Claudia and Andres were walking through the airport in Atlanta, while I was here online in Iraq - a page opened on my computer to a map of the airport and another to a map of the MARTA transit with each route and stop expanded into its own map. I had a page open to the Georgia Aquarium all the while on Google chat guiding Claudia through the airport
"Ok, what do you see?"
"Duty Free shop."
Ok, then turn left, and go down the escalator, take the tram, go to Terminal D, get out, go up the escalator, turn right - what do you guys want to eat?
Ok - there's a place that sells soup next to the MARTA station. You are going to need $5.25 round trip - get the pass, it says here that it's cheaper. Take the gold line 8 stops north to Peachtree Center Stop, turn on Baker St...the aquarium opens at 9:00 - says here it's the largest aquarium in the world and that it's also in the Guinness Book of World's Records. It opens today at 9 - 6 - Adult entrance - $24.95 Child (age 3-12) - $18.95...and meanwhile she's snapping pictures with her Blackberry and uploading them onto Facebook so I am actually seeing what the soup looks - and the weather out the window of train on the MARTA and a snapshot of a hammer-head shark floating in the blue water overhead...
There was an article I read where Egyptians were ordering pizza online to be delivered to people protesting in Wisconsin.
and another where someone in Egypt named his daughter "facebook" -
and it dawns on me that we are in fact living in the future.
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