Comcast has a new “SmartZone” thingy for email.  The thing that I wonder about, is why does it seem that anything called smart seems to be inherently dumb and stupid?  Take Comcast email for instance.  The service is way worse, I can do less thingys than I used to be able to do and I noticed that my bill is a couple bucks higher.  Maybe that’s where the smart idea comes in; name it smart and they up your bill.

Someone I know has a “smart phone;” similar to an i-phone although less expensive and less bells and whistles.  He would lose calls left and right, not receive messages half the time and one time his phone went off while in his backpack; it had dialed me and I kept saying, “Hello?...hello?” to no avail, yet heard him messing around and talking to himself about the cold weather.  Some smart phone.  Guess it wanted to hear my voice.

The “smarter” thingys tend to be, the dumber we humans seem to get.  It’s as if the “smart” thingys are dumbing us down.  And as they say, ignorance is bliss.  (Show me a vibrator that works by itself, no hands needed and I’ll show you a happy camper—moi.)

Some smart thingys really do make sense.  I just read three smart things about getting more sleep.  The article says that creative sorts are invariably night owls and that if we are up before 7, we may experience a greater level of the stress hormone, cortisol.  I like that kind of thinking, since I rarely make it to bed before midnight.  I also read an article on dumb things that smart people do, like not back-up their computer files. Recently I temporarily “lost” a pretty darn well-written essay on my daughter. C’est la vie. Hopefully doing a dumb thing will be a good lesson in becoming smarter. Not that the lessons aren’t pouring down like elephant tears.