Why the modern world is wonderful and why I like where I live

[xiphias]

Delivery sushi.

I mean, isn't that a GREAT thing? You can go to foodler.com, and find that there are two different sushi restaurants that will actually just BRING the sushi TO MY DOOR, so Lis and I can be in PAJAMAS, and get sushi.

There has never before been a time in human history where you could use an electronic global communications system to have people bring you sushi from across town. Oh, I'm sure that wealthy and/or powerful Japanese lords could get sushi in their own estates even in late Medieval times, but door-to-door sushi delivery for ordinary people? That's pretty darned cool.

And those medieval Japanese lords couldn't play Angry Birds while they were waiting.

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[ckd]

What if the bird will not sing?
Nobunaga said, "Kill it."
Hideyoshi said, "Make it want to sing."
Ieyasu said, "Wait."
Xiphias said, "Fling it at the pigs."

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Thus it came to pass that, in the second year of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency, the Japanese ambassador presented America with a gift of 200 cherry trees, five angry birds, and a dozen pigs. The very next morning, the President rode out for his morning gallop, flinging birds willy-nilly through the windows of homes around Lafayette Square.

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

I love this whole thread. Wonderfully smile-making.