Whatever happened to all the smörgåsbords? I remember when I was a kid my family used to go to smörgåsbords all the time. Now I don't even know where to find one. The smörgåsbords are all gone. They've all been replaced with "buffets."

Pfft. How uncreative.
 

The other day I was sniffing around on Wikipedia when I stumbled across something that annoyed me to no end. I read eBooks, right? Since I first started with it, I've downloaded thousands of books. I've got books of all sorts. I've got pirated, freeware, public domain and even a hundred and fifty or so purchased, licensed books.

A little over two years ago I bought an eBook by Cory Doctorow, the title of which intrigued me: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. The description looked fascinating. It's set an unspecified amount of time in the future. The main character, who's died and been restored several times, lives and works in Disney World where he and his companions maintain the Haunted Mansion ride.

Anyway. Cool book, clever ideas, fun read. When I bought Down and Out in The Magic Kingdom at eReader, I paid $8.50. I found out just the other day the eBook is freeware.

Fucking Michael Douglas. That prick charged me $8.50 for a book I could have downloaded legally for free.
 

I had a third thing. I completely forgot what it was. I'm blaming Michael Douglas for that too.