Low Battery

We live in a digital world.  However, 'digital' is a slightly subjective term, as even the most advanced commercial laptop is not entirely electronic, there's always a mobile unit, in this case a hard-disk.  But even cooler about electronics is the battery, most batteries these days are either of the AA or AAA persuasion, or li-ion.  Li-ion is a Lithium Ion battery, I'm not entirely sure how it works, other than that two electrophilic chemicals interacts against one another through a baseplate to create electricity.   That, and that they can totally explode.  All I can remember on the subject.   

Anyways, I love that this is a thing, the whole "My book is running low on power!" kind of deal.  Its just awesome how for granted we take the whole idea of 'power.'  And no, I'm not about to advocate some green-style, "we're killing the earth!" spiel, rather, I just want everyone to appreciate how fucking awesome it is that we're deriving such applicably universal power from a tiny little cylinder filled with chemicals.  Really?  Explain that to someone 100 years ago, using their finely tuned lanterns and what not.  

Time Traveler:  What you got there, friend?

Old Timey Folk #1: Lighting the lantern so that we can see the way.

Time Traveler: Oh, Well hold up, I'll just lock a heading on my phone.

Old Timey Folk #1:  Your what?

Time Traveler:  It's like..... Pshhhhheewwww okay, its like everything that you'll know throughout your entire life will eventually be proven false, or re-established as something that you thought it wasn't, or redressed to become another similar belief, and this thing contains not only the fully inclusive recored of how wrong you were, why you were wrong, and what inspired you to believe in such whimsical fantasies in the first place.

Old Timey Folk #1: There's a gypsy in there?

Time Traveler: Yeah, her name's Siri.

Old Timey Folk #1: a name befitting of a gypsy.

Time Traveler: And you can look up the entire etymology of the word 'gypsy' while letting your porn load.

Old Timey Folk #1:  Eteh...mo... Porn?

Time Traveler:  Oh boy... We don't have time for this.

Old Timey Folk #2: Did somebody say 'Porn?'




Is just how I see it going down, because who doesn't watch porn, clearly not all the people who haven't invented it yet.  And I wish I could manage a proper segue out of this 'porny premise.' But nothings happening on that end, so let's just end on porn.