Awesome Afternoons

At 4pm I like to sproul out on the grass looking waiting for serenity. Today's method is a mid-afternoon nap, which is the closest ill approach to getting high on grass. I have three books and a mild breeze to keep me company.

Light lover's chatter drifts from far away, friends descend brick steps, and it smells like fall. It makes me laugh. Why? Because I have discovered what technology has long tried to emulate. The majority of my time spent indoors is devoted to staring at new amazing technology or gadgets that are *drum roll* trying to be pretty. Pixels, features, functions; they are all just fancy dresses on different flavors of distraction. One day I imagine they will make a HD-HD TV that will be completely "life-like". I imagine the conversations between the lead engineer and the manager to be like this:

Eng: We have successfully replicated sunlight, the colors of trees, grass, and landscape. The pixels are so small that the naked eye can't see the pixelation.

Mgr: What about smell?

Eng: Excuse me?

Mgr: I want it to SMELL like outside!

Eng: if you want smell outside, why don't you go out?

Mgr: Don't you get it? I want to be inside, and I want it to feel completely like I am outside, but I don't want to actually be outside. Duh.