I watch with utter amazement at the Internet. I remember when there was no Windows or GUIs, all text line...and we liked it!

Then an addiction like the Internet cost real money, services charged your phone bill by the minute, and the modems were dial-up.

Now the porno pop-ups and the selection of bizarre choices for free will surely bring the end to civility as we once knew it.

All  of this was predicted by a man called Kortron, from his hand-built log home of the side of a mountain here in North Carolina. I met him in a e-mail chain about UFOs, and became aquainted.

He insisted that he was the Commander of a star ship, and his physical body had been taken over by alien energy. He is dead now, passed away from this plane of reality.

There are too many stories about those halcyon days of "X-files" and Art Bell overnight on the am radio dial.

We all had it figured out, and only awaited our fate, knowing that the Truth was Out There.

I had an optical drive given to me after it was left behind at a business. We figured out why- the optical disc it wrote to was about $400, and held almost as much data as a current DVD.

The Commander was happy, because he could finally get the whole archive of his files in one place. I doubt if a current generation of machines could even recover those files today. And then I see a closeout of 4 Gigabyte thumb drives for $4 each.

The Aliens, who secretly work with the shadow government and are aligned with the Fifth Reich Nazis, still have not executed the plan to enslave Hu-Mans. All is right with the world today, and as for the Mayan Prophecy of doom for December 21, 2012-- I have canned peaches that will still be serviceable food well into 2014.

I trusted the Commander on his grim predictions of the Apocalypse, but if the Mayan were such good prophets, why didn't they see the Spanish enslaving them.