I wonder if anyone still uses blackboards on Election Night?
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Every day, it seems, I'm reminded I'm turning -- rapidly -- into my parents. This is not a good thing since one of them is dead and the other spends an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out how to save pictures in an e-mail. But it's happening. First it was not recognizing a single name in a Grammy Awards telecast a few years ago. Then last week, Jon Gordon sent me a Future Tense script to edit talking about Reuters setting up a virtual bureau with a real reporter who would be a simulated reporter in a game, so as to tell us actual humans what's going on in this non-actual universe. Huh?
Wait, it gets worse.
This morning, Reed DeLapp, one of our I.T. heroes who -- I think -- is a secret reader of Polinaut, sent me a link to a story about Google Earth starting an election center.
I don't get it. Of course, I don't actually have Google Earth (my computer is too old -- 5 years -- for such things) so it's a little hard to understand anyway. But it's Google and it's obviously cool and, no doubt, comprehensive.
At least, that's the impression I get from all the articles I've...ummm... Googled.... on the subject.
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