[UA] Where UA2 is RIGHT THIS SECOND.

[S. Ben Melhuish]

Greg Stolze wrote:
> I sent it off to Nephew via UPS.  From their website, you can follow it by
> putting in the tracking number 1Z61950X0323202676

Oo, not only is this very cool (UA2, yeehaw!), but there's gotta be a 
paradox here.

These days, we have a vast amount of information available to us.  I 
think you can go at least two ways from this point:  (1) None of this 
information is useful to you; you can't act on it, you can only observe 
it.  (Hasn't there already been a writeup of a school along these 
lines?)  (2) Information is like a drug; I know that the manuscript left 
Addison in the wee hours this morning, but now I need to know *more*: 
where is it now?  how fast is the truck going?  what did the truck 
driver eat for lunch today?  And the info keeps getting more tawdry. 
The more info I have, the more I need, but the less satisfied I get. 
Infomancy as pornomancy?

-- Sben

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