Re: ihate iboats
It's not fair.......
The only time I get to play here is when 99.993% of you are asleep.
It's 2:45pm here on a wind down afternoon before the weekend break after a hectic month end and I'm here on my own.
Talking to myself.
When you guys wake up I'll be asleep.
It's not fair......
Cheer up ol' buddy. We still got it good these days in spite of such things a time differences over long distances. In the mid to late 1960s I worked in a small village in the north of Saudi Arabia. No direct telephone lines. No personal radio contact with anyone outside the country. Personal computers, e-mail and the internet were still a long way in the future. Mail delivery either once or twice a week (I no longer remember which) and turn around time for a letter to the USA was a minimum of two weeks. It's mind boggling to think of the changes that have taken place in the intervening years.
OTOH, think of my great grandfather who was born in 1846, fourteen years before the founding of the Pony Express, and died in 1938 long after transatlantic phone service (via radio) was a fact. I've often wondered whether he ever stopped to think about the technological miracles he had witnessed in his life.
Having said all that, I truly believe that what this planet needs is some sort of time-warp mechanism so that we can all be on the internet at the same time regardless of where we are. And, so my wife and I in New Mexico can phone relatives in North Carolina in the evening without worrying about whether it's "too late to call"
