A propos that last brain fart of mine, consider the headline of the day from the WSJ:

Glitch With Satellite

Sends Edward Jones

Back to the Phone Age

All right, it's true that I am easily amused. I stood outside on the plaza this morning gawking at the Japanese film crew twittering around the space, a bunch of Tokyo hipsters like the crew on that Suntory ad in Lost in Translation.

Have we really even reached the phone age? When everyone currently alive has made a phone call, I will be willing to declare the phone age officially commenced.