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I don't always like to vacation with my laptop, because it means that I'm all too likely to fritter away my time surfing the internet (like I do many of the hours of my regular life). Without it, though, I'm all too keenly aware of how frequently I use it as a reference or a resource -- yesterday, I discovered the Yellow Pages for the first time while trying to locate a particular store sans internet.

Or, you have a scenario like yesterday, at the Marine Center, staring at a tank full of jellyfish along with some onlookers: "How do jellyfish reproduce, anyway?"

Insert 24 hours of wild speculation and vaguely-remembered placards from the Monterey Bay Aquarium here.

(I've been on vacation, by the way. More later.)