> I was on RinkChat briefly last night and it wasn't until I logged off that I thought about how I'd been enjoying silly conversation with people strung halfway around the world. All those "new" places like New York, New Zealand, New Hampshire, etc. You couldn't have done that just a few years ago, but now we think nothing of it. You have to love this modern stuff.

I certainly do. I was marvelling the other day about how I consider all of you people to be actual frinds, even though I've never met most of you in person. But I do think of you as my friends. The internet is neat, I guess would be my point.