As I recover from a weekend of illness and kicking myself that I didn’t get a flu shot this year, Wired Magazine reminds me that at least I had the internet:

I recently took a vacation and, in a moment of deranged optimism, decided to take a vacation from the internet at the same time. I left my laptop behind and vowed not to access the web, my e-mail or any other facet of the Online Experience until I was back at home. The following is a diary of that experience, primitively scratched on a variety of wood pulp surfaces using graphite… Day 5: I’m so starved for information I actually read the copy of USA Today left outside my room. It was like salt water to a man on a desert island. Who made the first cartoon with a guy on a desert island, anyway? Was Cast Away nominated for any Oscars? How much would a fake Oscar statuette cost? Are they even legal? What countries have laws based on the Napoleonic Code? Does the “leon” in “Napoleon” have anything to do with lions? And how did people settle arguments before the internet? I can’t imagine how many marriages must have fallen apart just because the spouses couldn’t agree on whether people from Angola are called “Angolians” or “Angolese.” Data! I need data!

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