Saturday, January 08, 2005

Welcome to the future!

So what are you going to do now that you have arrived at last in that mystical realm of sci-fi fantasy? It's 2005 and there are so many advances weekly in all sciences that we actually, yawn, can't be bothered to even care.

We're mapping the moons of Saturn, developing ways to map consciousness, creating new breast implants that won't leak, inventing ways to get out of doing the dishes, and so on. Oh well, fuck it. Here's the future, big deal.

Anyway, I've been reading "Mind Of The Raven" by Bernd Heinrich, a researcher who has spent dozens of years raising and studying ravens. My friend Charlie Hornberger told me about the book, regaling with tales of raven exploits mentioned in the book. I've reached about page 250 and although it's been interesting, I was hoping for more examples of raven ingenuity as opposed to chapter upon chapter of raven feeding observations. But you should check it out regardless. It beats that shit you're watching on TV.