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Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
I enjoyed reading your bowling entry because it gave a glimpse into your everyday hum-drum life. It reminded me of a similar experience I had while killing time waiting for a plane ... I slipped out to a neighboring bowling alley and was stunned to see whiz-bang technology had found its way to the lanes. I spent more time thinking about the computerized scorekeeper (and trying to fool it) than I did trying to knock down the pins. But I did bring something like 38 of them to their knees. I remember when Dad used to tell us stories about making money as a teenage pin setter. He'd take us back to Saturday afternoons in a simpler time when a fella could make 50 cents sitting behind the pins and manually setting them up between frames. He'd laugh with gusto describing the funny tricks pin setters used to spice up the game with a little 'human element'. Mechanized pin setters disgusted him. I'm glad he didn't live to see computerized scoring. Bowling alleys are probably a good living laboratory to see how deeply technology has invaded popular culture. I hope I don't live to see the day when you can bowl a real game with some guy in Paris at the other end of a high-speed internet connection ... but I probably will. There are responses to this message:
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