Last week I

lost a little yellow sticky note The Wife handed me as she left for school,

so I was late for an important meeting. When I arrived, a friend of mine

was sitting at the front of the room. As I sat down next to him, he was

busily tapping away at one of those new electric-think-pad-notebook-thingies

with what looked like a giant metal toothpick.

Throughout

the day, my fellow meetingeer tapped away with his giant metal toothpick;

imputing dates, times, and short notes into the calendar section of his

organizer. During the breaks he talked about his new electronic toy. "This

thing is great! I have my whole schedule for the entire year in here.

You can view calendars for the day, week, month, or year by just tapping

a few keys."

He went on

and on about how handy it was to have his whole day, nay his entire life

in the palm of his hand. "This year I'm going to be organized, thanks

to my new electronic note pad."

I told him,

"I'm gonna be organized too, thanks to my little yellow sticky pads

and my trusty #2 pencil." Then I asked him, "How do you input

the information?"

"Well,

you can type in the information you want to store three different ways.

First, you type the information on your computer and it will send it to

the organizer. But in order to do that you have to buy a cradle for the

organizer to stand in and a computer program so your computer can interface

with it. Second, you can pull up the key board on the organizer and tap

in the information with this. (He held up his giant metal toothpick.)

Third, you can just write yourself a note on the special electronic note

pad and save it until you get