The only way I know when the Superbowl is, is through the use of other people asking me if I want to go to Superbowl parties. Now, if you all want to come watch some hockey with me, that’d be different. I’m told I yell at the TV rather amusingly.

I never understood why people would yell at the TV during sports until I started watching politics, many many years ago. I found myself yelling at C-Span and realized that it made the whole process go smoother for me.

Hockey and politics: my two sports.

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I woke up this morning and my apartment was warm, which is never is. So I ran out the door underdressed for the day, as well as a few minutes behind schedule. Now, when I say underdressed I don’t mean horribly. I’m wearing pants, for example.

Wait. No, ok, I have pants on. I just checked. I would hope I would have noticed when I put my keys in my pocket and they didn’t fall to the floor.

Anyway. Yeah, so not really prepared for the day. So I feel a bit out of synch with the rest of the world right now, but don’t most people feel that way a lot of the time? So who’d notice if I didn’t bother to tell you now? No one.

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More and more people, it’s being said, are no longer wearing watches but are, instead, using their phones as clocks. Which means we’ve gone right back to pocket watches. Jackets have phone pockets, now. How long until chains come into style? I give it a year, maybe two.

Still, I wear a watch. I don’t leave my house without a watch. I like watches, I find them pretty, functional and helpful. I have time, right on my wrist. I’m slightly neurotic about time, as well, so it helps to have it in the fastest delivery system possible. I mean when I first read Neuromancer and read about the built in sunglasses, shit I didn’t care I just wanted a clock on my glasses. Holy shit that would be perfect.

If left to my own devices I tend to run early to most appointments. I can’t help it. I get twitchy about being late so I clear my sched up early and then I end up killing time and bored so I might as well head out and… you see how this goes, don’t you?

Yeah.

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From Yahoo News: SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Internet search giant Google has said it has begun combining online books with its mapping software to guide readers to places described in print.

Google Books has started to “animate the static information” in written works by linking location references to its interactive Google Maps software.

Clicking on words pinpointing certain places in books will connect readers to maps of the spots, according to Google engineer David Petrou.

“Why not visualize places mentioned in books on a map?” Petrou asked rhetorically in a weblog on the company website.

“Now you can. Fact, fiction, old and new, we seek to present maps when helpful across all kinds of books.”

Titles already augmented with interactive maps include Around the World in Eighty Days, War and Peace, The Travels of Marco Polo, and The 9/11 Commission Report, according to Google.