Birthday

Happy birthday, bibliotrope!

E-hunting

Quite a few years ago, I read a newspaper article about a proposal to erect a movie theater outside Zion National Park, where people could go to see onscreen what they would see live if they actually went into the park. (The claim was that this would make the park experience available to those who for health or disability reasons could not stand the rigors of hiking about. Apparently the developer had never heard of videotapes...)

I thought then that that was the most absurd example of vicarious experience I would ever encounter.

I was wrong.