone and someone else on IM simultaneously.  Now that’s multitasking. 

-If I’m not paying attention while typing something in Word, it will sometimes suggest then automatically insert a contact from my address book.  This often results in such eloquent sentences as: “I don’t have to drink to have a good Time Warner Cable.”

-Getting the multi-ball capsule on BrickBreaker is both a blessing and a curse.  I try to keep all the balls in play but inevitably get distracted and end up with none.