#Kurt #Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:

"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man.
You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?

And so I pretend not to hear her.

And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

I meet a lot of people.
And see some great looking babies.

And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up.

And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is.

And, and I don't know.

The moral of the story is
— we're here on Earth to fart around.

And, of course, the computers will do us out of that.

And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is
we're dancing animals.

You know, we love to move around.

And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore

@cdarwin I will take this opportunity to announce that I will be handling all future book orders by phone and mail.
@nantucketebooks @cdarwin How does that change anything? On a phone you're still at your desk pressing buttons. I guess you move around a little bit when handling physical mail, but not much.
@cdarwin And yet here he proves himself incapable of seeing his wife right before his eyes, perceiving and presenting her as an ignorant foil for his manliness.
@cdarwin i loved the story, sometimes it seems as though now it's all wrong to just get out and move around
@formuchdeliberation @cdarwin I get up and move around whenever I solve quests in @streetcomplete or otherwise survey for @openstreetmap.
@formuchdeliberation @cdarwin Point being that it's not am either/or.
using computers doesn't preclude you from doing that. It just gives you an excuse and/or desire not to. You can still make excuses *to* get up and move around.

@cdarwin

In the Netherlands, some supermarket chains have special till/checkout for people who want to take their time chatting with the cashier.
Same philosophy...

@cdarwin tl;dr city life sucks