Off the new-to-me blog "test," is someone, unclear exactly who, who has English down, all the vowels, all the consonants, and a bunch of things to say with them.

The latest entry is on "Things of the Past," wherein the anachronistic and useless past -- as oulined in the cumulative pages of Wired Magazine -- are called and broken out. Hard landings, housework, chronic insomnia, all of these will go the way of contagious epidemics and nuclear weapons. No, wait.