My God, That's (yawn) Amazing

Just watched a few seconds from Hulu, and it was really amazing in a sort of low-key way. I know, there's been video online for ages but this is, you know, movies and stuff, the kind of thing people pay their cable bills to get, and it's free. You used to have to be invited and register or whatever, and now you don't. I watched a few minutes of a pretty blah 19th-season Simpsons episode, and then a few minutes of Master and Commander, and then I said "meh" and started writing this. (I said I'd do some of my chores and I did, OK? Sheesh.)

I guess it's always this way with communication breakthroughs. Samuel Morse invents the telegraph, and what's the first message? "What hath God wrought." WTF? I mean, is that what you'd say? The first real commercial television showed, I don't know, roller derbies and Adlai Stevenson and stuff. Neil Armstrong, bless his heart, stays up all night with a legal pad drafting out what he'll say when he steps on the moon, and what he comes up with is "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Bo-ring! What's the message here? One word for the graduate: Content! Good content! Rattling good yarns, and so forth. Now I'm getting ready to go out and if anything actually interesting happens in the course of the day I'll be glad to report on it.