The Billiken's Bluff

during an afternoon nap, talk in background TV of Gerald Ford's 5 days of official mourning, kidnapped twins, cigars banned in the Capitol.




the nap, the dream felt like, looked like this...




in the foreground my dream involved searching through 7th grade for a quote, a book, i may have read that year. possibly Uncle Tom's Cabin. possibly not this year and maybe it was high school I was looking for, or some other book about slavery. the slave owners gave the slaves 1 week, or 1 weekend, or maybe only 1 day at end of year to drink and celebrate. they gave the slaves grain alcohol, everclear, and lots of it. the goal was to have the slaves debauch themselves to such a degree that they swore such things off for the rest of the year and were more productive. so it was written.

i was looking for this in my dream, half awake, somewhere between 7th and 12th grade, for sure, and decided that Google will create a search feature by April 2007 that will allow you to search for text, photos, syllabi, people, lectures, quotes from classrooms - by year, grade, hour, minute. a Google Desktop Search for your Junior High.

and next on the docket - a CTRL + F search for objects, people - RFID technology. every_one_thing tagged with a keyword and searchable, find-able.

I have a dream.