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I tend to pride myself on knowing lots of jokes. I mean, if you tell me the first line of a joke, I can usually tell you the punchline. I had a standing challenge in high school to folks to try to stump me, and it occasionally happened, but not often.

That said, I was quite amused to find two really dumb jokes, the kind little kids tell, the kind that I really, really enjoy, that I'd never heard before. Y'all probably have, though.

What did the zero say to the eight?
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What's the difference between roast beef and pea soup?
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Also, I invented a surprisingly tasty drink today. A shot of bourbon, the juice of 1 lemon, a couple dashes of salt, and fill with seltzer.

The salt really makes a difference. I was surprised at how good it ended up. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised -- bars use club soda instead of seltzer, because club soda has salt and seltzer doesn't. But I added more salt than would be in the club soda. I guess, if I used club soda, I'd use one dash of salt instead of two or three.

We live in the future, don't we?

Lis downloaded from a world-wide information source a few episodes of a television show. Sitting in the bedroom with her tiny laptop computer, she wirelessly got the information from Great Britain, and it flowed through the air to her computer.

Then we went downstairs, to our downstairs neighbor's apartment, where he wirelessly connected to her computer upstairs, with his audiovisual computer, and we watched the episode on his widescreen HD TV with surround sound.

It was Doctor Who that we were watching.

And now I'm writing about it to a forum such that people all over the world can, if they so desire, instantly read about my amazement that we're living in the future.