Funny… it looks like Adam and I are the only ones who own our hosting…

So does Ryan’s excitement over the new computer. Not that he gets to use it, but because he gets the box when it’s empty…

Also, this is now the Pigott Family blog. All you non-members can just deal

@ grey one – Dad- you are right. Just remember this when you get the girls coloring books. I have always prefered a stack of clean paper.

Speaking of paper – PAPER BOOKS are going away. Look at amazon. You can buy a gizmo that lets you download books. I don’t know how I would be a student these days without the ability to take notes inside the book that I was studying.

@jacob – do you realize that we probably have the first generation of people who when you ask them what time it is they don’t look at their wrist first. I know that when I stopped wearing a watch, it took me a year to quit looking on my left wrist first.

Oh, well. Ain’t life grand. Smiling.

Writing is more than penmanship. Today we settle for gibberish and sloven tongues. Little thought in the intellectual process.

Thinking … Have you thought about how few people have and original thought? We want everything spoon fed. Children today need more empty boxes as gifts to let THEM dream and play.. Rather than some electronic marvel that does not stimulate the mind.

More blank sheets of paper to create. To reveal their thoughts. Let THEM work though the processes and develop. And not sit dumbfounded before a TV or video..

We need to encourage more to read. Reading permits time to digest thoughts. Time to underline and make notes in the margins. Canned media goes by swiftly and leaves little time for thought and contemplation.

This is just a short list……..I am sure that you can think of many more.

1) Paper tickets for the tramway and metro/subway. Now we order them by SMS/text message, and they’re valid for 90 minutes apiece.

2) The need to carry coins in your pocket to pay for your parking chits. (That same SMS technology applies here, folks).

3) Birth control pills. With the super-resistant bacilli circulating about the planet, even your committed partner will get you to wear a prophylactic, if you’re a male.

I’ll give it a bit more of a think and see what I can come up with…

That’s a good example of what is going to cause the next round- product convergence. TV sets become computer monitors and vice versa, cellphones are PDAs and music players, the list goes on.

But skills that are going? AH. I was going to sarcastically mention map folding, since GPS has digitized us (also, map reading, since the voice software is so keen), but I have a better example than that: Penmanship.

It needs practice and patience and who has time for that when you can type or text?