Was talking to the guy who lives next door over the fence earlier today, where we had an interesting discussion about locks. My new front door goes in next week, you see, and I still haven't decided how to secure it.

Thing is, we quickly went from discussing deadlocks to thumb-print scanners, remote controlled locks and whether or not to hookup motion activated cameras around the perimeter of our properties.

Welcome to the 21st century, I thought.

This set me to thinking about how much life has changed in the last few years, which inevitably led me to create yet another wretched list.

Look away now, if you can't bear the thought of it...hehehe

Top10 indicators that I am living in the 21st century

1. I have to surf through 300 channels with the remote before deciding there's nothing to watch on TV.
2. The quality of a TV show is now determined by how long it takes a network to ax it. One season means good. Less means it was probably brilliant.
3. Movies now come in threes
4. Threequel is a word
5. You're nobody until you've got your own reality show, launched your own perfume or been on Dancing with the Stars.
6. More people think HP stands for Harry Potter, than Hewlett Packard
7. Water costs more than petrol
8. "Phone a friend" doesn't mean you want to phone a friend, it means "I don't know".
9. We call global warming "climate change" now, because that way it doesn't sound like it's anybody's fault
10. They've found a use for botulism

And, to top it all off, if you don't like the life you have, you can make up another one in Second Life...

Wonder what the 22nd century's gonna be like...

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Palace of Impossible Dreams word count

111,532 / 165,000 (67.6%)

Ahhh. Here's a further case of the generational gap. If you were to ask my father-in-law what HP was he would tell you it was the name of a type of sauce.

Anyone care to predict when 'The Spike' is going to happen ... or are we already there?

"The Spike?" Nah, we're not quite there yet. Depending on just how prohibitive things like global warming and miscellaneous wars turn out to be, maybe it won't happen.

Optimist!

The Spike? I only know of 2 Spikes....Spike Lee and Spike Channel. I must be missing something.

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